2012 Storage Developer Conference Agenda

2012 Storage Developer Conference Agenda

The 2013 SDC agenda is under development. In the meantime, please see the 2012 agenda below.

Agenda times are subject to change.

Monday, September 17, 2012
7:30- 8:45	Continental Breakfast and Networking
7:30	Registration Opens
	Cloud	Solid State	File Systems	Hardware	SMB/2/3
8:30- 9:20	Cloud File System and Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) Parag Kulkarni VP Engineering, Calsoft Inc.	PCI Express Impact on Storage Architectures and Future Data Centers Ron Emerick Principal Hardware Engineer, Oracle Corporation	Archive eXchange Format (AXF) - An Open Standards-Based Approach to Long Term Content Archiving and Preservation Brian Campanotti CTO, Front Porch Digital	Energy Efficiency Metrics for Storage Herb Tanzer Storage Hardware Architect Hewlett Packard Co. Chuck Paridon Storage Performance Architect Hewlett Packaard Co.	Linux CIFS/SMB2 Kernel Clients - A Year In Review Steven French Senior Engineering, IBM
9:30- 10:20	Open Source Droplet Project Update with S3 and SNIA CDMI Support Giorgio Regni CTO, Scality Philippe Nicolas Director Product Strategy, Scality	How Many IOPS is Enough Thomas Coughlin President, Coughlin Associates	Object Oriented Storage and the End of File-Level Restores Stacy Schwarz-Gardner Strategic Technical Architect, Spectra Logic	Getting the Most from Your Hadoop Nodes Gus Malek-Madani CEO and Founder, Green Platform Corporation	Multiuser CIFS Mounts Jeff Layton Sr. Software Engineer, Red Hat
10:20- 10:35	Break
10:35- 11:25	Overcoming Challenges & Best Practices for Interoperability Testing of CDMI Udayan Singh Lead SPE-Storage & Platform and Lead Innovate@HiTech, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.	I/O Virtualization – Enabling New Architectures in the Data Center for Server and I/O Connectivity Sujoy Sen Senior Manager - Software Architect, Micron Technology	Scalable, reliable, and Efficient Object Storage for Hadoop Greg Dhuse Senior Software Architect, Cleversafe, Inc.	Tiered Storage and Caching Decisions Bob Griswold Director of Industry Software Architecture, Western Digital Corp.	SMB 3.0 ( Because 3 > 2 ) David Kruse Principal Software Development Lead, Microsoft Corporation
11:35- 12:25	CDMI Extensions David Slik Technical Director, Object Storage, NetApp	NVM Express - Delivering Breakthrough PCIe SSD Performance and Scalability Paul Luse Software Architect Development Lead, Intel	Implementing HDFS as a Protocol on OneFS Jeff Hughes Sr Engineering Manager, EMC Isilon	InfiniBand Technology and Usage Update Erin Filliater Enterprise Market Development Manager, Mellanox Technologies	Understanding Hyper-V over SMB 3.0 Through Specific Test Cases Jose Barreto Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation
12:30- 1:30	Lunch (Terra Courtyard)
	Cloud	Solid State	File Systems	Virtualization	SMB/2/3
1:30- 2:20	CDMI Federations, Year 3 David Slik Technical Director Object Storage, NetApp, Inc.	Programming Models to Enable Persistent Memory Andy Rudoff Enterprise Storage Architect, Intel	Scaling an Index to the Exabytes Andrew Baptist Lead Architect, Cleversafe, Inc.	Making a Virtualized Storage System Into Storage for Virtual Platforms – One Company’s Journey Lazarus Vekiarides Executive Director of Software Engineering Enterprise Storage, Dell	Continuously Available SMB – Observations and Lessons Learned David Kruse Principal Software Development Lead, Microsoft Corporation Mathew George Principal Software Developer, Microsoft
2:00- 3:00	Tech Field Day Roundtable (Mezzanine)
2:30- 3:20	CDMI Support for Object Storage in Cloud storage Padmavathy Madhusudhanan Technical Manager, Wipro Technologies	Exploiting the Benefits of Direct Native Programming Access to Non-Volatile Memory Devices Ashish Batwara Principal Storage Architect, Fusion-io	What the Evolving Apache Hadoop Ecosystem Will Mean for Storage Developers Sanjay Radia Co-Founder, Hortonworks	Storage Spaces - Next Generation Virtualized Storage for Windows Karan Mehra Principal Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Corporation	Status of SMB2/SMB3 Development in Samba Michael Adam Sofware Engineer, Samba Team
3:20- 3:35	Break
3:35- 4:25	Openstack Object Storage Overview John Dickinson Director of Technology at SwiftStack and Project Technical Lead for OpenStack Swift	The Solid State Storage (R-)Evolution Michael Krause Fellow Engineer, Hewlett-Packard	GlusterFS Challenges and Futures Jeff Darcy Principal Software Engineer, Gluster.org	How Can Hypervisors Leverage Advanced Storage Features? Dr. Anupam Bhide CEO, Co-Founder, Calsoft Inc.	The Evolution of Asynchronous IO in Samba Jeremy Allison Engineer, Google Samba Team
4:35- 5:25	Bridging POSIX-like APIs and Cloud Storage Wesley Leggette Software Architect, Cleversafe, Inc.	Making Sense of the SSD Jungle for Relational Databases Jim Ting Stec, Inc	A Case Study of an Object Storage Grid Using Tahoe - LAFS Phillip Clark Principal, ECC Data Corporation	Block Storage and Fabric Management Using Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and SMI-S Madhu Jujare Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft	AD Everywhere: Active Directory Where You Wouldn't Expect It, using Samba 4.0 Andrew Bartlett Authentication Developer, Samba Team
6:30- 7:30	Plugfest Open House and Reception (Magnolia)

Tuesday, September 18, 2012
7:30 - 8:45	Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45 - 9:00	Welcome Remarks Wayne Adams, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors Don Deel, Chairman, SNIA Technical Council
9:00 - 9:45	Linux Filesystems: Details on Recent Developments in Linux Filesystems and Storage Chris Mason, Director Kernel Engineering, Fusion-io
9:45-10:25	Non-volatile Memory in the Storage Hierarchy: Opportunities and Challenges Dhruva Chakrabarti, Senior Scientist, HP
10:25-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Building Next Generation Cloud Networks for Big Data Applications Jayshree Ullal, President and Chief Executive Officer, Arista Networks
11:20-12:00	Windows File and Storage Directions Surendra Verma, Development Manager, Storage and File Systems, Microsoft
12:00-1:00	Lunch and Sponsor Showcase (Mezzanine)
	Cloud	Solid State	NFS	Block Protocols	Performance / Workloads
1:00 - 1:50	Data Integrity in the Cloud Christoph Hellwig Principal Storage Engineer, Nebula	PCIe SSD devices - A Year Later Robert Randall Windows Driver Architect, Micron Technology, Inc.	NFSv4 Protocol Development Alex McDonald CTO Office, NetApp	SAS and SCSI Technology Advancements Marty Czekalski President – SCSI Trade Association; Interface and Emerging Architecture Program Manager, Seagate Greg McSorley Technical Business Development Manager, Amphenol Corp.	Hyper-V Storage Performance and Scaling Joe Dai Principal Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation Liang Yang Senior Performance Engineer, Microsoft Corporation
1:30- 2:30	Tech Field Day Roundtable (Mezzanine)
2:00 - 2:50	Optimizing Sequence Alignment in Cloud Using Hadoop and MPP Database Senthilkumar Vijayakumar IT Analyst, Tata Consultancy Services LTD Anjanibhargavi Ragothaman System Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd	PCI Express IO Virtualization Overview Ron Emerick Principal Hardware Engineer, Oracle Corporation	NFSv4.1 Architecture and Tradeoffs in Windows Server 2012 Roopesh Battepati Principal Development Lead, Microsoft Corporation Mike Johnson Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation	iSCSI: Backing Blocks with Files Paul Forgey Principal Software Engineer, EMC, Isilon Storage Division	The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Storage Behaviors and Requirements Spencer Shepler Performance Architect, Microsoft Corporation
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:55	NoSQL in the Clouds with Windows Azure Table Jai Haridas Principal Development Manager, Microsoft Corporation	Building Commercial Storage Systems from Consumer SSDs John Hayes Founder and Chief Architect, Pure Storage	NFSv4.1 Server Protocol Compliance, Security, Performance and Scalability Testing: Implement the RFC, Going Beyond POSIX Interop! Raymond Wang Senior Software Design Engineer in Test, Microsoft Corporation	Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) John Hufferd Owner, Hufferd Enterprises	SQL Server: Understanding the Application/Data Workload, and Designing Storage Products to Match Desired Characteristics for Better Performance Gunter Zink Principal Program Manager Microsoft Corporation Claus Joergensen, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
4:05 - 4:55	Testing 'Continous Available' File Servers - An end-to-end service viewpoint Tsan Zheng Sr. Test Lead, Microsoft Aniket Malatpure Sr. Test Lead, Microsoft	Revisiting Storage for Smartphones Nitin Agrawal NEC Laboratories America Award winning paper from the USENIX File & Storage Technology Conference	Scaling Oracle with pNFS: Improving Database Efficiency for Scale-out Architecture Bikash Roy Choudhury Solutions Architect, NetApp	VN2VN: A New Framework for L2 DAS Prafulla Deuskar Storage Networking Architect, Intel Mark Wunderlich Storage Technologist, Intel	The Future of Protocol and SMB2/3 Analysis Paul Long Sr. Program Manager, Protocol Enginering Framework, Microsoft Corporation
5:00 - 7:00	Networking Reception - Sponsor Showcase (Mezzanine)
	"Birds of a Feather" Sessions Schedule a BoF
7:00-8:00	BoF - NVM Programming TWG: 3 Months Old!
8:00-9:00	BoF - Solid State Storage TWG BoF		BoF - Developing with Red Hat Storage
9:00-10:00	BoF - Available

Wednesday, September 19, 2012
7:30-8:45	Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45-9:00	Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Don Deel, Chairman, SNIA Technical Council
9:00-9:45	Storage Systems for Shingled Disks Garth Gibson, Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, and Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Panasas Inc.
9:45-10:25	The Big Deal of Big Data to Big Storage Benjamin Woo, Founder and Managing Director, Neuralytix
10:25-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Unified Storage for the Private Cloud Dennis Chapman, Senior Technical Director, NetApp
11:20-12:15	SNIA SSSI PCIe SSD Round Table Moderator: Eden Kim, CEO, Calypso Systems, Inc. Panelists: Marty Czekalski, Interface & Emerging Architecture Program Manager, Seagate Technology Dr. Easen Ho, CTO, Calypso Systems, Inc. Tony Roug, Solutions Architect, Virident Systems
12:15-1:15	Lunch and Sponsor Showcase (Mezzanine)
	Cloud	Storage Management	File Systems	Big Data	SMB/2/3
1:15-2:05	A Simple Open Source Cloud Storage System Dan Pollack Senior Operations Architect, AOL	NAS Management using Microsoft Corporation System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and SMI-S Alex Naparu Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation Madhu Jujare Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation	Linux File and Storage Systems: Challenges and Futures Ric Wheeler Architect & Manager of the RHEL File System Team & Red Hat Storage, Red Hat	Efficient Archiving and Fetching of ‘Big Data’ Files Uttam Kaushik Manager Engineering EMC DiskXtender Product Suite, EMC	Implementing Quality-of-Service Using SMB2 Crediting Christian Ambach IBM Samba Team
1:30- 2:30	Tech Field Day Roundtable (Mezzanine)
2:15-3:05	How to Store Data to the Cloud without Giving the Cloud Anything Jason Resch Senior Software Engineer, Cleversafe, Inc.	Service Level Objectives for Storage Solutions with Different Application Dr. M. K. Jibbe Director of Test Architect and Quality for APG Products, NetApp Kuok Hoe Tan Senior QA Engineer, NetApp	The Btrfs Filesystem Chris Mason Director of Kernel Engineering Lead Developer of the Btrfs Filesystem, Fusion-io	Object Storage - Key to Big Data Infrastructure Anil Vasudeva President & Chief Analyst, IMEX Research	SMB 3, Hyper-V and ONTAP Garrett Mueller Senior Engineer, NetApp
3:05-3:20	Break
3:20-4:10	Erasure Coding in Windows Azure Storage Award Winning paper from the USENIX Annual Technical Conference 2012 Cheng Huang Researcher, Microsoft Corporation Research	Experiences Evolving SmarterILM Mark Smith Enterprise Architect, IBM GTS Gabriel Alatorre Software Engineer, IBM	Scaling Storage to the Cloud and Beyond with Ceph Sage Weil Founder and Chief Architect, Inktank.	Big Data and The Evolution of Tape Technologies Kevin Dudak Senior Product Manager, Spectra Logic	Design and Implementation of SMB Locking in a Clustered File System Aravind Velamur Srinivasan Senior Software Engineer, EMC - Isilon Storage Division
4:20-5:10	Improving Cloud Storage Cost and Data Resiliency with Erasure Codes Michael Penick Senior Software Developer, GoDaddy.com	State of SMI-S Don Deel Senior Technologist, Office of the CTO, EMC; Chair SNIA Technical Council	ReFS - Next Generation File System for Windows J.R. Tipton Principal Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Malcolm Smith Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft	Accelerating Hadoop with Data Optimization Hank Cohen Director of Product Management, Altior Inc	Testing Async SMB Samba Volker Lendecke Co-Founder of SerNet GmbH
	"Birds of a Feather" Sessions Schedule a BoF
7:00-8:00	BoF -Fast Storage Access w/ InfiniBand & RDMA		BoF - Cloud Storage Implementations
8:00-9:00	BoF - OpenAFS		BoF - Cloud Storage Implementations
9:00-10:00	BoF - Available

Thursday, September 20, 2012
7:30 - 8:30	Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:15 - 8:30	Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Don Deel, SNIA Technical Council Chair; EMC
8:30 - 9:20	Closing Keynote The Evolving Apache Hadoop Eco System - What It Means for Big Data Analytics and Storage Developers Sanjay Radia, Co-founder, Hortonworks
	Cloud	Solid State	Dedupe	SMB/2/3
9:30 - 10:20	Rainy Days & Boot Storms Always Get Me Down (Evaluating Clouds: What You Need to Know) Peter Murray Senior Product Specialist, SwiftTest, Inc.	Intelligent Controllers at the Heart of Modern Solid State Storage Designs Anil Vasudeva President & Chief Analyst, IMEX Research	Primary Data Deduplication in Windows Server 8 Sudipta Sengupta Senior Research Scientist, Microsoft Jim Benton Principal Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation Research	Techniques for Debugging File Protocol Performance Issues Evgeny Popovich Principal Software Engineer, EMC Isilon Storage Division
10:20 - 10:30	Break
	Security / Identity	Solid State	Dedupe	SMB/2/3
10:30 - 11:20	Local Accounts and Privileges in Likewise Storage Server Rafal Szczesniak Senior Software Engineer, EMC Isilon Storage Division	SAS SSDs – Building Blocks for High-Performance Storage Ulrich Hansen Director, Market Development, HGST, a Western Digital Company	Prequel: Distributed Caching for the Masses Christopher R. Hertel Senior Principal Software Engineer Red Hat Jose Rivera Software Engineer, Red Hat	High Performance File Serving with SMB3 and RDMA via the SMBDirect Protocol Tom Talpey Software Architect Microsoft Corporation Greg Kramer Sr. Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Corporation
11:25 - 12:15	Identity Mapping in the OneFS Clustered File System Steven Danneman Senior Software Engineer, EMC Isilon Storage Division	Is MLC Ready for the Enterprise? Esther Spanjer Director of Technical Marketing, SMART Storage Systems	Storage Efficiency in Clustered Storage Environment Ankur Saran Systems Engineer, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd	SMB 3.0 Application End-to-End Performance Dan Lovinger Principal Software Architect, Microsoft Corporation
12:15	Sessions Conclude
1:00	Plugfest Concludes

Birds of a Feather Sessions

If you or your company are interested in hosting a BoF session, contact Arnold Jones at arnold.jones@snia.org