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Sessions 2022

Conference Sessions
Keynote Speakers / General Sessions
Introduction to Virtual SDC
Michael Oros
Executive Director
Computational Storage
Computational Storage: How Do NVMe CS and SNIA CS Work Together?
William Martin
SSD IO Standards
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
DPUs
Hardware Accelerated ZFS using Computational Storage
Scientist,
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
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, Broadcom; 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
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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
Senior 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?
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
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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
Director of SSD Industry 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
Making Flash Software-Defined
Rory Bolt
Senior Fellow
Birds-of-a-Feather
Software Memory Tiering Explored
Sudhir Balasubramanian
Senior Staff Solution Architect & Global Oracle Lead - VMware
Birds-of-a-Feather
NVMe-VFIO Live Migration
Chaitanya Kulkarni
Senior 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
Storage Networking
Network Stacks for Storage Developers: A survey of all of the tricks to make your network stack fly
Benjamin Walker
Technical Lead
DPUs
SPDK and Infrastructure Offload
Jim Harris
Principal Software Engineer
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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