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Tuesday, September 20, 2011 |
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7:30 - 8:45 |
Continental Breakfast and Networking |
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8:45 - 9:00 |
Welcome Remarks Wayne Adams, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors Richelle Ahlvers, Chairperson, SNIA Technical Council |
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9:00 - 9:50 |
Featured Speaker Linux File & Storage Systems: Enabling the Latest Storage Hardware in Linux Ric Wheeler, File System Team Manager and Architect, Red Hat |
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9:50-10:40 |
Featured Speakers The Future of File Protocols: SMB 2.2 in the Data Center Dr. Thomas Pfenning, General Manager, Microsoft Jim Pinkerton, Partner Architect, File Server Technologies, Microsoft |
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10:40-11:10 |
Networking Break and Sponsor Showcase Open |
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11:10-12:00 |
Featured Speaker Scalable Table Stores: Tools for Understanding Advanced Key-Value Systems for Hadoop Garth Gibson, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, and CTO, Panasas Inc |
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12:00-1:00 |
Lunch and Sponsor Showcase (Mezzanine) |
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Cloud |
File Systems |
Data Management |
CIFS/SMB/SMB2 |
Security |
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1:00 - 1:50 |
Resilience at Scale in the Distributed Storage Cloud Alma Riska Consultant Software Engineer, EMC |
Windows 8: Storage Provisioning and Management Shiv Rajpal Principal Development Lead, Microsoft |
Long Term Information Retention Dr. Sam Fineberg Information Management Chief Technologist, HP Software Simona Rabinovici-Cohen Research Staff Member, IBM Research - Haifa |
SMB 2.2: Bigger. Faster. Scalier - (Parts 1 and 2) David Kruse Principal Development Lead, Microsoft |
Using Protocol Fuzzing to Harden Storage Systems and to Protect Them from 0-day Attacks Mikko Varpiola Senior Security Expert, Codenomicon |
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2:00 - 2:50 |
Changing Requirements for Distributed File Systems in Cloud Storage Wesley Leggette Cleversafe, Inc |
A Lightweight Layered Compressed File System with Hardware Acceleration Shirish Phatak VP of Technology Shirish Phatak, Altior, Inc |
Open Unified Data Protection and Business Continuity Dr. Anupam Bhide CEO/Founder, Calsoft Inc |
SMB 2.2: Bigger. Faster. Scalier - (Parts 1 and 2) Mathew George Sr. Software Development Engineer, Microsoft |
Adding Role Based Access Control onto a Unix Storage Platform Steven Danneman Senior Software Developer, Isilon Systems |
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2:50 - 3:05 |
Break |
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Cloud |
File Systems |
Data Management |
CIFS/SMB/SMB2 |
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3:05 - 3:55 |
Best Practices in Designing Cloud Storage Based Archival Solution Jim Rice Principal Engineer, EMC |
Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Dr. David Pease Senior Technical Staff Member, Manager, IBM |
A Centralized Data Protection Application for Cross Vendor Storage Systems Nishi Gupta Tata Consultancy Services Prateek Sinha Storage Solutions Developer, Tata Consultancy Services |
Advancements in Backup to Support Application Storage on a File Server Molly Brown Principal Development Lead, Microsoft |
A Case Study: Unique NAS Issues and Solutions at The MathWorks Ira Cooper Senior Systems Software Engineer, The MathWorks, Inc |
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4:05 - 4:55 |
Tape’s Role in the Cloud Chris Marsh Market Development Manager, Spectra Logic |
Interoperability Tools for CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Paul Long Technical Evangelist, Microsoft |
FCoE Direct End-Node to End-Node (aka FCoE VN2VN) John Hufferd Owner, Hufferd Enterprises |
SMB 2.2 OVER RDMA Thomas Talpey Software Architect, Microsoft Kramer, Ph.D. Software Development Engineer, Microsoft |
Deep Dive into CIM Client Development with SBLIM Brian Mason MTS SW 4, NetApp |
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5:00 - 7:00 |
Welcome Reception - Sponsor Showcase |
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7:00-9:00 |
"Birds of a Feather" Sessions |
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011 |
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7:30-8:45 |
Continental Breakfast and Networking |
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8:45-9:00 |
Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Wayne Adams, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors Richelle Ahlvers, Chairperson, SNIA Technical Council |
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9:00-9:50 |
Featured Speaker Evolving Enterprise Storage Models Resulting from the Flash Revolution Andy Walls, Distinguished Engineer and Technical Lead, IBM |
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9:50-10:40 |
Featured Speaker Leveraging the Cloud for Your Storage Needs Bret Piatt, Director of Corporate Development, Rackspace |
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10:40-11:10 |
Networking Break and Sponsor Showcase Open |
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11:10-12:00 |
Food Fight Panel NFSv4.1 Implementation/Adoption: The Challenges Ahead |
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12:00-1:00 |
Lunch and Sponsor Showcase |
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NFS |
File Systems |
Data Management |
CIFS/SMB/SMB2 |
Storage Management |
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1:00-1:50 |
NFS High Availability in Windows Roopesh Battepati Principal Development Lead, Microsoft |
Implementing Alternate Data Streams in Likewise Storage Services Wei Fu Software Design Engineer, Likewise Software Gerald Carter Director of Engineering, Likewise Software |
Understanding Primary Storage Optimization Options Jered Floyd Chief Technology Officer and Founder, Permabit |
SMB2: Advancements for WAN Molly Brown Principal Development Lead, Microsoft Mathew George Sr. Software Development Engineer, Microsoft |
Implementing a SMI-S Provider from Checkbox to Industrial Strength Steve Peters Storage Management Software, PMC-Sierra |
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2:00-2:50 |
NFSv3 and SMB/SMB2 Interoperability in Likewise Storage Services Evgeny Popovich Senior Software Engineer, Likewise Software |
Panel: User mode vs Kernel mode filesystem development Audience Participation actively encouraged! |
Etracker: Track Files on Your Laptop and Enhance Your Storage Using Email Uttam Kaushik Manager, Engineering, EMC |
Converting an Enterprise Application to Run on CIFS/SMB/SMB2 File Access Protocols Kevin Farlee Storage Engine Program Manager, SQL Server, Microsoft |
Proxy Providers versus Embedded Providers (SMI-S) Srinivasa Reddy Gandlaparthi Software Architect, NetApp |
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2:50-3:05 |
Break |
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NFS |
Hot Topics in Storage |
Green |
CIFS/SMB/SMB2 |
Storage Management |
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3:05-3:55 |
IETF NFSv4 Working Group: What's Next? Spencer Shepler Performance Architect, Microsoft |
Advanced Format in Legacy Infrastructures – Disruptive or Transparent? Curtis Stevens Western Digital |
A Method to Vary the Host Interface Signaling Speeds in a Storage Array Driving Towards Greener Storage Dr. M. K. Jibbe Technical Director, NetApp Arun Rajendran Software Engineer, NetApp |
Thinking Inside the Box: Embedded Active Directory / Storage Appliances Based on Samba Kai Blin Embedded Developer, Samba Team |
“Windows Server 8” and SMB 2.2 - Advancements in Management Jose Barreto Principal Program Manager, Microsoft |
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4:05-4:55 |
Scale-out NAS with NFS Referrals and pNFS Dmitry Yusupov Vice President Software, Founder, Nexenta Systems |
Programmable I/O Controllers as Data Center Sensor Networks: Build and Deliver High-Performance Network and Storage Solutions Sanjeev Datla Senior Director Engineering, Emulex Shaun Walsh VP Marketing, Emulex |
Vibration Management System for Storage Performance Gus Malek-Madani CTO and Founder, Green Platform Corporation |
Accelerating SMB2 Mark Rabinovich R&D Manager, Visuality Systems |
Microsoft SMI-S Roadmap Update Jeff Goldner Principal Architect, Microsoft |
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"Birds of a Feather" Sessions |
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7:00-8:00 |
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8:00-9:00 |
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Thursday, September 22, 2011 |
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7:30 - 8:30 |
Continental Breakfast and Networking |
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8:15 - 8:30 |
Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Wayne Adams, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors Richelle Ahlvers, Chairperson, SNIA Technical Council |
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8:45 - 9:35 |
Closing Keynote Speaker Apache Hadoop Today and Tomorrow Eric Baldeschwieler, CEO, Hortonworks |
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Virtualization |
Hot Topics in Storage |
Testing |
Performance |
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9:45 - 10:35 |
Advancements in Hyper-V Storage Todd Harris Sr. Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Senthil Rajaram Senior Program Manager, Microsoft |
The Role of InfiniBand and Automated Data Tiering in Achieving Extreme Storage Performance Cynthia Mcguire Principal Software Engineer, Oracle |
RESTful Fault Injector Jim Rice Principal Engineer, EMC |
Pending Speaker Information |
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10:35 - 10:45 |
Break |
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Virtualization |
Best of FAST |
Testing |
Performance |
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10:45 - 11:35 |
NAS for Server Virtualization Dennis Chapman Senior Technical Director, NetApp |
Emulating Goliath Storage Systems with David Leo Prasath Arulraj Software Development Engineer, Amazon Award winning paper from the USENIX File & Storage Technology Conference |
Challenges of Testing Unified Storage Peter Murray Product Manager, SwiftTest |
Performence Analysis of iSCSI & iSER in MPIO Environment Seikh Basiruddin Member Technical Staff, NetApp |
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11:40 - 12:30 |
Benefits of ARI support in Virtualization Sivakumar Subramani Senior Project Leader, Wipro Technologies |
A Study of Practical Deduplication Bill Bolosky Member, Microsoft Research Award winning paper from the USENIX File & Storage Technology Conference |
An Extensible Open-Source ISCSI & SCSI Test Tool Richard Sharpe Architect, Scale Computing |
SMB2: Advancements in Server Application Performance Dan Lovinger Principal Software Architect, Microsoft |
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12:30 |
Sessions Conclude |
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1:00 |
Plugfests Conclude |
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If you or your company are interested in participating in a BOF session, contact Arnold Jones at arnold.jones@snia.org