2016 Storage Developer Conference Agenda

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2016 Storage Developer Conference Agenda

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking

General Sessions (Santa Clara Ballroom)

Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements
Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Chair

MarFS: A Scalable Near-POSIX File System over Cloud Objects for HPC Cool Storage
Gary Grider, HPC Div Director, LANL

Overview of Swordfish: Scalable Storage Management
Richelle Ahlvers, Principal Storage Management Architect, Broadcom

Note: Speaker assignments and session times are subject to change.

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Optional Pre-Conference Primer: Sunday, September 18, 2016
11:00 - 2:00	Registration Opens
1:00- 5:00	Click here for the Sunday Pre-conference Primer Agenda

Monday, September 19, 2016
7:30- 8:30	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Cloud (Stevens Creek)	Filesystems (Winchester)	NVMe over Fabrics (Cypress)	Storage Management (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Hardware (Lafayette)
8:30-9:20	Introduction to OpenStack Cinder Sean McGinnis Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Dells	Design of a WORM Filesystem Terry Stokes Principal Software Engineer, EMC/Isilon	NVMe over Fabrics - High Performance Flash moves to Ethernet Rob Davis VP Storage Technology, Mellanox Idan Burstein Storage Architect, Mellanox	What Can One Billion Hours of Spinning Hard Drives Tell Us? Gleb Budman CEO, Backblaze	The Curse of Areal Density Ralph Weber Consultant, ENDL Texas
9:30-10:20	Cloud Access Control Delegation David Slik Technical Director, NetApp	MarFS: Near-POSIX Access to Object-Storage Jeff Inman Software Developer, Los Alamos National Laboratory Gary Grider HPC Div Director, LANL	NVMe Over Fabrics Support in Linux Christoph Hellwig Sagi Grimberg Co-founder, Principle Architect, LightBits Labs	Managing Data by Objectives Douglas Fallstrom Senior Director of Product Management, Primary Data	Characterizing the Evolution of Disk Attributes via Absorbing Markov Chains Rachel Traylor Research Scientist, EMC
10:20-10:35	Break
10:35- 11:25	USB Cloud Storage Gateway David Disseldorp Engineer, SUSE Linux	Data Integrity support for Silent Data Corruption in Gfarm File System Osamu Tatebe Professor, University of Tsukuba	Persistent Memory (Cypress)	The Data Feedback Loop: Using Big Data to Enhance Data Storage Shannon Loomis Data Scientist, Nimble Storage	Storage Networking (Lafayette)
			In-memory Persistence: Opportunities and Challenges Dhruva Chakrabarti Research Engineer, Hewlett Packard Labs		Performance Implications Libiscsi RDMA Support Roy Shterman Software Engineer, Mellanox Sagi Grimberg Co-founder, Principle Architect, LightBits Labs Shlomo Greenberg, PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, Israel
11:35- 12:25	Service Oriented Cloud Storage Performance Analysis Da Qi Ren Staff Research Engineer, Huawei Technologies Dr. Masood Mortazavi Distinguished Engineer, Huawei, US R&D Center	Optimizing Every Operation in a Write-optimized File System Rob Johnson Research Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University	Enabling Remote Access to Persistent Memory on an IO Subsystem Using NVM Express and RDMA Stephen Bates Sr. Technical Director, Microsemi	Hyper-V Windows Server 2016 Storage QoS and Protocol Updates Matt Kurjanowicz Senior Software Engineer Lead, Microsoft Adam Burch Software Engineer II, Microsoft	Testing (Lafayette)
					Uncovering Distributed Storage System Bugs in Testing (not in Production!) Shaz Qadeer Principal Researcher, Microsoft Cheng Huang Principle Researcher, Microsoft
12:30- 1:30	Lunch and Networking
	Cloud (Stevens Creek)	Filesystems (Winchester)	Persistent Memory (Cypress)	Storage Managementy (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Data Preservation (Lafayette)
1:30- 2:20	Deploying and Optimizing for Cloud Storage Systems using Swift Simulator Gen Xu Performance Engineer, Intel	Hardware Based Compression in Ceph OSD with BTRFS Weigang Li Software Engineer, Intel Tushar Gohad Senior Staff Engineer, Intel Corporation	The SNIA NVM Programming Model Doug Voigt Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Time to Say Good Bye to Storage Management with Unified Namespace, Write Once and Reuse Everywhere Paradigm Anjaneya Chagam Principal Engineer, Intel	The Role of Active Archive in Long-Term Data Preservation Mark Pastor Director of Archive and Technical Workflow Solutions, Quantum
2:30- 3:20	Hyper Converged Cache Storage Infrastructure For Cloud Chendi Xue Software Engineer, Intel APAC R&D	Efficient Data Tiering in GlusterFS Rafi KC Software Engineer, Red Hat India	Challenges with Persistent Memory in Distributed Storage Systems Dan Lambright Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat	Security (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Cold Data Storage (Lafayette)
				On-demand Authentication Infrastructure for Test and Development Andrew Leonard Senior Software Engineer, EMC Isilon	Introducing the View of SNIA Japan Cold Storage Technical Working Group on "Cold Storage" Kazuhiko Kawamura Senior Manager - System Engineering, Sony Corporation
3:20- 3:35	Break
3:35- 4:25	Object Storage (Stevens Creek)	Multi-Chance Scalable ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache) Shailendra Tripathi Architect, Tegile Systems	Building on The NVM Programming Model – A Windows Implementation Paul Luse Principal Engineer, Intel Chandra Kumar Konamki Sr Software Engineer, Microsoft	Testing (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Data Preservation (Lafayette)
	Cutting the Cord: Why We Took the File System Out of Our Storage Nodes Manish Motwani Backend Storage Software Architect, Cleversafe, an IBM Company			Assuring Quality When Objects and Files Converge Julian Cachua Fruchier Storage Test Engineer, IBM Ariday Balderas Alba Software Engineer, IBM	Data Retention and Preservation: The IT Budget Killer is Tamed Shawn Brume Business Line Executive, Data Retention Infrastructure, IBM, The LTO Program, IBM
4:35- 5:25	New Fresh Open Source Object Storage Jean-Francois Smigielski Co-founder and R&D Manager, OpenIO	Performance (Winchester)	Breaking Barriers: Making Adoption of Persistent Memory Easier Andy Rudoff Architect Datacenter Software, Intel	SMB (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Capacity Optimization (Lafayette)
		Optimizing Workload Performance in Virtualized Environment Gaurav Gupta Senior Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services Anurag Mehrotra Assistant Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services		SMB3.1.1 and Beyond in the Linux Kernel: Providing Optimal File Access to Windows, Mac, Samba and Other File Servers Steven French Principal Systems Engineer: Protocols, Samba Team/Primary Data	Smashing Bits: Comparing Data Compression Techniques in Storage Juan Deaton Research Engineer and Scientist, AHA
5:30- 7:00	Plugfest Open House and Reception
7:00-10:00	"Birds of a Feather" Sessions If you or your company are interested in hosting a BoF session, please complete the SDC 2016 BoF Request form
7:00-8:00	BoF: Kinetic Drives and IP Drive Management (Cypress)		BoF: The Future of Ethernet Connected Flash Systems (Winchester)		BoF: Open Source Storage Networking (Stevens Creek)

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Tuesday, September 20, 2016
7:30- 8:45	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45- 12:00	Kinetic Storage Solutions Plugfest
	General Sessions (Santa Clara Ballroom)
8:45- 9:00	Welcome Remarks David Dale, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors
9:00- 9:45	Cloud Architecture in the Data Center and the Impact on the Storage Ecosystem: A Journey Down the Software Defined Storage Rabbit Hole Dan Maslowski, Global Engineering Head, Citi Storage/Engineered Systems, Citigroup
9:45-10:25	Hyperscaler Storage Mark Carlson, Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba
10:25-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Scalable High Performance Flash Systems Jeff Bonwick, Co-founder and CTO, DSSD
11:20-12:00	The Magnetic Hard Disk Drive Today’s Technical Status and Its Future Edward Grochowski, Consultant, Memory/Storage Peter Goglia, President, VeriTekk Solutions
12:00- 1:00	Lunch and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Object Storage (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Erasure Coding (Lafayette)	Persistent Memory (Cypress)	SMB (Winchester)	SMR (Stevens Creek)
1:00- 1:50	Dynamic Object Routing Balaji Ganesan Director Of Engineering, Cloudian Bharat Boddu Principal SW Engineer, Cloudian	Modern Erasure Codes for Distributed Storage Systems Srinivasan Narayanamurthy Member Technical Staff, NetApp	Enterprise Storage RAS Augmented by Native Intel Platform Storage Extensions Tanveer Alam Sr. Platform Applications Engineer, Intel	SMB3 and Linux - A Seamless File Sharing Protocol Jeremy Allison Engineer, Samba Team/Google	The Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) Revolution – Data Management Techniques Examined Tom Coughlin President, Coughlin Associates
2:00- 2:50	Storage Solutions for Private Cloud, Object Storage Implementation on Private Cloud, MAS/ACS Ali Turkoglu Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft Mallikarjun Chadalapaka Principal Program Manager, Microsoft	Fun with Linearity: How Encryption and Erasure Codes are Intimately Related Jason Resch Senior Software Architect, IBM	RDMA Verbs Extensions for Persistency and Consistency Idan Burstein Storage Architect, Mellanox	Improving DCERPC Security Stefan Metzmacher Developer, SerNet/Samba Team	ZBC/ZAC Support in Linux Damien Le Moal Sr. Manager, Western Digital
2:50- 3:05	Break
3:05- 3:55	Heterogeneous Architectures for Implementation of High-capacity Hyper-converged Storage Devices Michaela Blott Principal Engineer, Xilinx/Research Endric Schubert PhD, CTO & Founder, MLE	Next Generation Scale-Out NAS Philippe Nicolas Advisor, Rozo Systems	Low Latency Remote Storage: A Full-stack View Tom Talpey Architect, Microsoft	SMB3 in Samba – Multi-Channel and Beyond Michael Adam Architect and Manager, Red Hat	ZDM: Using an STL for Zoned Media on Linux Shaun Tancheff Software Engineer, AeonAzure LLC
4:05- 4:55	Object Storage Analytics : Leveraging Cognitive Computing For Deriving Insights And Relationships Pushkar Thorat Software Engineer, IBM	Optimize Storage Efficiency & Performance with Erasure Coding Hardware Offload Dror Goldenberg VP of Software Architecture, Mellanox Technologies	RDMA Extensions for Accelerating Remote PMEM Access - HW and SW Considerations, Architecture, and Programming Models Chet Douglas Principal SW Engineer, Intel	Clustered Samba Challenges and Directions Volker Lendecke Developer, Samba Team/SerNet	NVMe – Awakening a New Titan... Deployment, Ecosystem and Market Size Shaun Walsh Managing Partner, G2M Research
5:00- 7:00	Welcome Reception - Sponsor Showcase
7:00-10:00	"Birds of a Feather" Sessions If you or your company are interested in hosting a BoF session, please complete the SDC 2016 BoF Request form
7:00-8:00	BoF: Hyperscaler and Datacenter Storage Update (Cypress)		BoF: Missing in Action: No Bursts in Current Vendor Synthetic Workload Tests. Why They Are Critical to Storage Array Evaluation (Stevens Creek)
8:00-9:00	BoF: Long Term Data Preservation and the SIRF Container Format (Winchester)		BoF: Hollywood & Supercomputing Applications of Persistent Memory and Persistent Memory over Fabrics (Stevens Creek)

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