2016 Pre-Conference Primer Agenda

Note: Pre-conference agenda speaker assignments and session times are subject to change.





 Optional Pre-Conference Primer: Sunday, September 18, 2016

11:00 - 2:00

Pre-Conference Registration Opens

 

Breakout Sessions

 

Pre-Conference Seminar
Persistent Memory
(Cypress)
Pre-Conference Seminar
Cloud
(Winchester)
Pre-Conference Seminar
Storage Networking
(San Tomas/Lawrence)
Pre-Conference Seminar
Professional Development
(Stevens Creek)

1:00 - 1:50

Persistent Memory Quick Start Programming Tutorial

Andy Rudoff
Architect Datacenter Software,
Intel

What You Need to Know on Cloud Storage

David Slik
Technical Director,
NetApp

Mark Carlson
Principal Engineer,
Toshiba


SAS: Today’s Fast and Flexible Storage Fabric

Cameron Brett
Director SSD Product Marketing,
Toshiba America Electronic Components’ SSD Business Unit

How Agile is Game Changer in Storage Development and Best Practices to Transform from Traditional Model to Agile Model

Saurabh Bhatia
Storage Test Specialist,
IBM

2:00 - 2:50

Accelerating Flash Storage with Open Source RDMA

Idan Burstein
Architect,
Mellanox

Rob Davis
VP Storage Technology,
Mellanox

Pre-Conference Seminar
Storage Architecture
(San Tomas/Lawrence)
Pre-Conference Seminar
Performance
(Stevens Creek)
Pending speaker confirmation Data Center Workload Analysis

Peter Murray
Principal System Engineer,
Virtual Instruments

2:50 - 3:05

Break

 

Pre-Conference Seminar
Persistent Memory
(Cypress)
Pre-Conference Seminar
Solid State Storage
(Winchester)
Pre-Conference Seminar
Storage Architecture
(San Tomas/Lawrence)
Pre-Conference Seminar
Security
(Stevens Creek)

3:05 - 3:55

The SNIA NVM Programming Model

Doug Voigt
Distinguished Technologist,
Hewlett Packard Enterprise

NVMe virtualization ideas for Virtual Machines on Cloud

Sangeeth Keeriyadath
Senior Staff Software Engineer,
IBM

Beyond the Cloud: Space-based Data Storage

Scott Sobhani
Co-founder & CEO,
Cloud Constellation Corporation – SpaceBeltTM, the Information Ultra-HighwayTM


Implementing Stored-Data Encryption

Michael Willett
VP Marketing,
Drive Trust Alliance

4:05 - 4:55


Object Drives: Simplifying the Storage Stack

Mark Carlson
Principal Engineer,
Toshiba

Pre-Conference Seminar
SMB
(Winchester)
Pre-Conference Seminar
Storage Management
(San Tomas/Lawrence)

 

Cephalopods and Samba?

Ira Cooper
Principal Software Engineer,
Red Hat

Introduction and Overview of Redfish

Patrick Boyd
Principal Systems Management Engineer,
Dell

Richelle Ahlvers
Principal Storage Management Architect,
Broadcom