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SPDEcon Agenda

 

Agenda times are subject to change.

Monday   |   Tuesday   |   Wednesday


Monday, June 10, 2013
 

7:30 - 8:15


Continental Breakfast and Networking
 

8:45 - 9:00



Welcome Remarks
Wayne Adams, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors

9:00 - 9:45


State of the Stack
Randy Bias, Co-Founder and CTO, Cloudscaling

9:45-10:25


Enterprise Flash and Virtualization: Choosing Your Path
Rich Petersen, Director Software Marketing, SanDisk

10:25-10:40


Break
 

10:40-11:20


Pending speaker confirmation

11:20-12:00


The New European Data Protection Regulation - Why You Should Care
Gilles Chekroun, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems Belgium

12:00-1:00


Lunch
 



 

Storage Plumbing

Solid State

File Storage

Cloud Storage

Data Engineering

1:00 - 1:50

PCI Express and Its' Interface to Storage Architectures

Ron Emerick
Principal HW Engineer,
Oracle
The State of Solid State Storage

Jim Handy
Director,
Objective Analysis
SMB Remote File Protocol (including SMB 3.0)

Jose Barreto
Principal Program Manager,
Microsoft Corporation
Interoperable Cloud Storage with the CDMI Standard

Mark Carlson
Principal Member of Technical Staff,
Oracle
Introduction to Data Protection

Gene Nagle
VP Technical Services,
BridgeStor

Thomas Rivera
Sr. Technical Associate, File, Content & Cloud Solutions,
Hitachi Data Systems



 

2:00 - 2:50

PCIe Storage Technology Overview

David Deming
CCO,
Solution Technology
Benefits of Flash in Enterprise Storage Systems

David Dale
Director Industry Standards,
NetApp
Building a successful storage product with Samba

Jeremy Allison
Engineer,
Google
Implementing a Private Cloud

Alex McDonald
CTO Office,
NetApp
Trends in Data Protection

Jason Iehl
Manager - Systems Engineering,
NetApp

2:50 - 3:05


Break
 

3:05 - 3:55

SAS: The Emerging Storage Fabric

Pending SCSI Trade Association (STA) Speaker Confirmation
Can SSDs Achieve HDD Price, Capacity and Performance Parity?

Radoslav Danilak
Co-founder & CEO
Skyera
Practical Steps to Implementing pNFS and NFSv4.1

Alex McDonald
CTO Office,
NetApp
Hybrid Clouds in the Data Center - The End State

Michael Elliott
Enterprise Cloud Evangelist,
Dell
The Changing Role of Data Protection in a Virtualized World

Thomas Rivera
Sr. Technical Associate, File, Content & Cloud Solutions,
Hitachi Data Systems

Gene Nagle
VP Technical Services,
BridgeStor

4:05 - 4:55

SCSI Express: Fast & Reliable Flash Storage for the Enterprise


Pending SCSI Trade Association (STA) Speaker Confirmation
SSDs: Speeding Up Data Center Disruption


Khye Wei
Flash Product Planning Mgr. (Technical)
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc
Massively Scalable File Storage

Philippe Nicolas
Director of Product Strategy,
Scality
Windows Azure Storage - Speed and Scale in the Cloud

Joe Giardino
Senior Development Lead - Windows Azure Storage,
Microsoft
Tape Storage for the Uninitiated

David Pease
IBM Distinguished Engineer,
IBM Almaden Research Center


 


 


Tuesday, June 11, 2013
 

7:30-8:45


Continental Breakfast and Networking
 

8:45-9:00



Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements
Wayne Adams, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors

9:00-9:45


Pending speaker confirmation

9:45-10:25


Active Archive Strategies and Media Choices for Long Term Data Retention
Stacy Schwarz-Gardner, Strategic Technical Architect, Spectra Logic

10:25-10:40


Break
 

10:40-11:20


Open Data Center Alliance: Smooth Scaling
David Casper, Executive Director, UBS

11:20-12:15


Featured Panel: Pending Panel confirmation

12:15-1:15


Lunch and Sponsor Showcase
 



 

Storage Plumbing

Solid State

Storage Performance

Cloud Storage

Data Engineering

1:15-2:05

Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

John Hufferd
President,
Hufferd Enterprises
Optimizing the Data Center with Solid State Solutions in Light of the Mobile Data Boom

Aaron Olbrich
Senior Fellow,
SanDisk
Storage Performance Analysis

Lee Donnahoo
Storage Architect,
Microsoft Global Foundation Services
Ceph: A Unified Distributed Storage System

Sage Weil
Founder & CTO,
Inktank
Retention Issues within the World of Healthcare

Gary Woodruff
Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
Sutter Health

2:15-3:05

How VN2VN Will Help Accelerate Adoption of FCoE

Simon Gordon
Product Manager,
EMC

David Fair
ESF- Board of Directors, Unified Networking Marketing Manager
Intel
Designing in Flash in the Data Center (or How I learned to Love Flash)

Sachin Chheda
Product and Solution Manager,
Nimble Storage
SAN Protocol Analysis and Performance Management

Robert Finlay
Business Development Manager
JDSU

Pending Speaker Confirmation

Best Practices for Storing Massive Quantities of Long Term Retention Data

Floyd Christofferson
Board Member
Active Archive Alliance

3:05-3:20


Break
 



 

Storage Plumbing

Solid State

Storage Performance

VDI Storage

Data Engineering

3:20-4:10

The Time for 16Gb Fibre Channel is Now


Pending Fibre Channel Industry Alliance (FCIA) Speaker Confirmation
Enhanced SSD with I/O Management

Jiho Hwang
Senior Engineer
Samsung Electronics
The Plumbing Power: Open Source Technologies and Market Products Together to Create a Scale-Out (layered specialized) Storage Solution, Delivering Unprecedented Performance, Scalability, Data Protection and Lowering Datacenter and Storage Acquisition Costs.

Marcelo Leal
Storage Architect Locaweb
VDI & Storage: Tools, techniques and architectural considerations for performance

Russ Fellows
Sr. Partner
Evaluator Group
Combining SNIA Cloud, Tape and Container Format Technologies for the Long Term Retention of Big Data

Gene Nagle
VP Technical Services
BridgeStor

4:20-5:10

Network Convergence at Blazing Speeds with Fibre Channel over Ethernet


Pending Fibre Channel Industry Alliance (FCIA) Speaker Confirmation
Properly Testing SSDs For Steady State Performance

Doug Rollins
Sr. Applications Engineer
Micron Technology
Workload Mixology

Kirill Malkin
CTO
Starboard Storage


Pending Speaker Confirmation
What's Old is New Again - Storage Tiering

Thomas Rivera
Sr. Technical Associate, File, Content & Cloud Solutions
Hitachi Data Systems


 



Wednesday, June 12, 2013
 

7:00 - 8:00


Continental Breakfast and Networking
 



 

Storage Plumbing

Solid State

Storage Performance

Virtualization

Security

8:30-9:20

Overview of Data Center Networks

Joseph White
Distinguished Engineer
Juniper Networks
The Anatomy of an Enterprise Storage Stack

Doug Dumitru
CTO
EasyCo LLC
Oracle Databases on vSphere 5 with EMC Storage and Cisco UCS

Kannan Mani
Sr. Technical Solutions Architect
Vmware
Solid State of Affairs: The Benefits and Challenges of SSDs in vSphere Datacenters

John Blumenthal
CEO,
CloudPhysics
Storage Security Risk Assestments and Mitigation

Lee Donnahoo
Storage Architect Microsoft Global Foundation Services

9:25-10:15

RDMA Interconnects for Storage: Technology Update and Use Scenarios

Erin Filliater
Enterprise Market Development Manager
Mellanox Technologies
Flash vs. DRAM - It's Not Always about Storage

Jim Handy
Director,
Objective Analysis
Putting on the Flash - Using Flash Technology to Accelerate Databases

Michael Ault
Oracle Flash Consulting Manager
IBM
Virtual Storage in a VMware Evaluation Environment

Vince Asbridge
Director of Systems and Software,
SANBlaze Technology
Securing File Data in a Distributed or Mobile World

Chris Winter
Director, Product Management
SafeNet

10:15-10:30


Break
 



 

Storage Plumbing

Big Data

Storage Performance

Open Source and Management

Security

10:30-11:20

NVM Express: Optimizing for PCIe SSD Performance


David Akerson
Strategic Marketing Engineer
Intel
Introduction to Analytics and Big Data - Hadoop

Rob Peglar
CTO, Americas
EMC Isilon
You Know SSD’s Make MySQL Fast, But Do You Know Why?

Jared Hulbert
Software Development Manager
Micron Technology
Open Source Storage Opportunities and Limitations

Thomas Coughlin
President
Coughlin Associates
Implementing Kerberos authentication in the Large-Scale Production NFS Environment

Gregory Touretsky
Solutions Architect
Intel

11:25-12:15

Defining Software Defined Storage

Lazarus Vekiarides
Executive Director Software Engineering,
Dell
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), to Centralize or not to Centralize?!

Sreevathsa Doddadalapur
Mellanox Technologies Inc
Architecting Flash-based Caching for Storage Acceleration

Cameron Brett
Director of Solutions Marketing
Qlogic
Puppet for Networking Infrastructure, Steps Towards Frictionless IT Automation

Jeremy Schulman
Juniper Networks
Consumerization of Trusted Computing

Dr. Michael Willett
Storage Security Strategist
Samsung

12:20-1:10

The OpenDaylight Project: An Open Source path to a Unified SDN Controller

Thomas Nadeau
Distinguished Engineer
Juniper Networks
Big Data: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You.

Jim McGann
Vice President
Index Engines
A Close Look at Hybrid Storage Performance

Kirill Malkin
CTO
Starboard Storage
SMI-S; Manage all the things

Chris Lionetti
NetApp
Server, App, Disk, Switch, or OS - Where is My Encryption?

Chris Winter
Director Product Management
SafeNet

1:10


Sessions Conclude