2014 Data Storage Innovation Conference Agenda

2014 Data Storage Innovation Conference Agenda

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Optional Pre-Conference Program: Monday, April 21, 2014
9:30 - 4:30	Pre-conference Full-day Storage Certification Training Session Separate registration required

Tuesday, April 22, 2014
7:30 - 8:30	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Cloud Storage	Storage Architecture	Solid State Storage	Cover Your Assets (CYA)	Storage Technologies
8:30 - 9:15	Private Cloud Storage for Different Enterprise Compute Clouds John Dickinson Director of Technology, SwiftStack	Storing 85 Petabytes of Cloud Data without Going Broke Gleb Budman CEO, Backblaze	SNIA Tutorial: Storage in the DIMM Socket Adrian Proctor VP Marketing, Viking Technology	Virtualization Drives New Approaches to Backup Nikolay Yamakawa Analyst, 451 Research	Emerging Storage and Memory Technologies Thomas Coughlin President, Coughlin Associates Edward Grochowski Computer Storage Consultant
9:25 - 10:10	The Cloud Hybrid “Homerun” – Life Beyond The Hype Greg Schulz Senior Advisory Analyst, StorageIO	Extending the Benefits of HDD: Breaking Down Walls All Storage Vendors Face Keith Hageman Director of Technical Marketing, X-IO Technologies	Storage Speed and Human Behavior Eric Herzog CMO, Violin Memory	SNIA Tutorial: Protecting Data in the "Big Data" World Thomas Rivera Sr. Technical Associate, Hitachi Data Systems	Storage Systems Can Now Get ENERGY STAR Labels and Why You Should Care Dennis Martin President, Demartek
10:10 - 10:25	Break
10:25 - 11:10	SNIA Tutorial: Delivering a Cloud Architecture Alex McDonald CTO Office, NetApp	Project Fermi - A Highly Available NAS Gateway Built from Open Source Software Dan Pollack Senior Operations Architect, Aol Inc.	SSD Synthetic Enterprise Application Workloads Eden Kim CEO, Calypso Testers	New Challenges - New Solutions with LTO-6 Technology and LTFS Shawn Brune Sc.D., Business Line Manager, Data Protection and Retention, IBM, the LTO Program	The Internet of Things is a Huge Opportunity for Object Storage Tom Leyden PMM WOS, DataDirect Networks
11:20 - 12:05	Leveraging the Cloud for Scalable and Simplified Data Storage Connor Fee Director of Marketing, Nasuni	A New Strategy for Data Management in a Time of Hyper Change David Langley Director of System Engineering, CommVault	SNIA Tutorial: Benefits of Flash in Enterprise Storage David Dale Director Industry Standards, NetApp	SNIA Tutorial: Data Protection in Transition to the Cloud David Chapa Chief Technology Evangelist, EVault	Building Open Source Storage Products with Ceph Neil Levine VP Product, Inktank
12:05 - 2:00	Lunch in the Expo Area
	Cloud Storage	Storage Architecture	Solid State Storage	Cover Your Assets (CYA)	Storage Technologies
2:00 - 2:45	SNIA Tutorial: Reaching to the Cloud Subo Guha VP of Product Management and Marketing, Unitrends	SNIA Tutorial: Rightsizing Tiered Storage Systems Octavian Paul Rotaru IT Project Manager and SAN/Storage/Backup Line Leader, Amdocs	The New Flash Architecture ... Wait ... There's a New One Already? Marco Coulter Vice President, 451 Research	Reducing Backup Windows and Increasing Performance When Data Reaches the Terabyte Range Mark McKinnon Information Technology Architect, Grand River Conservation Authority	The Curious Case of Database Deduplication Gurmeet Goindi Principal Product Manager, Oracle Corporation
2:55 - 3:40	Choosing a File Sync and Share Solution Darryl Pace Storage Architect, Optimal Computer Solutions, Inc.	The Root Cause of Unstructured Data Problem Is Not What You Think Bruce Thompson CEO, Action Information Systems	Paving the Way to the Non-Volatile Memory Frontier Doug Voigt Distinguished Technologist, HP	Vendor Neutral Archive, the How and Why Gary Woodruff Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, Sutter Health	SNIA Tutorial: Massively Scalable File Storage Philippe Nicolas Director of Product Strategy, Scality
3:40 - 3:55	Break
3:55 - 4:40	SNIA Tutorial: Combining SNIA Cloud, Tape and Container Format Technologies for Long Term Retention Sam Fineberg Distinguished Technologist, HP Simona Rabinovici-Cohen Researcher IBM	SNIA Tutorial: What is Old is New Again: Storage Tiering Gideon Senderov Director, Advanced Storage Products, NEC	Utilizing Ultra-Low Latency within Enterprise Architectures Page Tagizad Senior Product Marketing Manager, SanDisk	True Data Disaster Recovery Matthew Kinderwater Director of IT Services, iCube Development (Calgary) Ltd.	SNIA Tutorial: SMB Remote File Protocol (Including SMB 3.0) John Reed Product Manager, NetApp
4:50 - 5:35	Database-as-a-Service vs. Do-It-Yourself MySQL in the Cloud Cashton Coleman CEO, ClearDB	Who Says Data Center Storage Has to Be Inefficient? Larry Chisvin VP, Strategic Initiatives, PLX Technology	Changing the Economics of Flash Storage Delivering Flash at the Price of Disk Mike Davis Director of Marketing, File Storage Solutions, Dell	Panel: Best Practices in the Management of Unstructured Data Moderator: Molly Rector CMO, DataDirect Networks Panelists: David Cerf Executive Vice President of Business and Corporate Development, Crossroads Systems Mark Fleischhauer Tape Solutions Manager, HP Philippe Nicolas Director of Product Strategy, Scality	SNIA Tutorial: Practical Steps to Implementing pNFS and NFSv4.1 Alex McDonald Industry Evangelist, NetApp
5:45 - 6:45	Welcome Reception in the Expo Area

Wednesday, April 23, 2014
7:30 - 8:45	Registration Open - Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45 - 9:00	General Sessions Welcome Remarks David Dale, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors
9:00 - 9:45	Enabling Data Infrastructure Return on Innovation – The Other ROI Greg Schulz, Founder of StorageIO and Analyst, Consultant, Educator, and Author
9:45-10:25	Architecting with Flash for Web-Scale Enterprise Storage Andy Warfield, CTO / Co-Founder, Coho Data, and CS Professor, University of British Columbia
10:25-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Software Defined Storage @ Microsoft Siddhartha Roy, Group Program Manager, File Server and Clustering, Cloud and Enterprise, Microsoft Corporation
11:20-12:00	Simplify Branch Office Recovery and Disaster Avoidance with Riverbed Rob Whiteley, VP, Product Marketing, Riverbed
12:00-1:30	Lunch in the Expo Area
	Breakout Sessions
	Cloud Storage	Software Defined Storage	Storage Plumbing	Analytics and Big Data	Storage Technologies
1:30 - 2:15	Recover 2 Cloud - A Common Sense Approach to Disaster Recovery Raj Krishnamurthy Senior Product Manager, SunGard Availability Services	Bring back the flexibility of the cloud with SDS and Open Source Michael Letschin Sr. Product Manager, Nexenta	Next Generation Storage Networking for Next Generation Data Centers Dennis Martin President, Demartek	Can Enterprise Storage Fix Hadoop John Webster Senior Partner, Evaluator Group	Seagate Kinetic Open Storage Platform Ali Fenn Senior Director of Advanced Storage, Seagate James Hughes Principal Technologist, Seagate
2:25 - 3:10	Key Criterias when Building ExaScale Data Center Philippe Nicolas Director of Product Strategy, Scality	Software-Defined Storage in Windows Server 2012 R2 and System Center 2012 R2 SW Worth Senior Standards PM, Microsoft Corporation	Gen 6 Fibre Channel is Coming: What You Need to Know Craig Carlson Technologist, Office of the CTO, QLogic Corporation	SNIA Tutorial: Introduction to Analytics & Big Data - Hadoop Thomas Rivera Sr. Technical Associate, Hitachi Data Systems	Performance
2:25 - 3:10					Benchmarking the New Storage Technologies Bob Hansen Managing Director, Kitaro Consulting
3:10 - 3:25	Break
	Cloud Storage	Software Defined Storage	Storage Plumbing	Analytics and Big Data	Hot Topics
3:25 - 4:10	S3 API Deep Storage Extensions for Hadoop Stacy Schwarz-Gardner Strategic Technical Architect, Spectra Logic	Deploying Software Defined Storage for the Enterprise with Ceph Paul Von Stamwitz Senior Storage Architect, Fujitsu	SNIA Tutorial: Forming Storage Grids Using iSCSI Felix Xavier Founder and CTO, CloudByte	Transforming Cloud Infrastructure to Support Big Data Storage and Workflows Jay Migliaccio Director of Cloud Solutions, Aspera	How To Get The Most Out of Flash Deployments Eric Burgener Research Director, Storage, IDC
4:20 - 5:05	OpenStack Cloud Storage Sam Fineberg Distinguished Technologist, HP	Software Defined Storage - Storage Management Analytics Ramani Routray STSM and Manager, IBM Master Inventor, IBM Almaden Research	SNIA Tutorial: Use Cases for iSCSI and FCoE: Where Each Makes Sense Jeff Asher Principal Architect, NetApp	Applied Storage Technologies for Performance Optimized Big Analytics Hubbert Smith Office of CTO, Alliance Manager, LSI	The Future Technology for NAND Flash Sylvain Dubois Senior Director, Strategic Marketing & Business Development, Crossbar, Inc.
5:15 - 7:15	Networking Reception in the Expo Area
	Birds of a Feather Sessions If you or your company are interested in hosting a BoF session, contact Arnold Jones at arnold.jones@snia.org

Thursday, April 24, 2014
7:30 - 8:45	Registration Open - Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45 - 9:00	General Sessions Welcome Remarks Molly Rector, Vice-Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors
9:00 - 9:45	Disrupting the Storage Industry? - How Small Startups Can Change the Traditional, Stuffy Storage Landscape Adrian Cockcroft, Technology Fellow, Battery Ventures
9:45-10:25	The Role of High Performance Storage in Accelerating Applications Andy Walls, CTO and Chief Architect for Flash Systems, IBM
10:25-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Customer Case Study: Multi-Terabyte Database Backup and Restores Over High Speed Marty Stogsdill, Architect, Discover Financial Services
11:20-12:00	Scale–out Object Store for PB/hr Backups and Long Term Digital Archive Gideon Senderov, Director, Advanced Storage Products, NEC
12:00-1:00	Lunch
	Breakout Sessions
	Security	Software Defined Storage	Storage Management and Performance	Analytics and Big Data	Virtualization
1:10 - 1:55	Interoperable Key Management for Storage Subhash Sankuratripati Technical Director, NetApp and Co-Chair, KMIP TC, OASIS	The Meaning and Value of Software Defined Storage Doug Voigt Distinguished Technologist, HP and SNIA Technical Council	Automated Methodology for Storage Consolidation & Optimization for Large Infrastructures Alok Jain Founder and CEO, Interscape Technologies Inc. Ram Ayyakad COO and Biz Dev, Interscape Technologies Inc.	Hadoop-based Open Source eDiscovery Sujee Maniyam Co-Founder and Principal, Elephant Scale	SNIA Tutorial: What’s Your Shape? 5 Steps to Understanding Your Virtual Workload Irfan Ahmad CTO and Co-Founder, CloudPhysics
2:05 - 2:50	SNIA Tutorial: Practical Secure Storage: A Vendor Agnostic Overview Walt Hubis Storage Standards Architect, Hubis Technical Associates	Thinking Outside the Box with Software Yoram Novick Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Maxta, Inc.	SMI-S and Storage in Your Data Center Chris Lionetti Reference Architect, NetApp	Storage Plumbing	Virtualizing Storage to Accelerate Performance of Tier-1 Apps Augie Gonzalez Director of Product Marketing, DataCore Dustin Fennel Vice President and CIO, Mission Community Hospital
2:05 - 2:50				SNIA Tutorial: SAS: The Fabric for Storage Solutions Marty Czekalski President, SCSI Trade Association Greg McSorley Vice President, STA
2:50 - 3:05	Break
	Security	Software Defined Storage	Storage Management and Performance	Professional Development	Virtualization
3:05 - 3:50	SNIA Tutorial: Best Practices for Cloud Security and Privacy Eric Hibbard Senior Director, Data Networking Technology, Hitachi Data Systems	Building Multi-Purpose Storage Infrastructure Using a Software-Defined System Paul Evans Principal Architect, Daystrom Technology Group	Turning a High-Wire Juggling Act into a Walk in the Park Lavan Jeeva IT Operations Manager, KIPP Foundation	SNIA Tutorial: Consumerization of IT - What is Right for Your Organization? Marty Foltyn President, BitSprings Systems	How to Achieve Agility and Redundancy in the Hybrid Cloud Bryan Bond Senior System Admin, eMeter, A Siemens Business Pat O'Day CTO, Bluelock
4:00 - 4:45	SNIA Tutorial: Implementing Stored-Data Encryption Michael Willett Storage Security Strategist, Samsung	SNIA Tutorial: Software Defined Storage – the New Storage Platform Anil Vasudeva President & Chief Analyst, IMEX Research	SNIA Tutorial: Performance and Innovation of Storage Advances through SCSI Express Marty Czekalski President, SCSI Trade Association Greg McSorley Vice President, STA	SNIA Tutorial: Reaction Management - Trend for All Technology Professionals David Deming Chief Technologist, Solution Technology	Flash Hypervisor: The Savior to Storage I/O Bottlenecks? Bala Narasimhan Director of Products, PernixData
4:45	Sessions Conclude