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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, 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, Chairman, Storage Bridge Bay Working Group

Why Fibre Channel over Ethernet?

Bob Snively, Principal Engineer, Technology and Standards Group, Brocade

A CIFS/SMB/SMBV2 File Server Tool for Capacity Planning and Performance Troubleshooting

Jose Barreto, Technology Evangelist, Microsoft

Bartosz Nyczkowski, Software Development Engineer, Microsoft

9:45 - 10:00


Break

10:00 - 11:00

SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)

Rajendra Divecha, Software Specialist, Patni Americas, Inc.

FCoE - Why It's More Than Just Another Protocol

Frederick Knight, SAN Standards Technologist, NetApp

Microsoft Network Monitor 3 (NM3)

Paul Long, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

11:00 - 12:00

NFSv4.1 and Beyond

Michael Eisler, Senior Technical Director, NetApp

Dave Noveck, Senior Engineer, NetApp

Spencer Shepler, CTO, Storspeed

ZFS Part I

Jeff Bonwick, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems

Bill Moore, Hardware/Software Architect, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems
Using Wireshark for Analyzing CIFS Traffic

Ronnie Sahlberg, Samba Team

12:00 - 1:00


Lunch

1:00 - 2:00

F-SSDs in the Enterprise: Where, How and Why

Marius F. Tudor, Director, Business Development, BiTMICRO Networks Inc.

Denis Vilfort, Sun Microsystems
ZFS Part II

Jeff Bonwick, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems

Bill Moore, Hardware/Software Architect, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems
Active Directory Group Policies and Storage Management

Matthew Geddes, agami Systems, Inc.

2:00 - 3:00

Samba4 as Active Directory Member Server

Kai Blin, Samba Team

3:00 - 3:15


Break

3:15 - 4:15

XAM & XAM SDK

Mark Carlson, Senior Architect, Sun Microsystems

Scott Ostapovicz, Centera Architect, EMC
SNIA Green Update for Developers

Erik Riedel, Department Head for Interfaces & Architecture, Seagate
All-Active High Performance CIFS Clustering

Ronnie Sahlberg, Samba Team

4:15 - 5:15

Green SCSI

Giri Basava, Consultant Software Engineer, EMC

Model-Based Quality Assurance of the SMB2 Protocol Documentation

Wolfgang Grieskamp, Software Architect, Microsoft

3:30 - 4:30


Hands on Lab for Developers - MRV Lab I

4:30 - 5:30


Hands on Lab for Developers - MRV Lab I

5:15 - 6:30


Reception & Plugfest Openhouse

5:30 - 6:00


Break

6:00 - 7:00

7:00 - 8:00




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

The Role of Flash in the Storage Hierarchy
Andreas Bechtolsheim, Co-Founder, Chief Architecht, Sr. VP, Systems Group, Sun Microsystems

9:30-10:15


Featured Speaker
The Bits Are In the Clouds
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

TBD

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, Sr. Research Executive, Fujitsu Computer Products of America


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


Potential Impact of Solid State Memory on Enterprise Storage and Server Solutions

Andy Walls, IBM

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

Open Source Storage Solution - ILM

Udayan Singh, Storage CoE Lead, 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


3:30 - 4:30

4:30 - 5:30

4:30 - 5:30

Data Integrity in the Storage Stack

Jim Williams, Storage Evangelist, Oracle Corporation

Martin Petersen, Linux Kernel Developer, Oracle Corporation

General Purpose Storage Servers

Art Licht, Principal Engineer, Sun Microsystems


Key Management: The Key to Secure Storage

Michael Willett, Co-Chairman, Storage Work Group, 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 - MRV Lab 2

7:00 - 8:00


Hands on Lab for Developers - MRV Lab 2

7:30 - 8:30


Birds of a Feather - Announced on Site

8:30 - 9:30


Birds of a Feather - Announced on Site




Wednesday, September 24, 2008

7:30 - 8:30


Continental Breakfast and Networking

8:30 - 9:30


Keynote Speaker
VMware Virtualization and Storage
Steve Herrod, VP Research and Development, VMware

9:30-10:15


Featured Speaker
Don’t Fight the Trends
Val Bercovici, CTO-at-Large, NetApp

10:15-10:30


Break

10:30-11:15


Featured Speaker
Open Source, Storage Innovation and Business Models
James Bottomley, SCSI Subsystem Maintainer, Linux Kernel

11:15-12:00


"Food Fight" Panel
Solid State Storage: Flash in the Pan or Recipe for Success?
Moderator: Thomas M. Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates

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, Senior Staff Engineer, 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

Measuring Database Performance with 2.6.18 clients over NFSv4

Bikash Roy Choudhury, Solutions Architect, NetApp

Implementing DFS-N

Dan Lovinger, Development Lead, Microsoft

3:15 - 3:30


Break

3:30 - 4:30

DMTF Profiles for Storage

John Crandall, Senior Staff Engineer, Brocade

OpenSolaris iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER)

Peter Dunlap, Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems

Leveraging NFSv4 to Build a Federated File System Protocol

James Lentini, Member of Technical Staff, NetApp

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

Keith Hageman, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft

4:30 - 5:30

SMI-S: Deployment Best Practices

Paul von Behren, Chief Technologist, Symantec

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

Demystifying Storage Configurations for Optimal Performance

Steve Johnson, Performance Scientist, Sun Microsystems

SMB 2.0 Implementation in Data ONTAP

Ankit Mathur,Member Technical Staff, NetApp

3:30 - 4:30


Hands on Lab for Developers - MRV Lab 3
 

4:30 - 5:30


Hands on Lab for Developers - MRV Lab 3

5:30 - 6:30


SDC Academic Innovation Spotlight
Intra-Disk Parallelism: A Green Storage Solution for Data Centers
Sudhanva Gurumurthi, Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia



Thursday, September 25, 2008

7:30 - 8:30


Continental Breakfast and Networking




Storage Management


File System Performance





CIFS/SMB/SMB2


8:30 - 9:30

Microsoft Support for SMI-S

Deborah Jones, Senior Development Lead, Microsoft

Mohamed Lawindi, Software Development Engineer II, Microsoft
Intel(R) NAS Performance Toolkit

Anthony Bock, Staff Engineer, Intel

Frank Hady, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel
Extreme Storage Requirements: Storage on the Lunatic Fringe

Tom Ruwart, Consultant, I/O Performance, Inc

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, CTO, Storspeed

"Best of FAST"
CIFS Protocol Extensions

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

An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack

Garth Goodson, Researcher, NetApp

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

Portably Solving File TOCTTOU Races with Hardness Amplification

Dilma Da Silva, Research Staff Member, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

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

Neal Christiansen, Principal Development Lead, Microsoft

12:15


Conference Concludes




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