2021 Conference Presentations
Keynote Sessions
Power-Efficient Data Processing with Software-Defined Computational Storage

Yang Seok Ki, Sr. Director, Samsung Electronics
Quantum Technology and Storage: Where Do They Meet?

Doug Finke Managing Editor, Quantum Computing Report
Unlocking the potential of NVMe-oF and Software Defined Storage Thanks to Programmable DPUs

Sebastien Le Duc, Software Engineering Director, Kalray
Maximizing Flash Value with the Software-Enabled Flash™ SDK

Eric Ries, SVP Memory and Storage Strategy Division, KIOXIA

Rory Bolt, Principal Architect, Sr. Fellow KIOXIA America, Inc.
Beyond Zoned Named Spaces – ZNSNLOG bridging the semantic gap

Chun Liu, Chief Architect at Futurewei Technologies
Innovations in Load-Store I/O causing Profound Changes in Memory, Storage, and Compute landscape

Dr. Debendra Das Sharma, Intel Fellow, Intel Corporation
The Perspective of Today’s Storage Architectures, Viewed Through a Long Lens

Randy Kreiser, Storage Specialist/FAE, Supermicro

Alan Johnson, Director of Emerging Technologies, Supermicro
Panel Discussion: DNA Data Storage - Preserving Our Digital Legacy

Hosted by Dave Landsman, DNA Data Storage Alliance; Director Industry Standards, Western Digital

Moderated by John Hoffman, Lead Scientist, QS-2
Panelists:
Karin Strauss, Sr. Principal Research Manager, Microsoft
Craig Ciesla, VP Advanced Enginerring, Ilumia
Daniel Chadash, Sr. Director DNA Data Storage, Twist Bioscience
Steffen Hellmold, VP Strategic Initiatives, Western Digital
Amazon Aurora storage – Purpose built storage for databases

Murali Brahmadesam, Director of Engineering, Aurora Databases, Amazon
Break Out Sessions and Agenda Tracks Include:
Note: This agenda is a work in progress. Check back for updates on additional sessions as well as the agenda schedule.
BLOCKCHAIN
Applying Blockchain for Digital Identity Management
Abirami Ravichandran, Senior DevOps Engineer MSys Technologies
BLOCKCHAIN
Analysis of Distributed Storage on Blockchain
Tejas Chopra, Senior Software Engineer, Netflix, Inc.
CLOUD STORAGE
Compression, Deduplication & Encryption Conundrums for Cloud Storage
Tejas Chopra, Senior Software Engineer, Netflix, Inc.
CLOUD STORAGE
Compacting Smaller Objects in Cloud for Higher Yield
Tejas Chopra, Senior Software Engineer, Netflix, Inc.
CLOUD STORAGE
Managing Cloud Infrastructure by using Terraform HCL
Kannadasan Palani, Senior Test Manager, MSys Technologies
CLOUD STORAGE
Transparent Encryption and Dual End Point Access Controls to Secure AWS S3 Buckets
Sridharan "Sri" Sudarsan, Director, Ciphertrust Transparent Encryption Engineering, Thales Group
Carlos Wong, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Ciphertrust Transparent Encryption Engineering, Thales Group
CLOUD STORAGE
FlexAlloc a Lightweight Building Block for User Space Data Management
Joel Granados, Staff Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Jesper Devantier, Staff Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Adam Manzanares, Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics
CLOUD STORAGE
Ozone - Architecture and Performance at Billions’ Scale
Lokesh Jain, Software Engineer, Cloudera
CLOUD STORAGE
Apache Ozone - Balancing and Deleting Data At Scale
Lokesh Jain, Software Engineer, Cloudera
COMPOSABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
Future of Storage Platform Architecture
Mohan Kumar, Intel Fellow, Intel
Anjaneya ‘Reddy’ Chagam, Principal Engineer and Chief SDS Architect, Intel’s Data Center Group / Board Member at SODA Foundation, Intel Corp.
COMPOSABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
Disaggregated Data Centers: Challenges and Opportunities
Jason Vanvalkenburgh, Technical Product Management, Fungible
COMPOSABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
High Performance NVMe Virtualization with SPDK and vfio-user
Benjamin Walker, Technical Lead, Intel
COMPOSABLE INFRASTRUCTURE
NextGen Connected Cloud Datacenter with Programmable and Flexible Infrastructure
Bikash Roy Choudhury, Technical Director, Pure Storage
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Computational Storage Update from the Working Group
Scott Shadley, Co-Chair, Computational Storage TWG - VP Marketing, NGD Systems
Jason Molgaard, Co-Chair, Computational Storage TWG - Senior Principal Storage Device Architect, Arm
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
NVMe Computational Storage Update
Kim Malone, Storage Software Architect, Intel
Stephen Bates, CTO Eideticom
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Oscar Pinto, Principal Engineer, Samsung Semiconductor Inc
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Computational Storage Moving Forward with an Architecture and API
William Martin, SSD IO Standards, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Computational Storage Architecture Simplification and Evolution
Jason Molgaard, Sr. Principal Storage Solutions Architect, Arm Inc.
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
The Building Blocks to Design a Computational Storage Device
Jerome Gaysse, Senior Technology and Market Analyst, Silinnov Consulting
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Accelerating File Systems and Data Services with Computational Storage
Brad Settlemyer, Storage Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Computational Storage Deployment with Kubernetes and Containerized Applicationed
Scott Shadley, Co-Chair, Computational Storage TWG - VP Marketing, NGD Systems
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Computational Storage Directions at Fungible
Jai Menon, Chief Scientist, Fungible
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Scientific Data Powered by User-Defined Functions
Lucas Villa Real, Research Software Engineer, IBM Research
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Stop Wasting 80% of Your Infrastructure Investment!
Tony Afshary, Sr. Director, Product Line Management, Pliops
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
SkyhookDM: An Arrow-Native Storage System
Jayjeet Chakraborty, IRIS-HEP Fellow IRIS-HEP and CROSS, UC Santa Cruz
CONTAINER STORAGE
Binitha MT, Software Senior Engineer, Dell Technologies
Deepika K, Software Senior Engineer, Dell Technologies
CONTAINER STORAGE
CSI Driver Design: Bringing a Parallel File System to Containerized Workloads
Eric Weber, Software Engineer, NetApp
Joe McCormick , Software Engineer, NetApp
CONTAINER STORAGE
Containerized Machine Learning Models Using NVME
Ramya Krishnamurthy, Senior QA Architect [Test Expert], HPE
Ajay Kumar, Senior Test Specialist, HPE
Ashish Neekhra, Senior Test Specialist, HPE
CONTAINER STORAGE
Data Protection for Stateful Application: OpenSource Way!!
Ashit Kumar, Lead Architect, SODA Foundation/Huawei Technologies
CONTAINER STORAGE
Data Management Going Beyond Storage Boxes
Sanil Kumar D, Chief Architect, TOC, Arch Lead, Huawei / SODA Foundation
CONTAINER STORAGE
Name Based Addressing for Kubernetes Storage
Jacob Cherian, Chief Product Officer, ionir
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, Quantum Corporation
DATA PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES
Hardening OpenZFS to Further Mitigate Ransomware
Michael Dexter, CTO, Gainframe
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, Xoralgo, Inc
DATA PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES
Fighting Ransomware using Intelligent Storage
Chris Lionetti , Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
DATA PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES
DOTS - A Simple, Visual, Method for Preserving Digital Infomation
Robert Hummel, President, Group 47, Inc.
DATA PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES
Kornel Jakubczyk, Tech Lead, 9LivesData
DATA PROTECTION TECHNOLOGIES
“Streaming Replication” of Object Storage System Data to achieve Disaster Recovery
Gowtham Alluri, Staff Software Engineer, Nutanix Inc
Sarthak Moorjani, Member of Technical Staff, Nutanix Inc
DNA Data Storage
DNA Data Storage and Near-Molecule Processing for the Yottabyte Era
Karin Strauss, Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft
Luis Ceze, Co-founder and CEO, OctoML
DNA Data Storage
DNA storage with ADS Codex: the Adaptive Codec for Organic Molecular Archives
Latchesar Ionkov, Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
DNA Data Storage
From DNA Synthesis on Chips to DNA Data Storage
Andres Fernandez, Senior Director Silicon Engineering, Twist Bioscience
DNA Data Storage
Storing Data over Millennia. Long term Room Temperature Storage of DNA
Marthe Colotte, Platform Operations Manager, Imagene
DNA Data Storage
Scalable and Dynamic File Operations for DNA-based Data Storage
James Tuck, Professor, NC State University / DNAli Data Technologies
Emerging Interfaces
Compute Express Link 2.0: A High-Performance Interconnect for Memory Pooling
Andy Rudoff, Persistent Memory SW Architect, Intel
Emerging Interfaces
PCIe® 6.0: A High-Performance Interconnect for Storage Networking Challenges
Mohiuddin Mazumder, Principal Engineer, Data Center Group, PCI-SIG, Intel
Emerging Interfaces
Enabling Heterogeneous Memory in Python
Daniel Waddington, Principal Research Staff Member, IBM Research
Emerging Interfaces
Moderator: Shyamkumar Iyer, Distinguished Engineer, Dell
Emerging Interfaces
Anjaneya "Reddy" Chagam, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
Manoj Wadekar, Senior Storage Architect, Facebook
Emerging Interfaces
InfiniBand/RoCE RDMA Specification Update
Chet Douglas, Principal SW Architect, Intel Corporation
Hard Drives / HDD
Unleashing the Performance of Multi-Actuator Drives
Arie van der Hoeven, Principal Product Manager, Seagate Technology
Tim Walker, Principal Engineer, Seagate Technology
Hard Drives / HDD
BFQ Linux IO Scheduler Optimizations for Multi-Actuator SATA Hard Drives
Tim Walker, Principal Engineer, Seagate Technology
Paolo Valente, Assistant Professor, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Hard Drives / HDD
Be On Time: Command Duration Limits Feature Support in Linux
Damien Le Moal, Director, Western Digital
Hard Drives / HDD
Facts, Figures and Insights from 250,000 Hard Drives
Andrew Klein, Principle Storage Cloud Evangelist, Backblaze
Hard Drives / HDD
Introduction to HDD Field Accessible Reliability Metrics to Machine Learning Applications
Paul Burnett, Principal Engineer, Seagate Technologies
Hard Drives / HDD
Drive Health Monitor (DHM) for Drives On-Prem (or Core Data Center) and Cloud
Mahmoud Jibbe, Technical Director, NetApp
Charles Binford, Software Architect, NetApp
NVMe
NVMe 2.0 Specifications: The Next Generation of NVMe Technology
Peter Onufryk, Intel Fellow, Intel
NVMe
Towards Copy-Offload in Linux NVMe
Kanchan Joshi, Staff engineer, Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR)
Selvakumar Somasundaram, Engineer, Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR)
NVMe
Enabling Asynchronous I/O Passthru in NVMe-Native Applications
Javier Gonzalez, Principal Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Kanchan Joshi, Staff engineer, Samsung Electronics
Simon Lund, Staff Engineer, Samsung
NVMe
Can SPDK Deliver High Performance NVMe on Windows?
Nick Connolly, Chief Scientist MayaData / DataCore Software
NVMe
Testing NVMe SSDs against the DatacenterSSD Specification
David Woolf, Senior Exec Technology Office, UNH-IOL
NVMe
QEMU NVMe Emulation: What's New
Klaus Jensen, Staff Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Padmakar Kalghatgi, Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Naveen Nagar, Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics
NVMe
Boosting the Performance and QoS of MySQL with ZNS SSDs
Aravind Ramesh, Principal Engineer, Western Digital
NVMe-oF
Automating the Discovery of NVMe-oF Subsystems over an IP Network
Erik Smith, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Dell
NVMe-oF
Intel SmartNIC/IPU Based NVMe/TCP Initiator Offload
Ziye Yang, Staff software engineer, Intel
Yadong Li, Principal Engineer, Intel
NVMe-oF
Scalable Storage Performance for High Density Applications
Jayamohan Kallickal, Distinguished Engineer, Broadcom
Naveen Krishnamurthy, Sr. Product Manager, VMware
NVMe-oF
Challenges and Effects of EDSFF-based NVMe-oF Storage Solution
Duckho Bae, Principal Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Jungoo Kim, Staff Engineer, Samsung Electronics
NVMe-oF
Mukesh Gupta, Technical Staff, Dell Technologies
Murali Murali Rajagopal, Director of Technology, VMware
SECURITY AND PRIVACY
Ransomware!!! – an Analysis of Practical Steps for Mitigation and Recovery
Thomas Rivera, Strategic Success Manager, VMware
Mounir Elmously, Executive, Consulting Services Ernst & Young
SECURITY AND PRIVACY
Privacy's Increasing Role in Technology
Cathleen Scerbo, VP, Chief Information Officer, International Association of Privacy Professionals
SECURITY AND PRIVACY
Emerging Storage Security Landscape
Eric Hibbard, Director, Product Planning – Storage Networking & Security, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
SECURITY AND PRIVACY
Quantum Safe Cryptography for Long Term Security
Basil Hess, Research Engineer, IBM Research Europe
SECURITY AND PRIVACY
Sanitization – Forensic-Proofing Your Data Deletion
Eric Hibbard, Director, Product Planning – Storage Networking & Security, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
SMB
Wen Xin, Software Engineer, Microsoft Corporation.
Steven Tran, Software Engineer, Microsoft Corporation
SMB
To the Cloud and Beyond, Accessing Files Remotely from Linux: Update on SMB3.1.1 Client Progress
Steven French, Principal Software Engineer - Azure Storage, Microsoft
SOLID STATE STORAGE SOLUTIONS
Challenges & Opportunities with Hyper-Scale Boot Drives
Karthik Shivaram, Storage Engineer, Facebook
SOLID STATE STORAGE SOLUTIONS
From DRAM to SSDs, Challenges with Caching at FB Scale
Sathya Gunasekar, Software Engineer, Facebook
SOLID STATE STORAGE SOLUTIONS
SPDK Implementation on a Manycore / Many Node System
Jean-François Marie, Chief Solution Architect, Kalray
Rémy Gauguey, Senior Software, Architect, Kalray
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Netflix Drive for Media Assets
Vikram Krishnamurthy, Senior Software Engineer, Netflix, Inc.
Kishore Kasi, Software Engineer in Data Platform, Netflix, Inc.
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
From NASD to DeltaFS: CMU and Los Alamos's Efforts in Building Large-Scale Filesystem Metadata
Qing Zheng, Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
TCG Storage Workgroup Status Update
Chandra Nelogal, DMTS (distinguished member of technical staff), Trusted Computing Group
Joseph Chen, CEO, ULINK Technology
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Fine Grain Encryption Control for Enterprise Applications
Festus Hategekimana, Senior FW Engineer, Trusted Computing Group
Frederick Knight, Principal Standards Technologist, Trusted Computing Group
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Emerging Computer Architectures Powered by Emerging Memories
Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates, Inc.
Jim Handy, Principal Analyst, Objective Analysis
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Unify Data and Storage Management with SODA ODF
Steven Tan, VP & CTO Cloud Solution, Storage at Futurewei / Board Chairman at SODA Foundation, Futurewei Technologies
Anjaneya ‘Reddy’ Chagam, Principal Engineer and Chief SDS Architect, Intel’s Data Center Group / Board Member at SODA Foundation, Intel Corp.
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Alex Haser, Senior Industry Standards Engineer, Molex, Board Member, SCSI Trade Association
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
A Tiering-Based Global Deduplication for a Distributed Storage System
Sung Kyu Park, Staff Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Myoungwon Oh, Staff Engineer, Samsung Electronics
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
On Asymmetrical Storage Implementations
Josh Salomon, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Orit Wasserman, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
STORAGE NETWORKING
Introducing Fabric Notifications, from Awareness to Action
Howard Johnson, Technology Architect, Broadcom BSN, Member, Fibre Channel Industry Association
STORAGE NETWORKING
SmartNICs, The Architecture Battle Between Von Neumann and Programmable Logic
Scott Schweitzer, Sr. Mgr Product Planning - SmartNICs, Achronix
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
Uncovering Production Issues - with Real World Workload Emulation
Swati Chawdhary, Senior Manager, Samsung
Byju Ravindran, Associate Director, Samsung Semiconductor India Research
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
Unearthing the Impact of Sanitize on Performance and Latency in Embedded Storage
Shankar Athanikar, Staff engineer, Samsung Semiconductor India Research
Sumeet Paul, Staff Engineer, Samsung Semiconductor India Research
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
Kushal Datta, Senior Product Manager, Nvidia
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
Distributed WorkLoad Generator for Load Testing Using Emerging Technologies
Vishnu Murty, Karrotu Automation Technologist, Dell Technologies
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
Next Generation Cloud Data Centers
Jai Menon, Chief Scientist, Fungible
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
FinTech Data Pipelines and Storage I/O Related Benchmarks in Public Cloud
Shailesh Manjrekar, Head of AI, Weka
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
SPDK Schedulers – Saving CPU Cores in a Polled Mode Storage Application
Jim Harris, Principal Software Engineer, Intel
Tomek Zawadzki, Cloud Software Engineer, Intel
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
The Future of the Storage World is Autonomous
Irfan Ahmad, Founder & CEO, Magnition.io
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
Software-Defined Performance Engineering
Irfan Ahmad, Founder & CEO, Magnition.io
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Open Industry Storage Management with SNIA Swordfish™
Richelle Ahlvers , Senior Storage Management Architect, Intel Corporation
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
What’s New in SNIA Swordfish™ in 2021
Richelle Ahlvers , Senior Storage Management Architect, Intel Corporation
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Erich Hanke, Sr. Principal Engineer, Storage and Memory Products, IntelliProp
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Completing the Picture for NVMe and NVMe-oF Management: Guidelines for Implementations
Curtis Ballard, Distinguished Technologist, HPE
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Managing Exported NVMe-oF Resources and Fabrics in Swordfish and Redfish
Phil Cayton, Senior Staff Engineer, Intel Corporation
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Managing Ethernet-Attached Drives using Swordfish
Mark Carlson, Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, KIOXIA
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Building a SNIA Swordfish™ Implementation: A Retrospective
Chris Lionetti , Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Drive Adoption of Your Products with the Swordfish Conformance Test Program
Richelle Ahlvers , Senior Storage Management Architect, Intel Corporation
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Expanding Development of your Swordfish Implementations Using Open Source Tools
Don Deel, Storage Management Architect, SNIA Member
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Accelerating NVMe / NVMe-oF RF/SF Development Using DEM
Rajalaxmi Angadi, Senior Engineer / Lead, Intel Corporation
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Simplifying Client Interactions with SMI-S using PyWBEM
Mike Walker, Storage Management Architect, Storage Networking Industry Association
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
We Addressed the Elephant in the Room with OpenStack Sahara
Ajitha Robert, Cloud Stack Engineer, MSys Technologies