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2009 Storage Developer Conference Agenda

For a complete list of all session descriptions click here. You can also view each session description individually by clicking on the session title.

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

Monday   |   Tuesday   |   Wednesday   |   Thursday


Monday, September 14, 2009

7:45 - 8:45


Continental Breakfast and Networking

7:45


Registration Opens





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

9:00 - 9:50

FCoE Technology Update

David Peterson
Senior Advisory Engineer,
Brocade
ZFS Basic

Jeff Bonwick
Distinguished Engineer,
Sun Microsystems

Bill Moore
Hardware/Software Architect,
Sun Microsystems

ReDocumenting Historic CIFS

Christopher Hertel
CTO,
ubiqx Development, Inc

9:50 - 10:05


Break

10:05 - 10:55

FCoE - From Hype to Reality

Frederick Knight
SAN Standards Technologist,
NetApp

ZFS Advanced

Jeff Bonwick
Distinguished Engineer,
Sun Microsystems

Bill Moore
Hardware/Software Architect,
Sun Microsystems
How to Squeeze >700MB/Sec Out of SMB1, Why SMB2?

Volker Lendecke
Samba Team/SerNet



11:05 - 11:55

NFSv4.1 and Beyond

Spencer Shepler
CTO,
Storspeed

Michael Eisler
NetApp

ZFS What's New

Jeff Bonwick
Distinguished Engineer,
Sun Microsystems

Bill Moore
Hardware/Software Architect,
Sun Microsystems
CIFS Acceleration Techniques

Mark Rabinovich
Project Manager,
Visuality Systems Ltd

Igor Gokhman
Senior Developer,
Visuality Systems Ltd

11:55 - 1:00


Lunch

1:00 - 1:50

Digital Storage for Professional Media and Entertainment

Thomas Coughlin
President,
Coughlin Associates
Linux Ext4 Filesystem

Theodore Ts'o
CTO,
Linux Foundation

BranchCache: Next Generation Branch Office Optimizations

Ravi Rao
Senior Program Manager,
Microsoft Corporation

Molly Brown
Principal Development Lead,
Microsoft Corporation


2:00 - 2:50

Impact of SSDs on IT Strategies

Denis Vilfort
Senior Product Manager
Sun Microsystems

Introducing the New Cloud Data Management Interface

Mark Carlson
Senior Architect,
Sun Microsystems

Technical Deep Dive of the Likewise SMB Server

Gerald Carter
Senior Software Engineer,
Likewise Software, Inc

3:00 - 3:15


Break

3:15 - 4:05

XAM: The New Standard for Data Management

Mark Carlson
Senior Architect,
Sun Microsystems
Green Storage Products: Efficiency with ENERGY STAR and Beyond

Erik Riedel, PhD
Senior Director
Technology & Architecture,
EMC Corporation;
Chair, SNIA Green Storage Technical Work Group (TWG) Member,
SNIA Technical Council

Developing Scalable and Portable CIFS Server

Mark Rabinovich
Project Manager,
Visuality Systems Ltd

4:15 - 5:05

Green Storage in the Data Center

SW Worth
Senior Standards Program Manager,
Microsoft Corporation

Samba ARMed and Ready: Running an AD DC on 2 Watts

Kai Blin
Developer,
Samba Team

5:15 - 6:30

XAM SDK HoLD:  Get Your Hands on XAM

Mark Carlson
Senior Architect,
Sun Microsystems

HoLD SMI-S Demo:
‘Rick_Notes’: Shortcuts Every Developer Needs to Know About SMI-S


Rick Bauer
Technology and Education Director
SNIA

Introduction to the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest



6:30 - 7:30


Reception & Plugfests Open house




Tuesday, September 15, 2009

7:30 - 8:15


Continental Breakfast and Networking

8:15 - 8:30


Welcome Remarks

Wayne Adams, Chair, SNIA Board; EMC
Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Member, Sun Microsystems SDC Program Committee Chair

8:30 - 9:15


Keynote Speaker

Toward Universal Access to All Knowledge
Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Director and Co-Founder Internet Archive

9:15-10:00


Featured Speaker

Cloud Storage with Parallel File Systems
Garth Gibson, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University; Founder and CTO, Panasas

10:00-10:15


Break

10:15-11:00


Featured Speaker

Hadoop File System Architecture and its Usage at Facebook
Dhruba Borthakur, Project Lead, Apache Hadoop Distributed File System, Facebook

11:00-11:45


Featured Speaker

Innovative Solid State Storage Architecture
Michael Cornwell, Lead Technologist, Flash Memory, Sun Microsystems

11:45-1:00


Lunch




Data Management
   Cloud   
Security
CIFS/SMB/SMB2

1:00 - 1:50

Using Data Classification to Manage File Servers

Adi Oltean
Senior SDE,
Microsoft Corporation

Cloud Seeding: Some Practical Methods for Moving Data Between the Enterprise and the Cloud

Dr. Gradimir Starovic
Storage Developer,
Symantec

Chris Dunder
Student,
Santa Clara University

Key Management Interoperability Protocol - A Storage Developer’s Approach to the Standard

Gordon Arnold
STSM, Technical Strategy Storage Software,
IBM


Understanding Windows File System Transactions

Christian Allred
Senior Software Design Engineer,
Microsoft Corporation

2:00 - 2:50

Long Term Information Retention Format

Dr. Sam Fineberg
Distinguished Technologist,
HP Software

A Simple and Scalable Virtualization Platform

Anil Gurumurthy
Architect,
Wipro Technologies

Leonid Grossman
Title,
Company Pending

TCG - Trusted Peripheral Simulator for Data-At-Rest

Sajjad H Khazipura
Chief Architect and General Manager
Wipro Technologies

SMB v2.1

David Kruse
Lead Software Developer,
Microsoft Corporation

2:50 - 3:05


Break

3:05 - 3:55

Real World Experiences Converting to XAM

Kevin Crook
VP Product,
Clearpace Software

Managing Storage of Virtual Machines with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SC-VMM)

Madhu Jujare Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Corporation

Host Based Storage Security - Providing Advanced Storage Security for Virtualization-based Dynamic Infrastructure Environments

Sudhir Rao
Storage Platform Management Architect,
IBM

Larry Hofer
Office of the CTO, Security Architect,
Emulex

SMB2 Model Based Testing

Nico Kicillof
Senior Program Manager,
Microsoft Corporation

Albert Lee
Software Design Engineer II,
Microsoft Corporation

4:05 - 4:55

Effective Storage Tiering for Databases

Murthy Mamidi
Technical Director,
Symantec

Raghu Malige
Technical Director,
Symantec

Building a Storage Service in a Private Cloud

Sajjad H Khazipura
Chief Architect and General Manager
Wipro Technologies

Self-Encrypting Hard Drives: From Laptops to the Data Center

Jason Cox
Editor
Storage Architecture Core Specification,
Trusted Computing Group


File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) for CIFS/SMB/SMB2

Jose Barreto
Senior Program Manager,
Microsoft Corporation

Bartosz Nyczkowski
Software Development Engineer,
Microsoft Corporation

Jian Yan
Senior Program Manager,
Microsoft Corporation

5:00 - 7:30


Welcome Reception - Sponsor Showcase


"Birds of a Feather" - "Host your own BoF!"

7:30 - 8:30


BOF - onsite signup

8:30 - 9:30


BOF - onsite signup

9:30 - 10:30


BOF - onsite signup




Wednesday, September 16, 2009

7:30 - 8:15


Continental Breakfast and Networking

8:15 - 8:30


Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements

Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Member, Sun Microsystems SDC Program Committee Chair

8:30 -  9:15


Keynote Speaker

The Future of Filesystems and Storage - A Linux Perspective
Theodore Ts'o, CTO, Linux Foundation

9:15 - 10:00


Featured Speaker

Mission Critical Storage and Data Protection in the Financial Services Industry
Greg Donnells,
VP Check Infrastructure, CERTEGY, Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.

10:00 - 10:15


Break

10:15 - 11:00


Featured Speaker

Opening Proprietary Protocols to Achieve Interoperability
Jim Pinkerton, Partner Architect, Storage Solutions Division, Microsoft Corporation

11:00 - 12:30


Panel Discussion

Cloud Storage – Silver Lining or Lead Balloon?

Moderator:
Wayne Adams, Chair, SNIA Board of Directors

Panelists:
Erik Riedel, EMC; Mark Carlson, SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative; Lew Tucker, Sun Microsystems; Gleb Budman, Backblaze

12:30 - 1:30


Lunch and Sponsor Showcase




Storage Management
Solid State Storage
iSCSI
CIFS/SMB/SMB2

1:30 - 2:20

Thin Provisioning and Reclamation of Unused Storage

Kirubakaran Kaliannan
Principal Software Engineer,
Symantec

Anirban Mukherjee
Software Engineer,
Symantec

Getting the Most Out of SSDs - IT System Optimization Best Practices

Mike Chenery
President and
Co-founder,
Pliant Technology
iSCSIsim

David Cuddihy
Principal Engineer,
ATTO Technology

Building a Clustered NAS System

Dr. Gradimir Starovic
Developer, Storage and Availability Management Group (SAMG),
Symantec

2:30 - 3:20

SMI-S Recipe Interpreter

Liu Jun Feng
Staff Software Engineer,
IBM CSTL

Differentiated Storage Services

Brian McKean
Storage Architect,
LSI

Michael Mesnier
Storage Systems Researcher,
Intel Corporation

iSCSI Testing: What are the Test Challenges Under the Hood of a 10 Gb iSCSI Storage Product Certification?

Dr. M. K Jibbe
Distinguished Engineer/Tech Manager,
LSI Corporation

DFS-N Overview and Scalability

Marcello Hasegawa
Software Engineer
Microsoft Corporation

Saad Ansari
Distributed File Systems,
Microsoft Corporation

Jose Barreto
Senior Program Manager,
Microsoft Corporation

3:20 - 3:35


Break




 
 
/etc
 

3:35 - 4:25

Challenges in SMI-S Provider Development

Govindan Nampoothiri
Software Engineer,
Wipro Technologies

Girija kumar raghav Kasinadhuni
Software Engineer,
Wipro Technologies

Methodologies for Calculating SSD Useable Life

Gary Drossel
Director VP Product Planning,
Western Digital Solid State Storage Business Unit

Storage Security Using Cryptographic Splitting

David Dodgson
Software Engineer, Unisys Corporation

SMB/CIFS Access Control and Identity Mapping in OpenSolaris

Alan Wright
Senior Staff Engineer,
Sun Microsystems

Afshin Salek
Staff Engineer,
Sun Microsystems


4:35 - 5:25

Microsoft Storage Management Update

Mohamed Lawindi
Software Development Engineer II,
Microsoft Corporation

Michael Brasher
Principal Software Development Engineer,
Microsoft Corporation

From 512 to 4K: a case study in supporting large sector size SSDs in Solaris

Bo Zhou
Sun Microsystems

Microsoft Network Monitor 3 (NM3)

Paul Long
Network Monitor Technical Evangelist
Microsoft Corporation

Permissions Mapping Between CIFS ACLs, NFSv4 ACLs and POSIX Mode Bits in Isilon's OneFS File System

Zack Kirsch
Software Development Engineer II,
Isilon Systems

Steven Danneman
Software Development Engineer II, 
Isilon Systems

5:30 - 7:30


Evening Reception - Sponsor Showcase


"Birds of a Feather" - "Host your own BoF!"

7:30 - 8:30


BOF - onsite signup

8:30 - 9:30


BOF - onsite signup

9:30 - 10:30


BOF - onsite signup




Thursday, September 17, 2009

7:30 - 8:30


Continental Breakfast and Networking




Management
File Systems
Performance
Windows 7

8:30 - 9:20

DMTF Profiles for Storage

John Crandall
Network and Storage Management,
Office of the CTO,
Brocade

Reliable Locking for Clustered NFS Servers

Brad Boyer
Sr. Principal Software Engineer,
Symantec

Paul Massiglia
Technical Director,
Symantec
 

IO Performance Improvement in a Virtualized Environment

Masroor VP
Senior System Engineer,
Wipro Technologies

Anil Gurumurthy
Architect,
Wipro Technologies

ATA Trim/Delete Notification Support in Windows 7

Neal Christiansen
Principal Development Lead, Microsoft Corporation




Professional Development
   
Open Source

9:30 - 10:20

Building Trust within the Team

David Deming
President,
Solution Technology

NFS on the Fast Track -
Fine Tuning and Futures


Bikash Roy Choudhury
Solutions Architect,
NetApp

Best of FAST

Award winning paper from the USENIX File & Storage Technology Conference!

CA-NFS: A Congestion-Aware Network File System

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Dr. Alexandros Batsakis
Member of the Technical Staff,
NetApp

Orchestrating Open Source Components for Home SANs

Abhinav Jawadekar
Founder,
Sound Paradigm Software Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd.

10:20 - 10:35


Break

10:35 - 11:25

Global Team Management Best Practices

Abhinav Jawadekar
Founder,
Sound Paradigm Software Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd.

Tom Hickman
Founder,
Inside Outsource Consulting

pNFS: Blending Performance and Manageability

Lisa Week
Software/Kernel Engineer,
Sun Microsystems

Piyush Shivam
Software/Kernel Engineer,
Sun Microsystems

Best of FAST

Award winning paper from the USENIX File & Storage Technology Conference!

Generating Realistic Impressions for File-System Benchmarking

Nitin Agrawal
PhD Candidate,
University of Wisconsin

Integrated Open Source & Proprietary Storage Solutions

Vivek Srinivasa, Tata Consultancy Services

11:25


Sessions Conclude

1:00


Plugfests Conclude




Hot Spares

FCoE
Green
Storage Management
New Test Challenges on FCoE

Chris Cicchetti
Product Marketing Manager
JDSU Corporation

"Greening" Storage Through I/O Virtualization

Richard Solomon
Host Interface Architect
LSI Corporation

SAN Simulation

Ramani Routray
Senior Software Engineer
IBM

CIFS
SSD


Caching SMB Data for Offline Access and an Improved Online Experience

Molly Brown
Principal Development Lead
Microsoft Corporation

Do Virtualization and SSD Prove Advantageous for Storage Products with High Speed Interfaces in a SAN Environment?

Dr. M. K Jibbe
Distinguished Engineer/Tech Manager
LSI Corporation

   



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CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest Underwriter
XAM Plugfest Underwriter

Gold Sponsor

Silver Sponsors


Media Sponsors
Association Sponsors



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