SNIA Announces Keynote Speakers for 2009 Storage Developers Conference

New Small Office/ Home Office and Consumer Focused Plugfest Added to Help Test and Develop Interoperable Products

San Francisco, Calif. (August 26, 2009) — The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), today released the list of keynote presenters as well as a new consumer, small and home office storage plugfest for the upcoming 2009 Storage Developer Conference (SDC 2009). Taking place September 14–17, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Santa Clara, CA, the Conference will attract hundreds of storage developers to share best practices and learn about leading storage development matters such as solid state storage, cloud storage, file system performance, storage management, eXtensible Access Method/data management, file security, Windows 7, green storage, CIFS/SMB/SMB 2 and other emerging technologies.

There will be several featured presenters at the conference including:

• Dhruba Borthakur, Project Lead, Apache Hadoop Distributed File System, Facebook
• Michael Cornwell, Lead Technologist, Flash Memory, Sun Microsystems
• Greg Donnells, VP Check Infrastructure, CERTEGY, Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.
• Garth Gibson, Professor, Carnegie Mellon; Founder and CTO, Panasas
• Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Director and Co–Founder, Internet Archive
• Theodore Ts’o, CTO, Linux Foundation

SOHO and Consumer Plugfest

The SNIA has added a new activity to the SDC 2009 CIFS/SMB/SMB2 plugfest to provide an open forum for vendors to test, identify, and fix bugs in a collaborative setting with the goal of providing a forum in which companies can develop interoperable products focused on the Small Office/Home Office and consumer marketplace.

"Last year, over 45 million of these devices were sold in the global marketplace and the demand from consumer and small/home office users continues to increase," said, SW Worth, member, SNIA Board of Directors. "As more consumers or small/home-office users begin to evaluate their need for storage, the ability for these devices to be interoperable and provide simplicity will be essential. This plugfest provides a valuable and very powerful forum for vendors to test their products alongside other offerings."

In addition to the plugfest, SDC will also include several sessions that focus on topics unique to the SOHO and consumer marketplace such as a presentation covering how vendors can prepare their company and products to meet the EPA ENERGY STAR® Program requirements.

Please visit /events/storage-developer2009 for more information.

About the SNIA

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is a not–for–profit global organization, made up of some 400 member companies spanning virtually the entire storage industry. SNIA’s mission is to lead the storage industry worldwide in developing and promoting standards, technologies, and educational services to empower organizations in the management of information. To this end, the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For additional information, visit the SNIA web site at www.snia.org.