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Tuesday, April 7, 2015
 

7:30 - 8:30


Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
 

 


Breakout Sessions
 

 


Solid State Storage

Disaster Recovery

Networking

Security

Storage Management

8:30 - 9:10

The Future of Flash in the Data Center: A Crash Course on Flash-Based Architectures and Next-Gen Design

Brian Evans
Global Director Flash,
HGST


Introduction to Data Protection: Backup to Tape, Disk and Beyond

Thomas Rivera
Senior Technical Associate,
HDS

Next Generation Storage Networking for Next Generation Data Centers

Dennis Martin
President,
Demartek

Hackers, Attack Anatomy & Security Trends

Ted Harrington
Executive Partner,
Independent Security Evaluators

Storage Strategy Development
Part 1: Understanding Needs and Developing Requirements

Randy Kerns
Senior Strategist,
Evaluator Group

9:15 - 9:55

Application Acceleration Using Flash Memory

Saeed Raja
Director of Product Marketing and Management,
SanDisk


Data Protection in Transition to the Cloud

David Chapa
CTE,
Seagate

Next Generation Low Latency Storage Area Networks

Rupin Mohan
Senior Manager Strategy and Planning,
Hewlett-Packard

Storage Security Best Practices

Eric Hibbard
CTO Security and Privacy,
Hitachi Data Systems

Storage Strategy Development
Part 2: Evaluating, Planning and Selling the Strategy

Randy Kerns
Senior Strategist,
Evaluator Group

10:00 - 10:40

Accelerating Real-Time, Big Data Applications

Bob Hansen
VP Systems Architecture,
Apeiron Data Systems

DR in the Cloud

Ashar Baig
President, Principal Analyst and Advisor,
Analyst Connection


The Continued Evolution of Fibre Channel

Mark Jones
President
Fibre Channel Industry Association

Securing Your Data for the Journey to the Clouds

Liwei Ren
Senior Software Architect,
Trend Micro

When Data Pools Become Data Lakes: Managing and Storing Massive Quantities of Data

Molly Rector
Chief Marketing Officer,
DDN

10:40 - 10:55


Break
 

10:55 - 11:35


Solid-State Deployments - Recommendations for POC's

Russ Fellows
Senior Partner,
Evaluator Group

Case Study: How the Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation Modernized Backup

Tonia Williams
CIO & IT Director,
Housing Authority of the Cherokee Nation


SAS: The Fabric for Storage Solutions

Marty Czekalski
President,
SCSI Trade Association

Greg McSorley
Technical Business Development Manager,
Amphenol, STA Vice President

Interoperable Key Management for Storage

Tony Cox
Director Business Development, Strategy & Alliances,
Cryptsoft

DevOps and Storage Management – Improving Storage Delivery through Continuous Improvement and Automation

Derek Stadnicki
Partner,
DiscreteIO

11:40 - 12:20

The SNIA NVM ProgrammingTWG and the NVM Revolution

Walt Hubis
Owner,
Hubis Technical Associates


Performance

PCIe Shared IO

Jeff Dodson
Hardware Architect,
Avago Technologies


Implementing Stored-Data Encryption

Michael Willett
Storage Security Strategist,
Samsung


Cloud Storage
vSphere Performance

Johnathan Paul
Senior R&D Expert,
Siemens Medical Solutions

How Does the Cloud Fit into Active Archiving?

Active Archive Panel

12:20 - 1:40


Lunch and Networking in the Innovation Showcase
 

1:45 - 1:50


General Sessions

Welcome Remarks
David Dale, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors

1:50 - 2:15


Where to Now? Considerations for Storage in the New Data Center
Camberley Bates, Managing Director and Sr. Analyst, The Evaluator Group
Note: Camberley will be the DSI General Sessions Emcee and "Message-Bridger"

2:20 - 3:00


More with Less: Hardware and VM Orchestration with More Uptime, Less Futzing; More Performance, Less Hardware
Richard Kiene, Principal Engineer, Faithlife

3:05 - 3:45


Platinum Sponsor Industry and Solution Update - Topic To be Announced
Featured Speaker representing     To be Announced

3:45 - 4:00


Break
 

4:00 - 4:40


Privacy vs Data Protection
Eric Hibbard, CTO Security and Privacy, Hitachi Data Systems

4:45 - 5:25


Platinum Sponsor Industry and Solution Update - Topic To be Announced
Featured Speaker representing     To be Announced

5:30 - 7:30


Networking Reception in Innovation Showcase
 


 








Wednesday, April 8, 2015
 

7:30 - 8:45


Registration Open - Continental Breakfast and Networking
 

8:30 - 8:45


General Sessions

Welcome Back and What did We Learn from Day One...?
Camberley Bates,  Managing Director and Analyst Evaluator Group

8:45 - 9:30


Session Topic To be Announced
Featured Speaker - Industry Luminary - Awaiting Final Confirmation

9:35 - 10:15


Platinum Sponsor Industry and Solution Update - Topic To be Announced
Andrea Nelson, Director of Marketing, Storage Group, Intel

10:15 - 10:30


Break
 

10:30 - 11:10


Data End of Life in the Cloud – Why? When? and How?
Fredrik Forslund, Director - Cloud and Data Center Erasure Solutions, Blancco  

11:15 - 12:30


TBA Representatives of the ABA and e-Discovery Experts
American Bar Association e-Discovery Panel/Workshop/Mock Trial

12:30-1:40


Networking Reception in the Innovation Showcase
 

 


Breakout Sessions
 

 


Solid State Storage

Cold Storage

Security

File Systems

Hard Drives

IDC Analysts Briefings

1:45 - 2:25

Creating Higher Performance Solid State Storage with NVMe

J Metz
R&D Engineer,
Cisco

Yes, Virginia, There is USB Connectivity for an LTO Tape Drive!

Mauricio del Prado
Senior Engineer,
IBM

Encrypted Storage: Self–Encryption versus Software Solutions

Michael Willett
Storage Security Strategist,
Samsung


SMB Remote File Protocol (Including SMB 3.x)

SW Worth
Sr. Program Manager,
Microsoft

The Perennial Hard Disk Drive-The Storage Industry Workhorse

Edward Grochowski
Consultant

Thomas Coughlin
President,
Coughlin Associates

The Flash–Based Array Market

Eric Burgener
Research Director - Storage,
IDC

2:30 - 3:10

3D RRAM Towards Next Generation High Capacity Low Latency Storage Systems

Sylvain Dubois
Vice President of Strategic Marketing and Business Development,
Crossbar, Inc

Tape Storage for Cold Data Archive and Future Technologies

Osamu Shimizu
Research Engineer - Recording Media Research Laboratories,
FUJIFILM Corporation

Hitoshi Noguchi
General Manager,
FUJIFILM Corporation

A Customer’s Point of View to Self Encrypting Disks Drives and Software Based Disk Encryption

Douglas Spindler
IT Instructor,
City College San Francisco

Pending Speaker Confirmation RAIDShield: Characterizing, Monitoring, and Proactively Protecting Against Disk Failures

Ao Ma
Principal Engineer,
EMC

Adoption and Trends in Object Based Storage

Amita Potnis
Research Manager,
IDC

3:10 - 3:25


Break
 

 


Solid State Storage

Cold Storage

Cloud Storage

File Systems

Hard Drives

IDC Analysts Briefings

3:25 - 4:05

How Fast is Fast? Block IO Performance on a RAM Disk

Eden Kim
CEO,
Calypso Testers

Optical Storage - The Future of Long Term Data Preservation

Doug Ferguson
Senior Solution Consultant,
Hitachi Data Systems Federal Corporation

Optimizing the Enterprise, Lessons Learned from Deploying Private Storage Cloud

David Christel
Manager,
Unisys


NFS, pNFS and FedFS: A Modern Datacenter Network Protocol

Alex McDonald
NetApp CTO Office,
NetApp

Leveraging Ubiquitous Sensors to Predict Failures and Discover Data Center Flaws

Teague Algie
Software Developer,
Cleversafe

Data Protection 2015-2025: Fundamental Strategic Transformation

Phil Goodwin
Research Director, Storage Systems and Software,
IDC

4:10 - 4:50

Considerations to Accurately Measure Solid State Storage Systems

Leah Schoeb
Storage Solutions and Performance Manager,
Intel

Archival Disc Technology

Yoshikazu Hayashi
Manager,
Panasonic Corporation

Pending Speaker Confirmation

Hot Topics
Health Monitoring and Predictive Analytics to Lower the TCO in a Datacenter

Christian Madsen
Engineering Manager,
Seagate Technology

Andrei Khurshudov
Senior Director,
Seagate Technology

Relating Information Governance to Storage Trends

Sean Pike
Program Director for Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) and eDiscovery,
IDC

Bringing HyperScale Computing to the Enterprise : The Need for Enterprises to Overhaul Their IT Systems

Chirag Jog
VP of Engineering,
MSys and Clogeny

4:55 - 5:35


Advanced Data Dedupe

/etc
Things to Consider When Planning for File Services in a Hybrid Cloud Environment

Bernhard Behn
Principal Technical Marketing Engineer,
Avere Systems

Pending Speaker Confirmation


Green Storage
 

Advanced Data Reduction Concepts

Tom Sas
Product Manager,
Hewlett-Packard

Open Source is Changing Entire Industries

Nithya Ruff
Director - Open Source Strategy,
SanDisk

Storage Systems Can Now Get ENERGY STAR Labels and Why You Should Care

Dennis Martin
President,
Demartek

5:30 - 7:30


Networking Reception in the Innovation Showcase
 


 








Thursday, April 9, 2015
 

7:30 - 8:45


Registration Open - Continental Breakfast and Networking
 

 


Breakout Sessions
 

 


Big Data

Software Defined Storage

Cloud Storage

Performance

Distributed Storage

8:30 - 9:10

Pending Speaker Confirmation Using Software-Defined Storage to Provide a Complete BC, DR and Data Protection

Ibrahim Rahmani
Senior Technical Marketing Manager,
DataCore

Rethink Cloud Strategies for Cost Effective Enterprise Storage Management

Lazarus Vekiarides
CTO and Co-founder,
ClearSky

Flash Cache in the Data Center-The Future is Now

Wayne Lam
Chairman/CEO,
Cirrus Data Systems


Massively Scalable File Storage

Philippe Nicolas
Senior Director, Industry Strategy,
Scality

9:15 - 9:55

Solving Big Data Problems: Storage to the Rescue?

John Webster
Senior Partner,
Evaluator Group

Software Defined Storage at the Speed of Flash

Carlos Carrero
Technical Product Manager,
Symantec

Rajagopal Vaideeswaran
Principal Software Engineer,
Symantec

Whoever Owns the Data Owns the Customer

Luke Behnke
Vice President Products,
Bitcasa

Lies, Damn Lies, and Performance Metrics

Barry Cooks
Vice President of Engineering,
Virtual Instruments


Using Leading-Edge Building Blocks to Deploy Scale-out Data Infrastructure

Craig Dunwoody
CTO,
GraphStream Incorporated

10:00 - 10:40

Why Scale-Out Big Data Apps Need A New Scale-Out Storage

Rob Whiteley
Vice President, Marketing,
Hedvig

Deploying VDI with Software-Defined Storage and Hyper-convergence

Michael Letschin
Director of Product Management Solutions,
Nexenta


Object Storage
The Buzz About Flash Storage and Why Performance Testing is Critical: How to Implement SNIA Flash Storage Testing Methodologies for Real-World Environments

Peter Murray
Marketing Director,
Load DynamiX

Is RAM the Future of Enterprise Storage? Using Distributed Fault Tolerant Memory in Virtualized Data Centers

Woon Jung
Senior Software Engineer,
PernixData

Overcoming the Challenges of Storage Scale and Cost

Rob McCammon
Director of Product Management,
Cleversafe

10:40 - 10:55


Break
 

 


Big Data

Software Defined Storage

Object Storage

Performance

Distributed Storage

10:55 - 11:35

Cloud Based Storage: The Reality of Really Big Data, Workflows and Security

Pending Speaker Confirmation

Take a Technical Deep Dive Into Hyper-convergence and Learn How It Can Simplify IT and Support Various Virtual Workloads

John Kim
Director, Storage Marketing,
Mellanox Technologies

Pending Speaker Confirmation
Utilizing VDBench to Perform IDC AFA Testing

Michael Ault
Oracle FlashSystem Consulting Manager,
IBM

Next Generation Data Centers: Hyperconverged Architectures Impact On Storage

Mark OConnell
Distinguished Engineer,
EMC

11:40 - 12:20

Scaling Splunk Log Analytics without the Storage Headaches

Veda Shankar
Technical Marketing Manager,
Red Hat

Pending Speaker Confirmation
Object Storage – Key Role in Future of Big Data

Anil Vasudeva
President and Chief Analyst,
IMEX Research

Pending Speaker Confirmation Pending Speaker Confirmation

 


Sessions Conclude
 

 

Sponsors and Partners of the 2015 Data Storage Innovation Conference Include:

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Contributing Sponsors

Industry Analyst Partners

SNIA Technology Community Partners

Association Partners

Media Partners