SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
Chris Lionetti
SNIA Vice Chair, Executive Committee and SMI GB Member; Reference Architect
HPE
Chris Lionetti is a veteran of the storage industry who has been building complex systems and SANs for over 25 years. Chris has long been actively involved with the Storage Network Industry Association, SNIA. He is currently a reference architect on the HPE Nimble Storage team. Earlier in his career, he worked as an engineer for HP, Dell, Microsoft, and NetApp. Chris holds 9 patents on topics related to data centers, networking, and storage.
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Fighting Ransomware Using Intelligent Storage
Ransomware is an acknowledged threat, and protecting your data must be a security-in-depth exercise. We discusses how Intelligent Storage can detect and recover from an attack while maintaining administrative isolation from compromised servers. While this method is only a single layer of a defence-in-depth infrastructure, it can be implemented invisibly on existing workloads and storage which can gather the proper sets of metrics.
Building a SNIA Swordfish™ Implementation: A Retrospective
HPE will provide an overview of their experience developing an initial Swordfish implementation. This session will provide an overview of lessons learned through the initial proof-of-concept through development phases and will include recommendations to other implementers of areas that may require additional focus.
Accelerate your SNIA Swordfish™ Implementation Through Open-source Tools, the SMI Lab, and the Swordfish CTP Program
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