Attend the Storage Developer Conference 2011

Consistently rated as “indispensable” by the storage development professionals who attend, the Storage Developer Conference (SDC) – now in its 8th year - will be held September 19-22, 2011 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Santa Clara, Calif. Designed for developers, architects, engineers, or product/program managers, the SDC agenda focuses on advances in hardware, cloud storage, data deduplication, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), file systems, green technologies, virtualization, security, solid state storage, storage management, storage testing, and CIFS/SMB/SMB2.

As in years past, SDC’s Agenda is developed under the supervision of the SNIA Technical Council, and we’ve made sure that this conference is a business–critical event that offers a no-fluff approach, with deep coverage of technical storage topics. A few of the speakers at this year’s event include:

• Eric Baldeschwieler, CEO, Hortonworks
• Dhruba Borthakur, Project Lead, Open Source Apache, Hadoop Distributed File System, Facebook
• Prasenjit Sarkar, Computer Science researcher and Master Inventor, IBM Research
• Andy Walls, Distinguished Engineer and Technical Lead, IBM - Systems and Technology Division
• Ric Wheeler, File System Team Manager and Architect, Red Hat
• Sage Weil, Ph.D., Co-founder, New Dream Network

Attending SDC is a cost-effective way to stay current with all the latest technology in one place, through four tracks of sessions, tutorials, Keynote speakers, and the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 and Cloud plugfests.

Microsoft will again be the Underwriter (this year in partnership with NetApp) to support the 5–day CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest which is co–located with SDC 2011. The CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest will start on Sunday, September 18, and will allow vendors to bring their implementations of CIFS/SMB/SMB2 to test, identify, and fix bugs in a collaborative setting with the goal of providing a forum in which companies can develop interoperable products.

New to SDC in 2011 is a Cloud technology Plugfest that will have vendors testing their implementation of Cloud-standard based products. The purpose of this Plugfest is for vendors to test, identify, and fix bugs in a collaborative setting with the goal of providing a forum in which companies can develop interoperable products. This year’s Plugfest will include the testing of client and server products using CDMI and/or OCCI.

Contact Arnold Jones of SNIA at 407.574.7273 or arnold.jones@snia.org for information on participating in either of the above Plugfests.

Register today, and we look forward to welcoming you to SDC 2011!