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SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA

Sessions 2022

Conference Sessions
Storage Resource Management
Redfish Ecosystem for Storage
Jeff Hilland
President / SPDM WG Co-Chair; Distinguished Technologist,
Storage Performance / Workloads
The Future of the Storage World is Autonomous
Cloud Storage
Managing Cloud infrastructure by using Terraform HCL
Kannadasan Palani
Senior Staff Engineer
Storage Performance / Workloads
Software-Defined Performance Engineering
Storage Resource Management
We addressed the elephant in the room with OpenStack Sahara
Ajitha Robert
Cloud Stack Engineer
Blockchain
Applying Blockchain for Digital Identity Management
Abirami Ravichandran
Senior DevOps Engineer
Data Protection Technologies
DOTS - A Simple, Visual, Method for Preserving Digital Infomation
Robert Hummel
President
Solid State Storage Solutions
From DRAM to SSDs, Challenges with Caching at FB Scale
Sathya Gunasekar
Software Engineer
SMB
SMB3 Landscape and Directions
Wen Xin
Software Engineer
SMB
The New Samba VFS
Ralph Böhme
Software Engineer,
NVM Express
Testing NVMe SSDs against the DatacenterSSD Specification
David Woolf
Senior Exec Technology Office
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Panel Discussion: DNA Data Storage - Preserving Our Digital Legacy
David Landsman
Distinguished Engineer,
Solid State Storage Solutions
Challenges & Opportunities with Hyper-Scale Boot Drives
Karthik Shivaram
Storage Engineer
Hard Drives / HDD
Drive Health Monitor (DHM) for Drives On-Prem (or core data center) and Cloud
Mahmoud Jibbe
Technical Director
Data Protection Technologies
A Quintuple Parity Error Correcting Code - A Game Changer in Data Protection
Marek Rychlik
CEO of Xoralgo Inc., Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona, co-inventor of a patented RAID and ECC technology
Storage Resource Management
Expanding Development of your Swordfish Implementations Using Open Source Tools
Don Deel
Storage Management Architect
Storage Resource Management
Managing Open Fabrics with a Standards-based Interface: Bringing GenZ, Redfish, and Swordfish Together
Erich Hanke
Sr. Principal Engineer, Storage and Memory Products
NVMe-oF
Intel SmartNIC/IPU based NVMe/TCP Initiator Offload
Ziye Yang
Staff Software Engineer
Storage Resource Management
Completing the Picture for NVMe and NVMe-oF Management: Guidelines for Implementations
Storage Resource Management
Managing Ethernet-Attached Drives using Swordfish
Mark Carlson
Principal Engineer, Industry Standards
Emerging Interfaces
SNIA SDXI Roundtable: Towards Standardizing a Memory to Memory Data Movement and Acceleration Interface
Storage Resource Management
Accelerating NVMe / NVMe-oF RF/SF Development Using DEM
Rajalaxmi Angadi
Senior Engineer / Lead
Storage Resource Management
Simplifying Client Interactions with SMI-S using PyWBEM
Mike Walker
Storage Management Architect
SMB
To the Cloud and Beyond, Accessing Files Remotely from Linux: Update on SMB3.1.1 Client Progress
Data Protection Technologies
“Streaming Replication” of Object Storage System Data to achieve Disaster Recovery.
Gowtham Alluri
Staff Software Engineer
Security and Privacy
Emerging Storage Security Landscape
Eric Hibbard
Director, Product Planning – Storage Networking & Security
Security and Privacy
Quantum Safe Cryptography for Long Term Security
Basil Hess
Research Engineer
Storage Architecture
How to Connect a SAS System
Alex Haser
Senior Industry Standards Engineer
Hard Drives / HDD
Facts, figures and insights from 250,000 hard drives
Andrew Klein
Staff Software Engineer
Data Protection Technologies
Hardening OpenZFS to Further Mitigate Ransomware
Michael Dexter
CTO
Hard Drives / HDD
Be On Time: Command Duration Limits Feature Support in Linux
Damien Le Moal
Distinguished Engineer,
DNA Data Storage
DNA storage with ADS Codex: the Adaptive Codec for Organic Molecular Archives
Latchesar Ionkov
Scientist
Computational Storage
NVMe Computational Storage Update
Kim Malone
Storage Software Architect
DNA Data Storage
Scalable and Dynamic File Operations for DNA-based Data Storage
James Tuck
Professor
Cloud Storage
Ozone - Architecture and Performance at billions’ scale
Lokesh Jain
Scientist
Emerging Interfaces
InfiniBand/RoCE RDMA Specification Update
Chet Douglas
Principal Software Engineer,
Cloud Storage
Apache Ozone - Balancing and Deleting Data At Scale
Lokesh Jain
Scientist
DNA Data Storage
Storing Data over Millennia. Long term Room Temperature Storage of DNA.
Marthe Colotte
Platform Operations Manager
Data Protection Technologies
Fighting Ransomware Using Intelligent Storage
Chris Lionetti
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
DNA Data Storage
From DNA Synthesis on Chips to DNA Data Storage
Andres Fernandez
Senior Director, Silicon Engineering
Security and Privacy
Designing with Privacy in Mind
David Sietz
Systems / Solution Architect
Security and Privacy
Privacy's Increasing Role in Technology
Cathleen Scerbo
VP, Chief Information Officer
SMB
Samba Multi-Channel/io_uring Status Update
Stefan Metzmacher
Software Architect,
Computational Storage
Accelerating File Systems and Data Services with Computational Storage
Brad Settlemyer
Storage Researcher
Security and Privacy
Sanitization – Forensic-proofing Your Data Deletion
Eric Hibbard
Director, Product Planning – Storage Networking & Security
Storage Architecture
From NASD to DeltaFS: CMU and Los Alamos's Efforts in Building Large-Scale Filesystem Metadata
Emerging Interfaces
Rethinking Software Defined Memory (SDM) for large-scale applications with faster interconnects and memory technologies
Anjaneya ‘Reddy’ Chagam
Principal Engineer and Chief SDS Architect, Intel’s Data Center Group / Board Member at SODA Foundation
Computational Storage
Stop Wasting 80% of Your Infrastructure Investment!
Tony Afshary
Sr. Director, Product Line Management
NVMe-oF
Scalable Storage Performance for High Density Applications
Jayamohan Kallickal
Distinguished Engineer
Container Storage
Data Protection for stateful application: OpenSource way!!
Ashit Kumar
Lead Architect
Composable Infrastructure
NextGen Connected Cloud Datacenter with programmable and flexible infrastructure
Bikash Roy Choudhury
Technical Director
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Power-Efficient Data Processing with Software-Defined Computational Storage
Yang Seok Ki
Vice President
Security and Privacy
Ransomware!!! – an Analysis of Practical Steps for Mitigation and Recovery
Thomas Rivera
Director of Technology
Container Storage
Data Management going beyond storage boxes.
Sanil Kumar D
Senior Software Engineer
DNA Data Storage
DNA Sequencing at Scale
Craig Ciesla
VP Advanced Engineering
Hard Drives / HDD
Introduction to HDD Field Accessible Reliability Metrics to Machine Learning Applications
Paul Burnett
Principal Engineer
Computational Storage
Computational Storage Moving Forward with an Architecture and API
Bill Martin
SNIA Technical Council
Storage Resource Management
Managing Exported NVMe-oF Resources and Fabrics in Swordfish and Redfish
Phil Cayton
Senior Staff Engineer
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Quantum Technology and Storage: Where Do They Meet?
Doug Finke
Managing Editor
Computational Storage
SkyhookDM: An Arrow-Native Storage System
Jayjeet Chakraborty
IRIS-HEP Fellow
Composable Infrastructure
High Performance NVMe Virtualization with SPDK and vfio-user
Benjamin Walker
Technical Lead
Storage Performance / Workloads
A Primer on GPUDirect Storage
Kushal Datta
Senior Product Manager
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Beyond Zoned Named Spaces – ZNSNLOG Bridging the Semantic Gap
Chun Liu
Chief Architect
Storage Performance / Workloads
Distributed WorkLoad Generator for Load Testing Using Emerging Technologies
Vishnu Murty Karrotu
Automation Technologist
Emerging Interfaces
Compute Express Link 2.0: A High-Performance Interconnect for Memory Pooling
Andy Rudoff
Persistent Memory SW Architect
Emerging Interfaces
Enabling Heterogeneous Memory in Python
Daniel Waddington
Principal Research Staff Member
Computational Storage
Scientific Data Powered by User-Defined Functions
Lucas Villa Real
Research Software Engineer
Computational Storage
The Building Blocks to Design a Computational Storage Device
Jerome Gaysse
Senior Technology and Market Analyst
Storage Performance / Workloads
Unearthing the Impact of Sanitize on Performance and Latency in embedded storage
Shankar Athanikar
Staff Engineer
NVMe-oF
Securing an NVMe-oF IP Fabric
Claudio DeSanti
VP of Strategy
NVMe-oF
Automating the Discovery of NVMe-oF Subsystems over an IP Network
Erik Smith
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
NVMe-oF
NVMe/TCP in the enterprise
Mukesh Gupta
Technical Staff
Cloud Storage
Compacting Smaller Objects in Cloud for Higher Yield
Tejas Chopra
Senior Software Engineer
Storage Architecture
Netflix Drive for Media Assets
Vikram Krishnamurthy
Senior Software Engineer
Storage Networking
SmartNICs, The Architecture Battle Between Von Neumann and Programmable Logic
Scott Schweitzer
Sr. Mgr Product Planning - SmartNICs
Cloud Storage
Compression, Deduplication & Encryption conundrums for Cloud Storage
Tejas Chopra
Senior Software Engineer
NVM Express
Enabling Asynchronous I/O Passthru in NVMe-Native Applications
Javier Gonzalez
Principal Software Engineer
Container Storage
Istio Service Mesh: A Primer
Binitha MT
Software Senior Engineer
NVM Express
QEMU NVMe Emulation: What's New
Klaus Jensen
Staff Software Engineer
Storage Architecture
A Tiering-Based Global Deduplication for a Distributed Storage System
Sung Kyu Park
Staff Engineer
Storage Performance / Workloads
Uncovering Production Issues - with Real World Workload Emulation
Storage Networking
Introducing Fabric Notifications, from Awareness to Action
Howard Johnson
Technology Architect
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Chair
NVM Express
Towards Copy-Offload in Linux NVMe
Kanchan Joshi
Principal Software Engineer,
Storage Performance / Workloads
Next Generation Cloud Data Centers
Jai Menon
Chief Scientist
Computational Storage
Computational Storage Directions at Fungible
Jai Menon
Chief Scientist
Storage Architecture
Fine Grain Encryption Control for Enterprise Applications
Festus Hategekimana
Senior FW Engineer
Storage Architecture
TCG Storage Workgroup Status Update
Chandra Nelogal
DMTS (Distinguished Member of Technical Staff)
Computational Storage
Computational Storage Deployment with Kubernetes and Containerized Applicationed
Scott Shadley
Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist,
Computational Storage
Computational Storage Update from the Working Group
Scott Shadley
Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist,
Composable Infrastructure
Disaggregated Data Centers: Challenges and Opportunities
Jason Vanvalkenburgh
Technical Product Management
Storage Resource Management
Open Industry Storage Management with SNIA Swordfish™
Richelle Ahlvers
SM Chair, SNIA Vice Chair, and Swordfish TWG Chair; Director of Ecosystem Enabling and Technology Initiatives
Storage Resource Management
What’s New in SNIA Swordfish™ in 2021
Richelle Ahlvers
SM Chair, SNIA Vice Chair, and Swordfish TWG Chair; Director of Ecosystem Enabling and Technology Initiatives
Storage Resource Management
Drive Adoption of Your Products with the Swordfish Conformance Test Program
Richelle Ahlvers
SM Chair, SNIA Vice Chair, and Swordfish TWG Chair; Director of Ecosystem Enabling and Technology Initiatives
Storage Networking
Exploiting RDMA to create a geographically dispersed storage network over the WAN with real-time access to data
Stephen Wallo
CTO
Storage Performance / Workloads
SPDK Schedulers – Saving CPU cores in a polled mode storage application
Jim Harris
Principal Software Engineer
Computational Storage
Computational Storage APIs
Hard Drives / HDD
BFQ Linux IO Scheduler Optimizations for Multi-Actuator SATA Hard Drives
Tim Walker
Principal Engineer
Container Storage
CSI Driver Design: Bringing a Parallel File System to Containerized Workloads
Eric Weber
Software Engineer
Storage Architecture
On asymmetrical storage implementations
Josh Salomon
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Data Protection Technologies
LTO Technology and Two-dimensional Erasure-coded Long-term archival storage with RAIL Architecture
Turguy Goker
Director of Advanced Development LTO, Quantum
Storage Performance / Workloads
FinTech data pipelines and storage I/O related benchmarks in public cloud
Shailesh Manjrekar
Head of AI
NVM Express
Can SPDK Deliver High Performance NVMe on Windows?
Nick Connolly
Chief Scientist
NVM Express
NVMe 2.0 Specifications: The Next Generation of NVMe Technology
Storage Architecture
Emerging Computer Architectures Powered by Emerging Memories
Thomas Coughlin
President
Emerging Interfaces
PCIe® 6.0: A High-Performance Interconnect for Storage Networking Challenges
Mohiuddin Mazumder
Principal Engineer, Data Center Group
Container Storage
Name Based Addressing for Kubernetes Storage
Jacob Cherian
Chief Product Officer
Cloud Storage
Transparent Encryption and Dual End Point Access Controls to Secure AWS S3 buckets
Sridharan "Sri" Sudarsan
Director, Ciphertrust Transparent Encryption Engineering
NVMe-oF
NVMe-oF: Protocols & Transports Deep Dive
Joseph White
Fellow
NVM Express
Boosting the Performance and QoS of MySQL with ZNS SSDs
Aravind Ramesh
Principal Engineer
NVMe-oF
Challenges and Effects of EDSFF-based NVMe-oF Storage Solution
Duckho Bae
Principal Engineer
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Introduction to Virtual SDC
Michael Oros
Executive Director
Data Protection Technologies
Implementing WORM for backup protection. A story about integrating disk storage with backup application.
Kornel Jakubczyk
Tech Lead
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Innovations in Load-Store I/O Causing Profound Changes in Memory, Storage, and Compute Landscape
Dr. Debendra Das Sharma
Intel Fellow
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Maximizing Flash Value with the Software-Enabled Flash™ SDK
Eric Ries
SVP Memory and Storage Strategy Division
Blockchain
Analysis of Distributed Storage on Blockchain
Tejas Chopra
Senior Software Engineer
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Amazon Aurora Storage – Purpose Built Storage for Databases
Murali Brahmadesam
Director of Engineering, Aurora Databases
Container Storage
Containerized Machine Learning Models using NVME
Ramya Krishnamurthy
Senior QA Architect [Test Expert]
DNA Data Storage
DNA Data Storage and Near-Molecule Processing for the Yottabyte Era
Karin Strauss
Senior Principal Research Manager
Storage Architecture
Unify Data and Storage Management with SODA ODF
Steven Tan
VP & CTO Cloud Solution, Storage at Futurewei / Board Chairman at SODA Foundation
Storage Resource Management
Building a SNIA Swordfish™ Implementation: A Retrospective
Chris Lionetti
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
Cloud Storage
FlexAlloc a Lightweight Building Block for User Space Data Management
Jesper Devantier
Staff Software Engineer
Solid State Storage Solutions
SPDK Implementation on a Manycore / Many Node System
Jean-François Marie
Chief Solution Architect
Composable Infrastructure
Future of Storage Platform Architecture
Mohan Kumar
Intel Fellow
Computational Storage
Computational Storage Architecture Simplification and Evolution
Jason Molgaard
Principal Storage Solutions Architect,
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Welcome to SDC 2021 - Day 2
J Metz
Chair of SNIA’s Board of Directors; Technical Director for Systems Design,
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
The Perspective of Today’s Storage Architectures, Viewed Through a Long Lens
Randy Kreiser
Storage Specialist/FAE
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Unlocking the Potential of NVMe-oF and Software Defined Storage Thanks to Programmable DPUs
Sebastien Le Duc
Software Engineering Director
Hard Drives / HDD
Unleashing the Performance of Multi-Actuator Drives
Arie van der Hoeven
Principal Product Manager
Birds-of-a-Feather
NVMe
Mark Carlson
Principal Engineer, Industry Standards
Birds-of-a-Feather
Data Processing Units (DPUs)
Mark Carlson
Principal Engineer, Industry Standards
Birds-of-a-Feather
Future Innovations in Software Defined Flash Storage
Earle Philhower
MSSD Technical Marketing
Birds-of-a-Feather
CXL and Persistent Memory
Arthur Sainio
Co-Chair
Birds-of-a-Feather
Security Landscape
Eric Hibbard
Director, Product Planning – Storage Networking & Security
Birds-of-a-Feather
"No-compromise” NVMe/TCP deployment using server storage I/O offload
Greg Schulz
Independent Industry Analyst & Author
Birds-of-a-Feather
SDXI (Smart Data Accelerator Interface) discussion with SDXI TWG members
Birds-of-a-Feather
Ethernet SSD/Ethernet BoF : A new storage architecture to push storage performance
Hrishikesh Sathawane
Director of Product Planning
Birds-of-a-Feather
Storage Device-Level Power Efficiency Measurement Specification
Wayne Adams
SNIA Chairman Emeritus,
Birds-of-a-Feather
Computational Storage Advances
Scott Shadley
Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist,
Birds-of-a-Feather
What's New in SFF? Another Conversation with Very Opinionated Experts
John Geldman
SSD IO Standards
Computational Storage
Computational Storage: How Do NVMe CS and SNIA CS Work Together?
William Martin
SSD IO Standards
Birds-of-a-Feather
Interoperability in Blockchain and why it is important to the Storage Industry
Olga Buchonina
SNIA Blockchain Storage TWG Co-Chair; CEO and Founder, ActionSpot; Co-founder
Cloud Storage
Behind the Scenes for Azure Block Storage Unique Capabilities
Yuemin Lu
Principal Product Manager/Architect
Storage Resource Management
Disk-Adaptive Redundancy: Tailoring Data Redundancy to Disk-Reliability Heterogeneity in Cluster Storage Systems
Saurabh Kadekodi
Research Scientist
DPUs
Next-Generation Storage will be built with DPUs instead of CPUs
Jai Menon
Chief Scientist
Computational Storage
Kinetic Campaign: Speeding Up Scientific Data Analytics with Computational Storage Drives and Multi-Level Erasure Coding
Scientist
Storage Resource Management
Accelerate your SNIA Swordfish™ Implementation Through Open-source Tools, the SMI Lab, and the Swordfish CTP Program
Chris Lionetti
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
Emerging Technologies
Universal Chiplet Express: Accelerating the future of semiconductor innovations in an open source environment
Debendra Das Sharma
Intel Senior Fellow, Chief Architect of I/O Technology and Standards
DPUs
Hardware Accelerated ZFS using Computational Storage
Scientist,
Persistent Memory
Addressing Capacity and Cost Challenges for Oracle Workloads using VMware Software Memory Tiering
Sudhir Balasubramanian
Senior Staff Solution Architect & Global Oracle Lead - VMware
Storage Networking
Fabric Notifications - An Update from Awareness to Action
Howard Johnson
Technology Architect
--
Chair
NVM Express
NVM Express State of the Union – 2022 NVMe Annual Update
Nick Adams
Associate Director
Persistent Memory
Persistent Scripting
Terence Kelly
Computational Storage
Making Real File Systems Faster with Applied Computational Storage
Dominic Manno
Cloud Stack Engineer
Emerging Technologies
PCIe® 6.0 Specification and Beyond: Enabling Storage and Machine Learning Applications
CXL
Introducing CXL 3.0: Expanded Capabilities for Increased Scale and Optimized Resource Utilization
Ishwar Agarwal
CXL Consortium Technical Task Force Co-Chair and Principal Hardware Engineer, Microsoft
Storage Architecture
Debugging of Flash Issues Observed in Hyperscale Environment at Scale
Vineet Parekh
Hardware Systems Engineer
SMB
SMB3 Landscape and Directions
Genghis Karimov
Software Engineer
DNA Data Storage
The DNA Data Storage Rosetta Stone Initiative
Joel Christner
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
Storage Resource Management
Redfish Ecosystem for Storage
Jeff Hilland
President / SPDM WG Co-Chair; Distinguished Technologist,
Data Security
Key per IO - Fine Grain Encryption for Storage
Frederick Knight
Principal Standards Technologist
DPUs
Accelerating FaaS/container Image Construction via IPU
Yadong Li
Principal Engineer
SMB
Performance Improvements in Samba's Pathname Handling
Volker Lendecke
Developer
--
Developer
Keynote Session
The Looming Need for Molecular Storage
Aaron Ogus
Distinguished Engineer
DNA Data Storage
DNA Data Storage Alliance: Building a DNA Data Storage Ecosystem
David Landsman
Distinguished Engineer,
DNA Data Storage
DNAssim: a Full System Simulator for DNA Storage
DNA Data Storage
DNA data storage: Coding and decoding, an experience from a Brazilian research center
João Lucas Maehara Said dos Reis
Researcher
DNA Data Storage
DNA Data Storage: a Decade of Coding and Decoding, How Far Have we Got?
João Gervásio
Researcher
DNA Data Storage
Nucleic Acid Memory: Super Resolution Microscopy Enhances Novel Approach to DNA data storage
Luca Piantanida
Research scholar
Storage Resource Management
Using DMTF Redfish and SNIA Swordfish in the Wild
Derek Chan
Senior Software Engineer
Storage Networking
Scaling NVMe over IP Fabric Security
Claudio DeSanti
VP of Strategy
Storage Resource Management
Open Industry Storage Management with SNIA Swordfish™
Chris Lionetti
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
Computational Storage
RETINA: Exploring Computational Storage (SmartSSD) Usecase
Vishwanath Maram
Director of software engineering
DPUs
Disaggregated NVMe/TCP Storage Using an Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU)
Yadong Li
Principal Engineer
Storage Architecture
Building Flash-aware Applications with the Software-Enabled Flash™ SDK
Rory Bolt
Principal Architect, Sr. Fellow
Computational Storage
The latest Efforts in the SNIA Computational Storage Technical Work Group (CS TWG)
Jason Molgaard
Principal Storage Solutions Architect,
Emerging Technologies
Data Platform for End-to-end AI Democratization
Jack Zhang
Storage/System Architect
Computational Storage
NVMe Computational Storage – An update on the Standard
Kim Malone
Storage Software Architect
Persistent Memory
Persistent Memories Without Optane, Where Would We Be?
Jim Handy
General Director,
Data Security
Storage Sanitization - The Right Way to Make Data Go Away
Eric Hibbard
Director, Product Planning – Storage Networking & Security
Cloud Storage
Direct Drive - Azure's Next-generation Block Storage Architecture
Greg Kramer
Partner Software Engineer
Storage Resource Management
Managing Ethernet-Attached Drives using Swordfish
Mark Carlson
Principal Engineer, Industry Standards
SMB
SMB Synergy
Tal Widerman
COO
SMB
Accessing Files Remotely with Linux: Recent progress with the SMB3.1.1 client and servers and where do we go from here?
Steven French
Principal Software Engineer,
Data Protection
Container Data Backup - Going Beyond CSI
Sanil Kumar D
Senior Software Engineer
File Systems
Implementing HDFS ACLs in OneFS
Subin Govind
Staff engineer
SMB
smbd, quo vadis?
Volker Lendecke
Developer
--
Developer
Storage Architecture
Why KV SSD will replace ZNS
Andy Tomlin
CEO
Emerging Technologies
Evolving Storage for a New Generation of AI/ML
Somnath Roy
Principal Engineer, System Architecture
Data Security
SSD Firmware Resilience: Approaches & Challenges to protect against emerging threats
Gamil Cain
Lead Product Security Architect
Cloud Storage
Lessons Learned (the hard way) from Building a Global, Decentralized Storage Network
Dan Willoughby
Principal Engineer
Storage Architecture
An approach for impact analysis of flash behavior on QoS in DC/Enterprise SSDs
Yogesh Khurana
Software Engineer
Persistent Memory
Challenges and opportunities in developing a hash table optimized for persistent memory
Steve Heller
CTO
Computational Storage
Green Computing with Computational Storage Devices
Changho Choi
Sr. Director
Storage Architecture
The Challenges in Creating a Clustered Software Defined Fileserver from Scratch on HCI
Dan Chilton
Staff Performance Engineer
Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage Acceleration Layer (CSAL): Enabling Unprecedented Performance and Capacity Values with Optane and QLC Flash
Qinghua Ye
Staff engineer
Cloud Storage
Implementation of Persistent Write Log Cache with Replication in Ceph
Chunmei Liu
Senior Cloud Orchestration Software Engineer
Cloud Storage
Demystifying Edge Devices Cloud Native Storage Services for Different Data Sources
Umang Kumar
Master Technologist
Storage Networking
Converging PCIe and TSN Ethernet for Composable Infrastructure in High-Performance In-Vehicle Embedded Systems
Endric Schubert
Senior Software Engineer
Storage Networking
The Quest for an Autonomous Storage Fabric
Nishant Lodha
Director of Emerging Technologies
Computational Storage
HDD Computational Storage Benchmarking
Storage Architecture
Next Generation Architecture for Scale-out Block Storage
Jaspal Kohli
VP, Storage Software
NVM Express
NVMe/FC or NVMe/TCP an in-depth NVMe Packet & Flow Level Comparison Between the Two Transport Options
Kamal Bakshi
Director Technical Market - Storage Transport Solutions
CXL
Future of Persistent Memory in Form Factors Architectures with CXL
Pekon Gupta
Solutions Architect
Data Security
Data Loss Mitigation through 2-Factor Authentication
File Systems
Design Modern Object Store Server for Lustre file system in the Era of Solid State Storage and Persistent Memory
Yong Chen
Principal Software Engineer Lead and Architect
Data Security
Power of Chaos: Long-term Security for Post-quantum Era
Rahul Vishwakarma
CTO
NVM Express
Optimal Performance Parameters for NVMe SSDs
Dan Helmick
Principal Product Manager
Storage Architecture
24G SAS Advancements for Hyperscale Environments
Rick Kutcipal
At-Large Director, Board of Directors
Computational Storage
Accelerating Near Real-time Analytics with High Performance Object Storage
Mayank Saxena
Researcher
DPUs
Storage Virtualization and HW-agnostic Acceleration using IPDK and xPU
Deb Chatterjee
Senior Director of Engineering
CXL
Memory Disaggregation and Pooling with CXL
Charles Fan
CEO & Co-founder
CXL
Software Defined Memory with CXL and Tiered Memory to Enable Hyperscale Use Cases
Anjaneya "Reddy" Chagam
Cloud Architect
Storage Resource Management
Advances in Storage Fabric Management: Manage Across Multiple Fabrics using Standards-based Interfaces
Michael Aguilar
Software Engineer
Storage Resource Management
Building a SNIA Swordfish™ Implementation: Tips and Tricks
Chris Lionetti
Senior Technical Marketing Engineer
Data Security
Storage Security Update for Developers
Eric Hibbard
Director, Product Planning – Storage Networking & Security
Computational Storage
Computational Storage APIs
Data Security
Product Security Certifications – Who, What, Where, and Why
Eric Hibbard
Director, Product Planning – Storage Networking & Security
Emerging Technologies
RainBlock: Faster Transaction Processing in Public Blockchains
Soujanya Ponnapalli
Ph.D. student
Storage Architecture
SODA Architecture for Data and Storage Management
Lawrence Lai
Sr. Business Development Manager
Keynote Session
Software-Enabled Flash™ Has Arrived
Eric Ries
SVP Memory and Storage Strategy Division
Keynote Session
HPC Scientific Simulation Computational Storage Saga
Gary Grider
Leader, High Performance Computing (HPC) Division
Storage Networking
Storage Appliance Services (nvme-stas)
Claudio DeSanti
VP of Strategy
SMB
What's new in the macOS SMB Client
Brad Suinn
SMB Plumber
Storage Architecture
The Path to Autonomous Storage is Broken
Eric Wright
Staff engineer
Data Security
Zero-Trust or Bust
Eric Hibbard
Director, Product Planning – Storage Networking & Security
SMB
Kerberos/Authentication Updates in Samba
Stefan Metzmacher
Software Architect,
File Systems
Symbolic links Considered Harmful
Jeremy Allison
Engineer
Keynote Session
Why Should the Storage Community Care about CXL?
Yang Seok Ki
Vice President
DPUs
OPI (Open Programmable Infrastucture)
Joseph White
Fellow
Birds-of-a-Feather
Data Processing Units (DPUs)
Mark Carlson
Principal Engineer, Industry Standards
Birds-of-a-Feather
More Thoughts from Opinionated Experts
John Geldman
SSD IO Standards
Birds-of-a-Feather
NVMe
Mark Carlson
Principal Engineer, Industry Standards
Birds-of-a-Feather
SNIA Device and System Level Power Measurement Specifications
Wayne Adams
SNIA Chairman Emeritus,
Birds-of-a-Feather
The Computational Storage Architecture and Programming Model 1.0 standard is out. Now what?
Scott Shadley
Director of Leadership Narrative and Evangelist,
Global
Breakfast
Global
On-site registration
Global
Break
Global
Lunch
Global
Break
Global
SMB3 Interoperability Lab
Global
SMB3 Interoperability Lab
Global
Breakfast
Global
On-site registration
Global
I/O Lab Reception
Global
25th Anniversary Reception Sponsored by Solidigm
Global
Break
Global
Lunch
Global
Break
Global
Break
Global
SMB3 Interoperability Lab
Global
Breakfast
Global
Registration Open
Global
Break
Global
Breakfast
Global
Break
Global
Lunch
DNA Data Storage
DNA Data Storage Roundtable
David Landsman
Distinguished Engineer,
Cloud Storage
More Than Just a Bucket of Bits: Cloud Object Storage turns Sweet Sixteen
Pat Patterson
Senior Manager
Emerging Technologies
Automotive SSD Specification Update
Bill Gervasi
Principal Memory Solutions Architect,
Birds-of-a-Feather
Best Practices for NVMe/TCP Deployment.
Greg Schulz
Independent Industry Analyst & Author
Birds-of-a-Feather
Software Memory Tiering Explored
Sudhir Balasubramanian
Senior Staff Solution Architect & Global Oracle Lead - VMware
Birds-of-a-Feather
Making Flash Software-Defined
Rory Bolt
Principal Architect, Sr. Fellow
Birds-of-a-Feather
NVMe-VFIO Live Migration
Chaitanya Kulkarni
Technical Director
Birds-of-a-Feather
Security/Privacy Protection Considerations for Storage
Eric Hibbard
Director, Product Planning – Storage Networking & Security
Storage Architecture
SNIA SDXI Internals and its Journey Towards Standardizing Memory to Memory Data Movement
William Moyes
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
DPUs
DPU as a Storage Initiator for bare metal performance and virtualization
PratapaReddy Vaka
Sr. Director Software Development
Keynote Session
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Michael Oros
Executive Director
Computational Storage
The Apache Ozone: A Distributed Object Storage System is with Erasure Coding
Uma Maheswara Rao Gangumalla
Principal Storage Solutions Architect
Storage Architecture
Building an Object based STaaS solution with Poseidon Storage
Global
On-site registration
SMB
Making DCE/RPC Calls to Active Directory Time Bound
Amit Gaurav
Software Principal Engineer
SNIA Technical Council
SNIA Technical Council Town Hall
Persistent Memory
A Persistent CXL Memory Module with DRAM Performance
Bill Gervasi
Principal Memory Solutions Architect,
Storage Architecture
Accelerating operations on persistent memory device via hardware based memory offloading technique
Ziye Yang
Staff Software Engineer
Emerging Technologies
AI & Blockchain - The Emerging Duets
Mhamed Kottilungal
Sr Architect
Cloud Storage
What’s faster than a Cheetah and more flexible than a Cirque du Soleil performer? The new SPDK Accelerator Framework!
Paul Luse
Principle Software Engineer
DPUs
SPDK and Infrastructure Offload
Jim Harris
Principal Software Engineer
Storage Networking
Network Stacks for Storage Developers: A survey of all of the tricks to make your network stack fly
Benjamin Walker
Technical Lead
Computational Storage
File System Acceleration using Computational Storage for Efficient Data Storage
Vaishnavi S G
Software Senior Engineer
Storage Performance / Workloads
Protecting NVMe/TCP PDU Data at 400 Gbps
John Kariuki
Cloud SW Engineer
Storage Architecture
Improving flash storage on Android phones
Tejas Chopra
Senior Software Engineer
Storage Architecture
A New Adapter for Zoned Namespace SSD
Hui Qi
Staff Engineer
DPUs
Is storage orchestration a headache? Try infrastructure programming
Jaroslaw Kogut
Cloud Software Architect, Intel
Cloud Storage
Designing multi storage infrastructure in cloud deployment
Parmeshwr Prasad
Principal Engineer
Cloud Storage
Building an Object based STaaS solution with Poseidon Storage
NVM Express
NVMe-oF™ Boot
Doug Farley
Technologist

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