Data Storage Innovation Conference Agenda

Data Storage Innovation Conference Agenda

Agenda times are subject to change.

Monday, June 13, 2016
7:30- 9:00	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	/etc (Convene 1)	Hyperconverged (Convene 2)	Cloud (Synergy 1)	Data Protection (Synergy 5)	Filesystems (Synergy 4)
8:30- 9:10	Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) – Data Management Techniques Examined Moderator: Tom Coughlin President, Coughlin Associates Panelists: Jorge Campello, Western Digital Mark Carlson, Toshiba Josh Bingaman, Seagate	Hyperconverged Infrastructures – What They Can Do and Where They’re Going Eric Slack Sr. Analyst, Evaluator Group	Beyond the Cloud: Space-based Data Storage Scott Sobhani Co-founder & CEO, Cloud Constellation Corporation	Intro to Data Protection-Backup to Tape, Disk & Beyond Tom Sas Worldwide Product Marketing Manager, Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Massively Scalable File Storage Philippe Nicolas Advisor, OpenIO
9:15- 9:55	Windows Interoperability Workshop Christopher Hertel Software Developer, Sr. Program Manager, Dell/Compellent	Bringing the Benefits of Hyperconvergence to Secondary Storage Nick Howell Tech Evangelist, Cohesity	Plotting Your Data Exit Before Entering the Private Cloud Fredrik Forslund Director of Cloud and Data Center Erasure Solutions, Blancco Technology Group	Trends in Backup and Restoration Technologies Jason Iehl Manager - Systems Engineering, Netapp	The Tip of the Iceberg: The Coming Era of Open Source Enterprise Storage Michael Dexter Senior Analyst, iXsystems, Inc
10:00- 10:40	Object Drives: Simplifying the Storage Stack Mark Carlson Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba	Distributed Storage (Convene 2)	Storage in Combined Service/Product Data Infrastructures Craig Dunwoody CTO, GraphStream Incorporated	Hot Topics (Synergy 5)	Ceph For The Enterprise David Byte Senior Technology Strategist, SUSE
10:00- 10:40		Maximizing Storage Density While Conserving Valuable Rack Real Estate Chaz Stevens Director of Marketing, Aberdeen LLC		New Fresh Storage Approach for New IT Challenges Laurent Denel CEO, OpenIO Philippe Nicolas Advisor, OpenIO
10:40- 10:55	Break
	Innovation Showcase (Convene 1)	Hyperconverged (Convene 2)	Cloud (Synergy 1)	Data Protection (Synergy 1)	Filesystems (Synergy 4)
10:55- 11:35	1. Caringo 2. Tegile 3. Sponsor TBA 4. Sponsor TBA	Selecting Workloads for Hyperconverged vs Hyperscale Software-Defined Storage Eric Carter Senior Director of Marketing, Hedvig	Dealing with the “Other” Latency: What the Cloud Portends for IT Infrastructure Lazarus Vekiarides CTO and Co-founder, ClearSky Data	Protecting Data in a Big Data World David A. Chapa CTO and Managing Partner, Elovate	High Performance Storage for Science Workloads Ulrich Fuchs IT Service Manager, CERN
11:40- 12:20	1. Exagrid 2. SUSE 3. Compuverde 4. Sponsor TBA	Hyperconverged Infrastructure – Use Cases and Buyer’s Guide Ibrahim Rahmani Director of Product and Solutions Marketing, DataCore	Why Analytics on Cloud Storage? Padmavathy Madhusudhanan Principal Consultant, Wipro Technologies Radhakrishna Singuru Principal Architect, Wipro Technologies	Privacy vs Data Protection: The Impact of EU Data Protection Legislation Thomas Rivera Sr. Technical Associate, HDS	MarFS: A Scalable Near-POSIX File System over Cloud Objects Gary Grider HPC Division Leader, Los Alamos National Laboratory
12:20- 1:40	Lunch and Networking in the Innovation Showcase
1:40- 1:55	General Sessions Welcome Remarks David Dale, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors
1:55- 2:10	Where to Now? Considerations for Storage in the New Data Center Camberley Bates, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, The Evaluator Group Note: Camberley will be the DSI General Sessions Emcee
2:10- 2:50	Enterprise Architectures - The Pace Accelerates Camberley Bates, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, The Evaluator Group
2:50- 3:30	Storage Implications of Cognitive Computing Balint Fleischer, Chief Research Officer, Huawei Jian Li, Research Program Director, Huawei
3:30- 3:45	Break
3:45- 4:25	A DNA-based Archival Storage System Luis Henrique Ceze, Torode Family Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Washington
4:25- 5:05	Preparing Applications for Persistent Memory Doug Voigt, Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
5:15- 7:30	Networking Reception in Innovation Showcase
	"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
7:00-8:00	Privacy Versus (In)security: Who Should Win and Why Between Apple and the FBI?

Tuesday, June 14, 2016
7:30- 9:00	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Big Data (Synergy 5)	Security (Synergy 1)	Cloud (Convene 1)	Storage Class Memory (Convene 2)	Storage Networks (Synergy 4)
8:30- 9:10	Big Data Essentials For IT Professionals Sujee Maniyam Founder/Big Data Principal, Elephant Scale	Intro to Encryption and Key Management: Why, What and Where? Eric Hibbard CTO-Security and Privacy, HDS	Introduction to OpenStack Cinder Sean McGinnis Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Dell	Planning for Persistent Memory in the Data Center Sarah Jelinek Senior SW Engineer, Intel Corp	Benefits of 25, 40 and 50GbE Networks for Ceph and Hyperconverged Infrastructure John Kim Director, Storage Marketing, Mellanox Technologies
9:15- 9:55	Scalable and Smart Storage Class Memory Layer for Big Data Robert Geiger Chief Architect and VP Engineering, Ampool Inc.	Multi-Vendor Key Management with KMIP Tim Hudson CTO & Technical Director, Cryptsoft	Deploying and Optimizing for Cloud Storage Systems using Swift Simulator Gen Xu Software Engineer, Intel	Prescriptive Analytics in the NVM Technology Olga Buchonina CEO, ProstoLabs	Networking Flash Storage? – Fibre Channel was Always the Answer Mark Jones President, FCIA, Director of Technical Marketing and Performance, Broadcom Limited - ECD, Fibre Channel Industry Association
10:00- 10:40	Storage Performance (Synergy 5)	Implementing Stored-Data Encryption Michael Willett VP Marketing, Drive Trust Alliance	Swift Use Cases with SwiftStack John Dickinson Director of Technology, SwiftStack	Emerging Non Volatile Memory and Spin Logic Edward Grochowski Consultant, Self Employed Jim Handy General Director, Objective Analysis	Demonstrating NVMe Over Fabrics Performance on Ethernet Fabrics Rob Davis VP of Storage Technology, Mellanox Technologies
	Learn Your Alphabet - SRIOV, NPIV, RoCE, iWARP - to Pump Up Virtual Infrastructure Performance Dennis Martin President, Demartek
10:40- 10:55	Break
	Big Data (Synergy 5)	Security (Synergy 1)	Cloud (Convene 1)	Filesystems (Convene 2)	Storage Networks (Synergy 4)
10:55- 11:35	“Direct-to-Cloud” Technology Innovations that Open Up the Cloud for Big Data App Jay Migliaccio Director of Cloud Platforms & Services, Aspera, an IBM company	Self-Encrypting Storage for Consumers Robert Thibadeau CEO, Drive Trust Alliance	Storage in Combined Service/Product Data Infrastructures Craig Dunwoody CTO, GraphStream Incorporated	High Performance NAS, New design for New IT Challenges Pierre Evenou CEO, Rozo Systems Philippe Nicolas Advisor, Rozo Systems	Application Advantages of NVMe over Fabrics – RDMA and Fibre Channel Brandon Hoff Director, Product Management, Broadcom
11:40- 12:20	Solving the Framework-Storage Gap in Big Data Haoyuan Li Founder and CEO, Alluxio	Deploying Simple Secure Storage Systems Chris Allo Security Engineering Lead, Seagate LLC	Cloud Bursting Jim Thompson Senior Systems Engineer, Avere System	Hot Topics (Convene 2)	Breaking the limitations of captive NVMe storage – 18M IOPs in 2u Bob Hansen V.P. Systems Architecture, Apeiron Data Systems
				Are You Ready to Deploy In-memory Computing Applications? Shaun Walsh Managing Partner, G2M Communications
12:20- 1:40	Lunch and Networking in the Innovation Showcase
1:40- 1:55	General Sessions SNIA Directions and Enabling IT Progress Michael Oros, Executive Director, SNIA Board of Directors
1:55- 2:10	Welcome Back and What did We Learn from Day One? Camberley Bates, Managing Director and Sr. Analyst, The Evaluator Group
2:10- 2:50	Achieving a Software Defined Cognitive Infrastructure for Oceans of Data Michelle Tidwell, SNIA Board Member IBM Systems Storage, Business Line Manager, Software Defined Storage
2:50- 3:30	Panel: Cloud Computing and Storage, Will Enterprises be All-in and When? Moderator: Mark Carlson, Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba Panelists: Scott Sobhani, Cloud Constellation; Fredrik Forslund, Blancco Technology Group; Craig Dunwoody, GraphStream; Laz Vekiarides, ClearSky Data; Padmavathy Madhusudhanan, Wipro
3:30- 3:45	Break
3:45- 4:25	Today’s Big Changes Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis
4:25- 5:05	Panel: Solid State Storage, Persistent Memory - Harvesting the Wheat from the Chaff Moderator: Wayne M. Adams, SNIA Chairman Emeritus Panelists: Jim Handy, Objective Analysis; Peter Murray, Virtual Instruments; Doug Voigt, Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Mat Young, Netlist
5:15- 7:30	Networking Reception in the Innovation Showcase
	"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
7:00-8:00	Open Source Storage and Datacenter		Compute, Bandwidth and Storage Implications for Next Generation Entertainment Applications
8:00-9:00	BOF - Available
9:00-10:00	BOF - Available

Wednesday, June 15, 2016
7:30- 9:00	Registration Open - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Capacity Optimization (Synergy 5)	Software Defined Storage (Convene 2)	Storage Performance (Convene 1)	Containers (Synergy 1)	Data Management (Synergy 4)
8:30- 9:10	Advanced Data Reduction Concepts Ronald Pagani Jr. Principal Consultant, Open Technology Partners LLC; SNIA Data Protection and Capacity Optimization Committee	Storage on Your Terms: Deep Dive Into Software-Defined Storage Technologies Michael Letschin Field CTO, Nexenta Systems, Inc	Workload Acquisition for the Enterprise Data Center Peter Murray Principal System Engineer, Virtual Instruments	Efficient and Agile Persistent Storage for Containers Carlos Carrero Sr. Principal Technical Product Manager, Veritas Chad Ryan Thibodeau Product Manager, Veritas	5 Ways to Convince Your CEO It’s Time for a Storage Refresh David Siles CTO, DataGravity
9:15- 9:55	How to Reduce Data Capacity in Object Storage: Dedup and More Dong In Shin CTO, G-Cube Inc	Storage Virtualization in Modern Data Centers Farid Yavari VP of Technology, FalconStor	Delivering Predictable Storage Performance in a Virtualized Environment Vince LaPaglia Senior Storage Engineer, Pivot3	/etc (Synergy 5)	The Role of Tape Technology in Managing the Exponential Growth of Cold Data Osamu Shimizu Research Engineer, FUJIFILM Corporation
9:15- 9:55				Windows Interoperability Workshop Christopher Hertel Software Developer, Sr. Program Manager, Dell/Compellent
10:00- 10:40	Cloud (Synergy 5)	SDS in Practice at Mission Community Hospital Ibrahim Rahmani Director of Product and Solutions, DataCore Software	100G iSCSI — A Bright Future for Ethernet Storage Tom Reu Consulting Application Engineer, Chelsio	Hot Topics (Synergy 1)	Embrace Hyper-scale Storage Architecture to Drastically Increase Reliability and Lower Costs Sudhakar Mungamoori Vice President, Customer Success and Sales Engineering, Formation Data Systems
10:00- 10:40	Imminent Challenges for the Cloud Storage Industry and the Solution Mark Carlson Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba Udayan Singh Head, SPE-Storage, Platform and Manageability, Tata Consultancy Services			Machine Learning Based Prescriptive Analytics for Data Center Networks Hariharan Krishnaswamy Principal Engineer, Dell
10:40- 10:55	Break
	Green Storage (Synergy 5)	Storage Management (Convene 2)	Solid State Storage (Convene 1)	Protocols (Synergy 1)	Distributed Storage (Synergy 4)
10:55- 11:35	Power-Efficient Data Storage Brian Zahnstecher Principal, PowerRox	Introduction to Swordfish: Scalable Storage Management Richelle Ahlvers Principal Storage Management Architect, Broadcom	An Examination of User Workloads for SSDs Eden Kim CEO, Calypso Testers	Under the Hood with NVMe over Fabrics J Metz R&D Engineer, SNIA ESF	Identifying Performance Bottlenecks with Real-World Applications and Flash-Based Storage Dennis Martin President, Demartek
11:40- 12:20	Storage Systems Can Now Get ENERGY STAR Labels and Why You Should Care Dennis Martin President, Demartek	Best Practices for Enterprise-Wide Data Protection and Compliance Kurt Kuckein Product Manager, DataDirect Networks	Increasing SSD Performance and Lifetime with Multi-stream Technology Changho Choi Principal Engineer, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc	SAS: Today’s Fast and Flexible Storage Fabric David Demming Chief Technologist, Solution Technology	High Availability for Centralized NVMe Zivan Ori CEO and Co-founder, E8 Storage
	Sessions Conclude