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2008 Storage Developer Conference Agenda

Note: Agenda times/locations are subject to change. Please check on-site for the latest information.

Monday   |   Tuesday   |   Wednesday   |   Thursday


Monday, September 22, 2008

7:45 - 8:45


Continental Breakfast and Networking

7:45


Registration Opens





Tutorials: Standards to Solutions Tutorials: Emerging Technologies Technical Sessions: CIFS/SMB/SMB2

8:45 - 9:45

SBB 2.0 Specification Overview

Mark Hall, Storage Bridge Bay Working Group

Why Fibre Channel over Ethernet?

Martin Skagen,, Chief Architect and Director, Office of the CTO, Brocade Communication Systems

FSBench: A CIFS/SMB/SMBv2 File Server Tool for Benchmarking, Capacity Planning and Performance Troubleshooting

Jose Barreto, Microsoft

9:45 - 10:00


Break

10:00 - 11:00

SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)

Rajendra Divecha, Patni Americas, Inc.

FCoE - Why It's More Than Just Another Protocol

Frederick Knight, NetApp

Microsoft Network Monitor 3 (NM3)

Paul Long, Microsoft

11:00 - 12:00

NFSv4.1 and Beyond

Michael Eisler, NetApp

ZFS Part I

Jeff Bonwick, Sun Microsystems

Bill Moore, Sun Microsystems
Using Wireshark for Analyzing CIFS Traffic

Ronnie Sahlberg, Samba Team

12:00 - 1:00


Lunch

1:00 - 2:00

RDMA-Based Network Storage: How It Varies with the Mileage?

Weikuan Yu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
ZFS Part II

Jeff Bonwick, Sun Microsystems

Bill Moore, Sun Microsystems
Active Directory Group Policies and Storage Management

Matthew Geddes, agami Systems, Inc.

2:00 - 3:00

SLP in SMI-S

Steve Peters, Hewlett Packard
Samba4 as Active Directory Member Server

Kai Blin, Samba Team

3:00 - 3:15


Break

3:15 - 4:15

XAM & XAM SDK

Mark Carlson, Sun Microsystems
SNIA Green Update for Developers

Erik Riedel, Seagate

All-Active High Performance CIFS Clustering

Ronnie Sahlberg, Samba Team

4:15 - 5:15

Green SCSI

Giri Basava, Consultant Software Engineer, EMCt

Model-Based Quality Assurance of the SMB2 Protocol Documentation

Keith Stobie, Microsoft

3:30 - 4:30


Hands on Lab for Developers - Session I

4:30 - 5:30


Hands on Lab for Developers – Session II

5:15 - 6:30


Reception & Plugfest Openhouse

5:30 - 6:00


Break

6:00 - 7:00


Hands on Lab for Developers - Session III

7:00 - 8:00


Hands on Lab for Developers - Session IV




Tuesday, September 23, 2008

7:30 - 8:15


Continental Breakfast and Networking

8:15 - 8:30


Welcome Remarks

Vincent Franceschini, SNIA Board Chairman
Dave Thiel, SNIA Technical Council Chair

8:30 - 9:30


Keynote Speaker

Andy Bechtolsheim, Co-Founder, Chief Architecht, Sr. VP, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems

9:30-10:15


Featured Speaker

Jeff Barr, Senior Evangelist, Amazon Web Services

10:15-10:30


Break

10:30-11:15


Featured Speaker
Opening Up the WSPP Protocols: What this Means for NAS
Andrew Tridgell, Founder Samba Team

11:15-12:00


Featured Speaker

Andrew Morton, Google

12:15-1:15


Lunch




XAM/Data Management


Storage Device Technology


Security


CIFS/SMB/SMB2


1:15 - 2:15

XAM Over OSD

Sami Iren, Research Staff Member, Seagate


IDEMA 4K Sector Talk

Mike Fitzpatrick, IDEMA


Status Report on Storage Security Initiatives

Eric Hibbard, Sr. Director, Data Networking Technology, Hitachi Data Systems


SMB Version 2: Scaling from Kilobits to Gigabits

James Pinkerton, Architect, Microsoft

David Kruse, Principal Development Lead, Microsoft


2:15 - 3:15

XAM and pNFS - A Case Study

Peter Cudhea, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems


A Novel Approach to Storage System NVRAM

Kevin Sheehan, Consulting Software Engineer, agami Systems, Inc.

Paul Massiglia, Chief Technology Strategist, agami Systems, Inc.


Trusted Computing Group Trusted Storage Specification

Jason Cox, Software Engineer, Seagate


Moving to SMB2

David Kruse, Principal Development Lead, Microsoft


3:15 - 3:30


Break

3:30 - 4:30


Hands on Lab for Developers – Session I

3:30 - 4:30

Open Source Storage Solution - ILM

Udayan Singh, ITA, Tata Consultancy Services

Nishi Gupta, ASE, Tata Consultancy Services


Comparison of Drive Technologies for High-Transaction Databases

Wade Tuma, Founder, President and CEO, Solid Data Systems


Trusted Storage: Putting Security and Data Together

Michael Willett, Co-Chairman, Storage Work Group, Trusted Computing Group


Testing an SMB2 Implementation

Andrew Tridgell, Founder, Samba Team


4:30 - 5:30


Hands on Lab for Developers – Session II

4:30 - 5:30

Generic Data Object Synchronization

Kalidas Balakrishnan, Technical Specialist, Novell

Rajesh Ghiya, Manager, Software Engineering, Novell


General Purpose Storage Servers

Art Licht, Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems


Key Management: The Key to Secure Storage

Walt Hubis, Chair, Key Management Services Subgroup, Trusted Computing Group


Native OpenSolaris CIFS Service

Alan Wright, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems

Afshin Salek, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems


5:30 - 7:30


Welcome Reception - Sponsor Showcase

6:00 - 7:00


Hands on Lab for Developers - Session III

7:00 - 8:00


Hands on Lab for Developers - Session IV

7:30 - 8:30


BOF - TBD

8:30 - 9:30


BOF - TBD




Wednesday, September 24, 2008

7:30 - 8:30


Continental Breakfast and Networking

8:30 - 9:30


Keynote Speaker

Steve Herrod, VP Research and Development, VMware

9:30-10:15


Featured Speaker
TBD
TBD

10:15-10:30


Break

10:30-11:15


Featured Speaker

James Bottomley, SCSI Subsystem Maintainer, Linux Kernel

11:15-12:00


“Food Fight” Panel

12:00-1:15


Lunch - Sponsor Showcase




Storage Management


iSCSI


File Systems


CIFS/SMB/SMB2


1:15 - 2:15

Tape Library Virtualization Based on IEEE Standard 1244

Wolfgang Mueller-Friedt, Senior Software Engineer, IBM

Encrypted Local & iSCSI Storage with ZFS

Darren Moffat, Sun Microsystems
Clustered and Parallel Storage System Technologies

Brent Welch, Director, Software Architecture, Panasas

SoFS - Scale out File Services

Sven Oehme, SME Storage and Filesystem Virtualization, IBM

2:15 - 3:15

SMI-S Client Development & Deployment in an Enterprise Environment

Cindy Zhou, Software Engineer, IBM

Accelerating iSCSI Proxy I/O

Andrew Spry, Storage Systems Architect, LSI Corporation

Leveraging NFSv4 to Build a Federated File System Protocol

Dan Ellard, Member, Technical Staff, NetApp

Implementing DFS-N
Dan Lovinger, Development Lead, Microsoft

3:15 - 3:30


Break

3:30 - 4:30


Hands on Lab for Developers – Session I

3:30 - 4:30

Managing Host Based Replication/Copy Services with SMI

Ramandeep Kaur, Novell

OpenSolaris iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER)

Peter Dunlap, Sun Microsystems

Optimizing File System Snapshots

Chetan Rai, agami Systems, Inc

Navigating Microsoft’s Open Protocols, with a Focus on the File Server Role

Keith Hageman, Microsoft

4:30 - 5:30

CIMFS: File System Interface for CIM

Sudhakar GNVS, Software Consultant, Novell

Ashwin Pankaj, Senior Software Engineer, Novell

iSCSI Testing: Are There More Test Challenges Under the Hood of an iSCSI Storage Product Certification?

M.K. Jibbe, Mgr., Lead Test Architect, LSI Corporation

A Unified Synchronization and Access Control Framework for File Access Services

Manoj Dahal, Software Consultant, Novell

Lokesh Babu K, Specialist, Novell

Regulatory Impact on Windows Protocols

Dennis Chapman, Senior Technical Director, NetApp

4:30 - 5:30


Hands on Lab for Developers – Session II

5:30 - 7:30


Evening Reception - Sponsor Showcase

6:00 - 7:00


Hands on Lab for Developers - Session III

7:00 - 8:00


Hands on Lab for Developers - Session IV




Thursday, September 25, 2008

7:30 - 8:30


Continental Breakfast and Networking




Storage Management


File System Performance


File/Security


CIFS/SMB/SMB2


8:30 - 9:30

Microsoft Support for SMI-S

Alan Warwick, Development Manager, Microsoft

Intel(R) NAS Performance Toolkit

Anthony Bock, Staff Engineer, Intel

Frank Hady, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel
Integrating Access Control Models Across Various File-Access Protocols on Linux

Haripriya Srinivasaraghavan, Senior Specialist, Novell

Beyond CIFS

David Kruse, Software Development Lead, Microsoft

9:30-10:30

SMI-S Provider Development Framework

Ashish Jangam, Senior Software Specialist, Patni Computer Systems

Neerav Parikh, Senior Software Specialist, Patni Computer Systems

Performance Analysis and Benchmarking with Filebench

Spencer Shepler, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems

"Best of FAST"
CIFS Protocol Extensions

Steven French, Senior Engineer, File System Architect, IBM Linux Technology Center

TBD

TBD

10:30-10:45


Break

10:45-11:45

Moving Towards Automatic Storage Network Management

Michael O'Sullivan, Senior Lecturer, University of Auckland

DTrace for Storage Development

Dominic Kay, Senior Marketing Manager, Sun Microsystems

TBD

TBD

Below SMB: How the Windows File System Impacts Remote File Access

Neal Christiansen, Principal Development Lead, Microsoft

11:45-12:15

"Chalk Talk"
Q&A Session with Speakers

"Chalk Talk"
Q&A Session with Speakers

"Chalk Talk"
Q&A Session with Speakers

"Chalk Talk"
Q&A Session with Speakers

12:15


Conference Concludes




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