SNIA Developer Conference September 15-17, 2025 | Santa Clara, CA
SPDEcon Agenda
Agenda times are subject to change.
Flash Memory & Virtualization: Choosing Your Path
Storage Performance for VDI Tools, Techniques and Architectures
The New European Data Protection Regulation - Why You Should Care
PCIe-based Storage Technology Architectural Design Considerations
The State of Solid State Storage
Thomas Coughlin
President,
Coughlin Associates
Sr. Standards Program Manager,
Microsoft
Enterprise Cloud Evangelist,
Dell
Senior Systems Engineer,
Nirvanix
PCI Express and Its Interface to Storage Architectures
Benefits of Flash in Enterprise Storage Systems
Building a successful storage product with Samba
Windows Azure Storage - Speed and Scale in the Cloud
SAS: The Emerging Storage Fabric
Gregory McSorley
Vice President,
SCSI Trade Association;
Technical Business Development Manager,
Amphenol
Co-founder & CEO,
Skyera
CTO Office,
NetApp
Principal Member of Technical Staff,
Oracle
Senior Systems Engineer,
Nirvanix
SCSI Express: Fast & Reliable Flash Storage for the Enterprise
Gregory McSorley
Vice President,
SCSI Trade Association;
Technical Business Development Manager,
Amphenol
Flash Product Planning Manager,
Samsung Semiconductor, Inc
Director of Product Strategy,
Scality
CTO Office,
NetApp
IBM Distinguished Engineer,
IBM Almaden Research Center
Active Archive Strategies and Media Choices for Long Term Data Retention
‘Software Defined Storage’: New Technology, or Just a New Buzzword?
Moderator:
Dr. Alan Yoder, Huawei, Principal Engineer, Storage Standards
Lazarus Vekiarides, Entrepreneur and Technology Executive
Rick Walsworth, Director Product Marketing, EMC
11:35-12:15
Philippe Vincent, President and CEO, SwiftTest 12:15-1:15
1:15-2:05
President,
Hufferd Enterprises
Storage Architect,
Nimble Storage
Oracle Flash Consulting Manager,
IBM
Senior Systems Engineer
Nirvanix
VP Solutions Architecture,
Actifio
2:15-3:05
VP Marketing,
Mellanox
CTO,
EasyCo LLC
Business Development Manager,
JDSU
Founder & CTO,
Inktank
Director, Storage Products,
SGI;
Board Member,
Active Archive Alliance
3:05-3:20
3:20-4:10
Director, Product Marketing,
Brocade
Flash vs. DRAM - It's Not Always about Storage
The Plumbing Power: Open Source Technologies and Market Products together...
FCoE Direct End-Node to End-Node (aka FCoE VN2VN)
Retention Issues within the World of Healthcare
Network Convergence at Blazing Speeds with Fibre Channel over Ethernet
Properly Testing SSDs For Steady State Performance
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7:30 - 8:30 |
Continental Breakfast and Networking
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Storage Plumbing
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Hot Spares
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Storage Performance
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Virtualization
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Security
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8:30-9:20 |
Dr. Joseph White Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks |
Hubbert Smith Consultant CEO, Hubbert Smith LLC |
Kannan Mani Sr. Technical Solutions Architect, VMware |
Irfan Ahmad CTO and Co-Founder, CloudPhysics |
Lee Donnahoo Storage Architect, Microsoft |
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9:25-10:15 |
David Fair ESF- Board of Directors, Unified Networking Marketing Manager, Intel Virtual Storage in a VMware Evaluation Environment Implementing Kerberos authentication in the Large-Scale Production NFS Environment NVM Express: Optimizing for PCIe SSD Performance Peter Onufryk |
Thomas Coughlin President, Coughlin Associates |
Jared Hulbert Software Development Manager, Micron Technology |
Rob Peglar CTO, Americas, EMC Isilon |
Chris Winter Director, Product Management, SafeNet |
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11:25-12:15 |
Lazarus Vekiarides Entrepreneur and Technology Executive |
Harsh Singh Product Marketing Manager, Juniper Networks |
Cameron Brett Director of Solutions Marketing, QLogic |
Sreev Doddadalapur Applications Performance Manager, Mellanox |
Dr. Michael Willett Storage Security Strategist, Samsung |
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12:20-1:10 |
Thomas Nadeau Distinguished Engineer, Juniper Networks |
Chris Lionetti Reference Architect, NetApp |
Kirill Malkin CTO, Starboard Storage |
Big Data: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You | |