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2010 Storage Developer Conference Agenda

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

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Monday, September 20, 2010

7:30 - 8:45


Continental Breakfast and Networking

7:30


Registration Opens





Standards to Solutions
File System
Cloud
CIFS/SMB/SMB2

8:30 - 9:20

FC-BB-6: New FCoE Functionality

David Peterson
Senior Advisory Engineer,
Brocade
ZFS What's New

Jeff Bonwick
Distinguished Engineer,
Oracle
The Evolution of Cloud Storage - From "Disk Drive in the Sky" to "Storage Array in the Sky"

Dan Decasper
Co-founder and CEO
Cirtas

Allen Samuels
Co -founder,
Cirtas

Are We There Yet: The Long and Winding Road to SMB/CIFS Specifications

Christopher R. Hertel
Storage Architect and CIFS Geek,
ubiqx Consulting, Inc

José Rivera
SA3G,
ubiqx Consulting, Inc

9:30 - 10:20

The Pieces to Managing FCoE

John Crandall
Architect, Technology and Standards, Network and Storage Management,
Brocade

ZFS Advanced

Jeff Bonwick
Vice President and Senior Software Architect,
Oracle
CDMI Specification for Developers

Mark Carlson
Senior Architect,
Oracle

MS-FSA: Describing wire visible behavior of Microsoft File Systems

Neal Christiansen
Principal Software Development Lead,
Microsoft

10:20 - 10:35


Break

10:35 - 11:25

iSCSI and FCOE Testings: What are the Test Challenges Under the Hood of a 10 Gb iSCSI and a 10G FCOE Storage Array Product Certification?

Mahmoud Jibbe
Distinguished Engineer/ Quality Technologist,
LSI Corporation

pNFS Development Status

Brent Welch
Director Software Architecture,
Panasas

Developing with CDMI

David Slik
Technology Architect,
NetApp

CIFS Map of Solaris

Jiri Sasek
Ing. (Engineer),
Oracle

11:35 - 12:25

SMI-S Over WS-Management: A Progress Report

Josh Cohen
Senior Program Manager,
Microsoft

OpenAFS: Ten Years of Open Source Storage Systems

Jeffrey Altman
Gatekeeper and Elder,
OpenAFS
Developing a Cloud Client

David Moolennar
CTO,
R2AD, LLC

Michael Behrens
CTO
R2AD, LLC

A Comparison Between the Samba 3 and Likewise Lwiod SMB File Servers

Steven Danneman
Software Development Engineer II,
Isilon Systems

12:30 - 1:30


Lunch

1:30 - 2:20

Tutorial: “Green Storage is About More Than kWh!”

SW Worth
Sr. Standards Program Manager,
Microsoft
Building Windows File Systems: A Look at the OpenAFS Client for Windows

Peter Scott
Consulting Partner,
Kernel Drivers

Jeff Altman
President,
Your File System Inc

CDMI Clients

Rich Ramos
Chief Technologist,
Consultant

Status of Clustered CIFS Using Samba

Volker Lendecke
Samba Team / SerNet

2:30 - 3:20

Energy Management: The Key to an Effective Storage Consolidation Strategy

Joe Polastre
CTO & Co-founder,
Sentilla Corporation

Ultra High-Speed Transport Over WAN

Michelle Munson
CEO & Co-founder,
Aspera

The Cloud Data Management Interface Reference Implementation

Scott Baker
Technologist

IPv6 and Samba/SMB

David Holder,
Erion

3:20 - 3:35


Break

3:35 - 4:25

Introducing and Validating SNIA SSS Performance Test Suite

Esther Spanjer
Director, SSD Technical Marketing,
SMART Modular
Optimizing Disk Layouts for Mixed Sequential Read Workloads

Rickard Faith,
Sr. Member Technical Staff
NetApp

Implementing CDMI for Developers

Mark Carlson
Senior Architect,
Oracle

Implementing SMB2 Within Samba

Jeremy Allison
Engineer,
Google

4:35 - 5:25

Trends in Solid State Storage

Jeff Kimmel
Senior Technical Director,
NetApp

Issues When Implementating Data Reduction Technologies and Deduplication: Doing Dedupe Right

Jeff Tofano
Chief Technical Officer,
Quantum Corporation

Cloud Storage - Hands on Lab for Developers (HoLD)


SMB2 Meets Linux: Developing the SMB2 and CIFS Kernel Clients for Linux

Steve French
IBM - Linux Technology Center

5:30 - 6:30





Cloud Storage - Hands on Lab for Developers (HoLD) (continued)


Introduction to the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest

6:30 - 7:30


Plugfest Open House & Reception




Tuesday, September 21, 2010

7:30 - 8:15


Continental Breakfast and Networking

8:15 - 8:30


Welcome Remarks

Wayne Adams, Chair, SNIA Board; EMC
Mark Carlson,SDC Program Committee Chair; Oracle

8:30 - 9:15


Keynote Speaker

Pending Speaker Confirmation

9:15-10:00


Featured Speaker

Pending Speaker Confirmation

10:00-10:15


Break

10:15-11:00


Featured Speaker

Pending Speaker Confirmation

11:00-11:45


Featured Speaker

Pending Speaker Confirmation

11:45-1:00


Lunch (Terra Courtyard)




Solid State
Filesystem
Cloud
CIFS/SMB/SMB2

1:00 - 1:50

Storage Acceleration, Driven by Autonomic Software

Sam Siewert
Chief Technology Officer,
Atrato, Inc.

NFS in Windows Platform

Jeff Biseda
Senior Software Development Engineer,
Microsoft
Facilitating the Open Source Community Transition to Cloud Storage

Giorgio Regni
CTO,
Scality

Brad King
Director Customer Architectures,
Scality

Interoperability Tools for CIFS/SMB/SMB2

Paul Long
Technology Evangelist Winterop Engineering Team,
Microsoft

Simon Sun
Software Design Engineer,
Microsoft

2:00 - 2:50

The Write Endurance of SSDs - Is MLC NAND Fit for Data Centers?

Avraham Meir
CTO,
Anobit

The Metadata Problem - Understanding the Issues and How to Address Them

Anand Babu Periasamy
CTO & Co-Founder,
Gluster

Leveraging Cloud Storage through Mobile Applications Using Mezeo Cloud Storage REST APIs

John Eastman
CTO,
Mezeo Software

SMB Traffic Analyzer - Monitor the Data Flow of Samba Servers

Holger Hetterich
Level 3 Support Engineer / Samba Developer,
Novell

2:50 - 3:05


Break

3:05 - 3:55

Flash and the Architecture of Storage Systems

Avraham Meir
CTO,
Anobit

RESTful Filesystems

James Cain
Principal Software Architect,
Quantel Limited

Use Case: Storage Management and Monitoring Interface via REST

Butch Clark
Engineering Manager / Team Lead,
Xiotech
Evaluating SMB2 Performance for Home Directory Workloads

David Kruse
Principal Developer Lead Software Developer,
Microsoft

Dan Lovinger
Senior Software Design Engineer,
Microsoft

4:05 - 4:55

Hybrid Storage Architecture Marries Performance and Efficiency

Bill Mottram
VP of Marketing
Atrato, Inc

Database Techniques to Manage a Distributed POSIX Namespace and Associated Metadata

David Boomer
Information Architect,
IBM

Using SMI-S with the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI)

Scott Baker
Technologist

Scaling Likewise-CIFS Beyond 50k Concurrent Connections on a Single Node

Gerald Carter
Senior Software Design Engineer,
Likewise Software

5:00 - 7:00


Welcome Reception - Sponsor Showcase


"Birds of a Feather"

7:00 - 8:00


BoF - "How to participate in SNIA Standards Development"

Arnold Jones
Technical Council Managing Director
SNIA



BoF - "SMI-S and the Role of the Storage Management Initiative"

Steve Peters
Project Lead
PMC-Sierra


8:00 - 9:00


BoF - "Data and Storage Management for Quantum Computing"

Lei Liu
Principal Engineer
Oracle Corporation


BoF - "Long Term Information Retention"

Sam Fineberg
Distinguished Technologist
Hewlett-Packard

9:00 - 10:00


BoF - Available


BoF - Available




Wednesday, September 22, 2010

7:30 - 8:15


Continental Breakfast and Networking

8:15 - 8:30


Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements

Mark Carlson, SDC Program Committee Chair;

8:30 -  9:15


Keynote Speaker

Pending Speaker Confirmation

9:15 - 10:00


Featured Speaker

Pending Speaker Confirmation

10:00 - 10:15


Break

10:15 - 11:00


Featured Speaker

Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro, HP

11:00 - 11:45


Featured Speaker

Pending Speaker Confirmation

11:45 - 1:00


Lunch and Sponsor Showcase




Storage Management
Virtualization
Cloud
CIFS/SMB/SMB2

1:00 - 1:50

Process of Generating Power from Hard disk Vibration in Datacenters

Senthilkumar Vijayakumar
TATA Consultancy Services

Developing Storage Architectures for a Virtual World

Alex Miroshnichenko
CTO,
Virsto Software
CDMI and Cloud Federation

David Slik
Technology Architect,
NetApp

Embedded Private Cloud Storage Using Samba and Ceph

Kai Blin
Samba Team

2:00 - 2:50

SMI-S Client and Server Development, from Check Box to Industrial Strength

Steve Peters
Project lead,
PMC-Sierra

"Sparse Storage" for VMs - Often Overlooked Facts

Dilip Naik
Managing Partner,
VMUtil Inc

Hadoop File System Internals

Dhruba Borthakur
Project Lead, Apache Hadoop DFS,
Facebook

Identity Mapping for Windows+UNIX Environments

Jordan Brown
Principal Software Engineer,
Oracle

2:50 - 3:05


Break

3:05 - 3:55

Embedded SMI-S Lessons Learned

Art Colvig
Software Engineer,
IBM

LSI’s VMware vCenter Plug-In: A Study in the Use of Open Source Software

Brian Mason
Staff Software Engineer,
LSI

Erik Johannes
Staff Software Engineer,
LSI

Designing Secure Storage for the Cloud

Jesus Molina
Security Researcher,
Fujitsu America

Unix Extensions for SMB2 - A Protocol Initiative

Tom Talpey
Architect,
Microsoft

4:05 - 4:55

Automatic Generation of SMI Providers

David Dodgson
Software Engineer,
Unisys

Improve Storage Efficiency on Deploying Oracle Databases for Dev/Test in a Virtualized Environment Over NFS

Bikash Roy Choudhury
NetApp

Cloud Security Using Information Dispersal

Julie Bellanca
Founder & Director,
Cleversafe

Jason Resch
Sr. Software Engineer
Cleversafe
Analyzing Metadata Caching in the Windows SMB2 Client

Mathew George
Sr. Software Development Engineer,
Microsoft

David Kruse
Principal Developer Lead Software Developer,
Microsoft


"Birds of a Feather"

7:00 - 8:00


BoF - Cloud Storage vs Object Storage

Jerome Lecat, CEO Scality


BoF - The Latest Updates on Fibre Channel

Greg McSorely, Fibre Channel Industry Association

8:00 - 9:00


BoF - Best of FAST
Award winning paper from the USENIX File & Storage Technology Conference!
"Membrane: Operating System Support for Restartable File Systems"


BoF - Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager v.Next - Using SMI-S to Discover and Provision Storage in a Heterogeneous Environment for Virtualization Workloads

with Hector Linares, Program Manager - System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Microsoft

9:00 - 10:00


BoF - Best of FAST
Award winning paper from the USENIX File & Storage Technology Conference!
"quFiles: The Right File at the Right Time"

Kaushik Veeraraghavan



BoF - Available




Thursday, September 23, 2010

7:30 - 8:30


Continental Breakfast and Networking

8:15 - 8:30


Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements

Mark Carlson, SDC Program Committee Chair;

8:30 - 9:20


Keynote

Partly Cloudy Business and Innovation in the Internet Era
Geoffrey Moore, Managing Partner, TSG Advisors



Block Storage
Security
Hot Topic
Virtualization

9:30 - 10:20

Analyzing Large-scale Network Boot Workload for Windows

Qiang Wang
Development Lead,
Microsoft Corporation

Seven Myths About Storage Encryption

Dmitry Oblukhov
Firmware Security Manager,
SandForce Inc.

KMIP - Key Management Interoperability Protocol Implementation Guidance

Gordon Arnold
Senior Technical Staff,
IBM

Larry Hofer,
Emulex
I/O resource Management and Prioritization in Virtual Environments with Shared Storage

Chethan Kumar
Senior Member of Technical Staff,
VMware

10:20 - 10:30


Break




   
Best Practices in Storage Testing
Advances in Hardware

10:30 - 11:20

Software FCoE – A Case Study

Sudheer Nair
Technical Architect,
Patni Americas Inc

Manu Gupta
Technical Architect,
Patni Americas Inc

The Self- Encrypting Hard and SSD Drive Revolution: Managing the Data at Rest Solutions

Robert Thibadeau
Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist,
Wave Systems, Corp.

BUGS...Catch them before they catch you! A Survey of Storage Test Tools and Industry Best Practices

Peter Murray
Product Manager,
SwiftTest

Alan Newman
Vice President Marketing
SwiftTest

Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) and iSCSI – Uncompromised Performance for Virtual Server Environments

Leonid Grossman
Vice President, Software Engineering,
Exar

11:25 - 12:15

PCI Express I/O Virtualization Explained

Richard Solomon
Host Interface Architect,
LSI



Pending Speaker Information
Error Injection on an Emulated Virtual SCSI Disk

Pulkit Tanwar
Software Engineer,
Wipro Technologies

SAS Technical Update and Advanced Connectivity Roadmap

Marty Czekalski
Vice President,
SCSI Trade Association SCSI Trade Association

Jay Neer
Member Representative
SCSI Trade Association

12:15


Sessions Conclude

1:00


Plugfest Conclude





Sponsors of the 2010 Storage Developer Conference Include:

Platinum Sponsor

Gold Sponsor

Silver Sponsors

CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest Underwriter

Media Sponsors
Association Sponsors