SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
2021 SDC India Schedule
Schedule is subject to change. Sessions will be made available on-demand (via the event platform) at the listed times.
View the video previews here:
Extract from Micron presentation on storage acceleration
Extract from KIOXIA presentation on delivering faster storage to database workloads in Kubernetes
| Friday, December 4th | ||
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| 09:00 | Introduction to Virtual SDC India Udayan Singh, Chair, SNIA India |
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| 09:10 |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Jim Handy, General Director
Objective Analysis
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| 09:50 |
PREMIER PARTNER
Rohit Srivastava, Technical Director
Calsoft
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| 10:30 |
PREMIER PARTNER
Manoj Vaddineni, Director of Business Development
Viavi Solutions
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| Breakout sessions - available at the listed times | ||
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Track One |
Track Two Computational Storage AI/ML HCI Storage Performance Containers Solid State Storage Storage Security
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| 11:10 | NVMe | Computational Storage |
| TECHNOLOGY PARTNER SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit) to Accelerate NVMe Drives Niranjan R Nilugal, Product Test Architect Mindteck |
Deploying Computational Storage at Scale with Ease Scott Shadley, VP Marketing NGD Systems |
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| 11:45 | NVMe | AI/ML |
| QEMU-NVMe Protocol Simulator for Shift-Left Test Development Karthik Balan, Associate Director Gollu Appalanaidu, Software Engineer Samsung Semiconductor Research |
Natural Language to SQL Query conversion using Machine Learning techniques Shoba G, Professor RV College of Engineering |
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| 12:20 | NVMe | AI/ML |
| Zoned Namespaces: Bringing Zones to NVMe SSDs Aravind Ramesh, Principal Engineer Western Digital |
The journey to smartness: Data Protection Pradip Mukhopadhyay, Senior Engineer Srinivas Nagarajan, Technical Staff Member NetApp |
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| 12:55 | NVMe | AI/ML |
| Architecting Quality Engineering for New Generation Drives Amit Devgan, Associate Staff Engineer Shashikiran Revankar, Associate Director Samsung R&D |
AI/ML for Archival Storage in Quartz Glass Kannadasan Palani, Senior Test Manager MSys Technologies |
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| 13:30 | Cloud | AI/ML |
| Data Sovereign Collaboration Platform for Autonomous Vehicles Radha Krishna Singuru, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Akhil Gokhale, Managing Consultant Wipro Technologies |
AI/ML based Customer IO Workload Simulation Susanta Dutta, Master Technologist HPE |
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| 14:05 | Cloud | HCI |
| Predictive analytics and heterogeneous storage systems management using modernized services Ramakrishna Vadla, Architect Arunagiri Rajasekaran, Senior Staff Software Engineer IBM |
High-performance data replication in HCI environment |
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| 14:40 | Cloud | HCI |
| Storage in Open Hybrid Cloud - can storage be the same across clouds? Sahina Bose, Software Engineering Manager Red Hat |
New Age HCI - Performance Innovations Alok Kataria, Staff Engineer Hema Venkataramani, Staff Engineer Nutanix |
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| 15:15 | Cloud | Storage Performance |
| Mission Critical Databases - On-premise vs Cloud Amol Bhoite, Senior Technical Lead Xoriant Software Solutions |
Uncovering production issues – with Real World Workload Emulation Swati Chawdhary, Senior Manager Shiva Pahwa, Associate Director Samsung |
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| 15:50 | Object Storage | Containers |
| Scalable open source object storage architecture Shilpa Jagannath, Senior Software Engineer Pritha Srivastava, Senior Software Engineer Red Hat |
Distributed filesystems as container persistent storage with applied security Smita Raut, Senior Software Engineer IBM |
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| 16:25 | Object Storage | Containers |
| Object Store Performance: Benchmarking & Troubleshooting Subin Francis, Senior Performance Engineer Arth Patel, Senior Member, Technical Staff Dheer Moghe, Principal Engineer Nutanix |
Server, storage and networking device simulation at scale with containers Hemant Gaikwad, Test Architect Dell EMC |
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| 17:00 | Storage Management | Solid State Storage |
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SNIA PRESENTATION What’s New in SNIA Swordfish™ |
SmartNICs and SmartSSDs, the future of smart acceleration Scott Schweitzer, Systems Architect Xilinx |
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| 17:35 | Storage Security | Storage Security |
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Trustworthy Storage - Expectations and realities |
Ransomware - Is it the ultimate malware? |
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| 18:10 | Persistent Memory | Persistent Memory |
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SNIA PRESENTATION Persistent Memory Overview |
SNIA PRESENTATION Introduction to Persistent Memory |
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| 18:45 |
Conference sessions end. |
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| Saturday, December 5th | ||
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| 09:00 | Introduction to SNIA and SDC India J Metz, Chair, SNIA |
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| 09:10 |
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Sanil Kumar D, Head SODA India
Ashit Kumar, Maintainer SODA India
SODA Foundation
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| 09:50 |
PREMIER PARTNER
Prakash Venkat, Distinguished Engineer
DELL EMC
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| 10:30 |
PREMIER PARTNER
Roopesh Chuggani, Senior Engineer
NetApp
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| Breakout sessions - available at the listed times | ||
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Track One |
Track Two File Systems Storage Security Blockchain Solid State Storage Storage Networking |
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| 11:10 | File Systems | File Systems |
| The Future of Accessing Files remotely from Linux: SMB3.1.1 update Steven French, Principal Software Engineer Shyam Prasad, Senior Software Engineer Azure Storage, Microsoft |
TECHNOLOGY PARTNER NAS File System: Panacea for extreme performance at High Bandwidth to High IOPS Workloads Ankit Mathur, Chief Architect, NAS Storage Huawei |
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| 11:45 | File Systems | Storage Security |
| Multi node scale out NAS using NFSv4 referrals Ashish Sangwan, Staff Engineer Suhrud Patankar, Staff Engineer Nutanix |
Securing Kubernetes in Premise & Cloud: challenges and solutions Anupam Jagdish Chomal, Principal Software Security Engineer Dell EMC |
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| 12:20 | File Systems | Storage Security |
| Testing a Distributed File System Mukul Kumar Singh, Engineering Manager Cloudera |
Storage Security: Proactive Threat Detection and Safeguarding of Data for enhanced Cyber Resiliency Sandeep R Patil, STSM, Master Inventor Mandar J Vaidya, Storage Solutions Architect IBM |
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| 12:55 | Computational Storage | Storage Security |
| Deploying Computational Storage at Scale with Ease Scott Shadley, VP Marketing NGD Systems |
Data Protection of Kubernetes workloads : A Performance engineering case study Anand Reddy, Principal QA Engineer Dell EMC |
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| 13:30 | Emerging Technologies | Storage Security |
| High Speed Active Active clustering over Ethernet RDMA Bharti Soni, Senior System Staff Engineer Subhojit Roy, STSM Storage Development IBM |
Ransomware proof storage Nalini Nallamalli, Sr Principal Software Engineer Anindya Banerjee, Technical Director Veritas Technologies |
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| 14:05 | Emerging Technologies | Storage Security |
| Gen-Z emerging technology for memory intensive applications Pekon Gupta, Solutions Architect Arthur Sainio, Director, Product Marketing SMART Modular Technology |
Preventive Safety from unauthorized IoT devices Rekha MS, Senior Engineer Shilpa PV, Senior Software Engineer Dell EMC |
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| 14:40 | Emerging Technologies | Blockchain |
| Storage acceleration and near memory compute with CXL/CCIX Ravi Kiran Gummaluri, Engineering Leader Micron Technology |
Rethinking Blockchain in Storage Parmeshwr Prasad, Software Principal Engineer Rahul Vishwakarma, Software Quality Senior Engineer Dell EMC |
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| 15:15 | Emerging Technologies | Solid State Storage |
| Optimized Storage and Network layer for Next Gen Industry workloads Sumit Dighe, Sr Principal Software Engineer Prajakta Zagade, Principal Software Engineer Ajinkya Nakave, Senior Software Engineer Veritas |
SmartNICs and SmartSSDs, the future of smart acceleration Scott Schweitzer, Systems Architect Xilinx
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| 15:50 | Emerging Technologies | Solid State Storage |
| Leveraging Modern Network to Deliver Faster Storage to Database Workloads in Kubernetes Amarjit Singh, Director, DevOps Solutions KIOXIA Corporation |
MicroSD Card as adoptable storage: Measurement, Evaluation and Impact. Samsung Semiconductor Research |
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| 16:25 | Storage Management | Storage Networking |
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SNIA PRESENTATION SNIA Swordfish™ Overview and Deep Dive |
NVMe over fabric performance Eden Kim, CEO Calypso Systems Inc. & Chair, SNIA Solid State Storage Technical Working Group |
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| 17:00 | Persistent Memory | Storage Networking |
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SNIA PRESENTATION Persistent Memory Overview |
Use cases for NVMe-oF for Deep Learning Workloads and HCI Pooling Nishant Lodha, Director of Technologies Marvell |
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| 17:35 | Persistent Memory | |
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SNIA PRESENTATION Introduction to Persistent Memory |
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| 18:10 |
Conference sessions end |
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