2013 Storage Developer Conference Agenda

Below is the agenda from SDC 2013 for your reference.

Monday, September 16, 2013
7:30	Registration Opens (Mezzanine)
7:30- 8:45	Continental Breakfast (Mezzanine)
	Cloud (Winchester)	File Systems (San Tomas / Lawrence)	SMB2/SMB3 (Cypress)	Block Storage (Lafayette)	Distributed Storage (Stevens Creek)
8:30- 9:20	CDMI, The Key Component of Scality Open Cloud Access Giorgio Regni CTO, Scality Philippe Nicolas Director of Product Strategy, Scality	Advancements in Windows File Systems Andy Herron Principal Software Developer, Microsoft	SMB3 Meets Linux: The Linux Kernel Client Steven French Senior Engineer SMB3 Architecture, IBM	SCSI Standards and Technology Update Marty Czekalski President, SCSI Trade Association	Getting the Most Out of Erasure Codes Jason Resch Lead Software Engineer, Cleversafe, Inc.
9:30- 10:20	CDMI Federations, Year 4 David Slik Technical Director, NetApp	HDFS - What is New and Future Sanjay Radia Co-founder, Hortonworks Suresh Srinivas, Hortonworks	Mapping SMB onto Distributed Storage Christopher R. Hertel Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat José Rivera Software Engineer, Red Hat	SCSI and FC Standards Update Fred Knight Standards Technologist NetApp	LRC Erasure Coding in Windows Storage Spaces Cheng Huang Researcher, Microsoft Research
10:20- 10:35	Break (Mezzanine)
10:35- 11:25	LTFS and CDMI - Tape for the Cloud David Slik Technical Director, NetApp	Multiprotocol Locking and Lock Failover in OneFS Aravind Velamur Srinivasan Senior Software Engineer, EMC, Isilon Systems	Pike - Making SMB Testing Less Torturous Brian Koropoff Consulting Software Engineer, EMC Isilon	Extending SAS Connectivity in the Data Center Bob Hansen Storage Architecture Consultant, LHP Consulting Group	Distributed Storage on Limping Hardware Andrew Baptist Lead Architect, Cleversafe
11:35- 12:25	Open-source CDMI-compliant proxy: "Stoxy" Ilja Livenson KTH Royal Institute of Technology	Snapshots for IBRIX - Highly Distributed Segmented Parallel FS Boris Zuckerman Distinguish Technologist, HP	Exploiting the High Availability features in SMB 3.0 to support Speed and Scale James Cain Principal Software Architect, Quantel Ltd	FCoE Direct End-Node to End-Node (aka FCoE VN2VN) John Hufferd Hufferd Enterprises	Method to Establish a High Availability and High Performance Storage Array in a Green Environment M. K. Jibbe Director of Quality Architect Team for All APG Products, NetApp Marlin Gwaltney Quality Architect, NetApp
12:30- 1:30	Lunch (Terra Courtyard)
	Cloud (Winchester)	File Systems (San Tomas / Lawrence)	SMB2/SMB3 (Cypress)	Object Storage (Lafayette)	Distributed Storage (Stevens Creek)
1:30- 2:20	Profile Based Compliance Testing of CDMI: Approach, Challenges & Best Practices Testing of CDMI: Approach, Challenges & Best Practices Sachin Goswami Solution Architect, and Storage COE Head@ Hi Tech, Tata Consultancy Services Udayan Singh Head SPE-Storage & Platform and Lead Innovate@HiTech, Tata Consultancy Services	Snapshot Cauterization Sandeep Joshi Manager, EMC Narain C. Ramdass Manager, EMC	SMB3 Update David Kruse Development Lead, Microsoft	Huawei SmartDisk Based Object Storage UDS Qingchao Luo Cloud Storage Architect, Huawei	Transforming PCIe-SSDs and HDDs with Infiniband into Scalable Enterprise Storage Dieter Kasper Principal Architect, Fujitsu
2:30- 3:20	Lessons Learned Implementing Cross-protocol Compatibility Layer Scott Horan Integration Engineer, Cleversafe, Inc	Cluster Shared Volumes Vladimir Petter Principal Software Design Engineer, Microsoft	Implementation of SMB3.0 in Scale-Out NAS Kalyan Das Chief Architect, Storage Protocols, Huawei Technologies Jun Liu Software Architect - Storage and NAS, Huawei Technologies	Architecting Block and Object Geo-replication Solutions with Ceph Sage Weil Founder & CTO, Inktank	Software Defined X (Stevens Creek)
2:30- 3:20					Defining Software Defined Storage Lazarus Vekiarides Entrepreneur and Technology Executive
3:20- 3:35	Break (Mezzanine)
	Cloud (Winchester)	File Systems (San Tomas / Lawrence)	SMB2/SMB3 (Cypress)	Hardware (Lafayette)	Software Defined X (Stevens Creek)
3:35- 4:25	COSBench: A Benchmark Tool for Cloud Storage Yaguang Wang Sr. Software Engineer, Intel	Balancing Storage Utilization Across a Global Namespace Manish Motwani Lead Software Developer, Cleversafe	1 S(a) 2 M 3 B(a) 4 Michael Adam Senior Software Engineer, SerNet GmbH	PCI Express and Its Interface to Storage Architectures Ron Emerick Principal HW Engineer, Oracle	Hosting Performance-Sensitive Applications in the Cloud with Software-Defined Storage Felix Xavier Co-Founder and CTO, CloudByte
4:35- 5:25	Architecting An Enterprise Storage Platform Using Object Stores Niraj Tolia Chief Architect, Maginatics	Scale-out Storage Solution Mahadev Gaonkar Technical Architect iGATE	Samba 4.0 released: What Now for the Open Source AD Domain Controller? Andrew Bartlett Samba Developer, Samba Team	PCI Express IO Virtualization Overview Ron Emerick Principal HW Engineer, Oracle	Software-Defined Network Technology and the Future of Storage Stuart Berman Chief Executive Officer, Jeda Networks
6:30- 7:30	Plugfest Open House and Reception (Magnolia Room)

Tuesday, September 17, 2013
7:30 - 8:45	Continental Breakfast (Mezzanine)
8:45 - 9:00	Welcome Remarks Wayne Adams, SNIA Board Chairman Don Deel, SNIA Technical Council Chairman
9:00 - 9:45	The Impact of the NVM Programming Model Andy Rudoff, Architect in the Datacenter Software Division, Intel
9:45-10:25	Windows Azure Storage – Scaling Cloud Storage Andrew Edwards, Principal Architect, Windows Azure Storage, Microsoft
10:25-10:40	Break (Mezzanine)
10:40-11:20	Optical Storage Technologies: The Revival of Optical Storage” Ken Wood, CTO – Technology & Strategy, Office of Technology and Planning, Hitachi Data Systems
11:20-12:00	Hypervisors and Server Flash Satyam Vaghani, CTO, PernixData
12:00-1:00	Lunch and Sponsor Showcase (Mezzanine)
	Cloud (Lafayette)	File Systems (San Tomas / Lawrence)	SMB2/SMB3 (Cypress)	Hardware (Stevens Creek)	Solid State (Winchester)
1:00 - 1:50	Windows Azure Storage - Speed and Scale in the Cloud Joe Giardino Senior Development Lead, Microsoft	A Brief History of the BSD Fast Filesystem Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick Computer Scientist Author and Consultant	SMB Direct update Greg Kramer Sr. Software Engineer, Microsoft Tom Talpey Architect, Microsoft	Addressing Shingled Magnetic Recording Drives with Linear Tape File System Albert Chen Western Digital Jim Malina Technologist, Western Digital	SNIA NVM Programming Model Paul von Behren Software Architect, Intel
2:00 - 2:50	Resilience at Scale in the Distributed Storage Cloud Alma Riska Consulting Software Engineer, EMC	Testing Methodologies (San Tomas / Lawrence)	A Status Report on SMB Direct (RDMA) for Samba Richard Sharpe Samba Team Member, Panzura	InfiniBand Architectural Overview David Deming President, Solution Technology	NVMe based PCIe SSD Validation – Challenges and Solutions Apurva Vaidya Technical Architect, iGATE Sachin Gade Technical Specialist, iGATE
		Testing iSCSI / SCSI Protocol Compliance Using Libiscsi Ronnie Sahlberg Site Reliability Engineer, Google
2:50 - 3:05	Break (Mezzanine)
	Cloud (Lafayette)	Testing Methodologies (San Tomas / Lawrence)	SMB2/SMB3 (Cypress)	Hardware (Stevens Creek)	Solid State (Winchester)
3:05 - 3:55	CDMI and Scale Out File System for Hadoop Philippe Nicolas Director of Product Strategy, Scality	Message Analysis and Visualization in Heterogeneous Environments Paul Long Senior Program Manager, Microsoft	Samba Scalability and Performance Tuning Volker Lendecke Samba Team / SerNet	Infiniband Verbs and Memory Management - RDMA David Deming President, Solution Technology	TBF: A Memory-Efficient Replacement Policy for Flash-based Caches Biplob Debnath Research Staff Member, NEC Laboratories America
4:05 - 4:55	Transforming Cloud Infrastructure to Support Big Data Dr. Ying Xu R&D Lead, Aspera	A Software Based Fault Injection Framework for Storage Server Vinod Eswaraprasad Lead Architect, Wipro Technologies Smitha Jayaram Wipro Technologies	Scaled RDMA Performance & Storage Design with Windows Server SMB 3.0 Dan Lovinger Principal Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Spencer Shepler Principal Program Manager, Microsoft	Introduction to HP Moonshot Tracy Shintaku Distinguished Technologist, HP Server Engineering R&D, HP	Delivering Nanosecond-Class Persistent Storage Steffen Hellmold Vice President of Marketing, Everspin Technologies
5:00 - 7:00	Welcome Reception - Sponsor Showcase (Mezzanine)
	"Birds of a Feather" Sessions Schedule a BoF
7:00-8:00	BoF - NVM Programming Model - Next Steps		BoF - Licensing Microsoft File Protocols		BoF - Green Storage – The Big Picture
8:00-9:00	BoF - Available
9:00-10:00	BoF - Available

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
7:30 - 8:45	Continental Breakfast and Networking (Mezzanine)
8:45 - 9:00	Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Don Deel, SNIA Technical Council Chairman
9:00 - 9:45	Storage Infrastructure Performance Validation at Go Daddy – Best Practices from the World’s #1 Web Hosting Provider Julia Palmer, Manager of Virtual Storage and Backup Teams, Go Daddy Justin Richardson, Senior Storage Engineer, Go Daddy
9:45-10:25	Migrating to Cassandra in the Cloud, the Netflix Way Jason Brown, Senior Software Engineer, Netflix
10:25-10:40	Break (Mezzanine)
10:40-11:20	Platform as a Service and the Newton: One of These Things is Just Like the Other Gerald Carter, Senior Consulting Engineer, EMC, Isilon Storage Division
11:20-12:15	Software Defined Storage Roundtable Moderator: Leah Schoeb, Senior Partner, Evaluator Group Panelists: Alan Yoder, Senior Manager Storage Standards, Huawei Dale Degen, Sr. Marketing Manager, HP Storage Lazarus Vekiarides, Entrepreneur and Technology Executive Rick Walsworth, Director Product Marketing, EMC Satyam Vaghani, CTO, PernixData
12:15-1:15	Lunch and Sponsor Showcase (Mezzanine)
	Long Term Retention (San Tomas / Lawrence)	NFS (Cypress)	Hot Topics (Winchester)	New Thinking (Stevens Creek)	Performance (Lafayette)
1:15 - 2:05	Combining SNIA Cloud, Tape and Container Format Technologies for the Long Term Retention of Big Data Sam Fineberg Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Simona Rabinovici-Cohen Research Staff Member, IBM	NFS on Steroids: Building Worldwide Distributed File System Gregory Touretsky Solutions Architect, Intel	Can Your Storage Infrastructure Handle the Coming Data Storm? Amritam Putatunda Technical Marketing Engineer, Ixia	Screaming Fast Galois Field Arithmetic Using Intel SIMD Instructions Ethan Miller Solutions Architect, Professor, Director of the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center, University of California	High-Throughput Cloud Storage Over Faulty Networks Yogesh Vedpathak Software Developer, Cleversafe Inc
2:15 - 3:05	Best Practices, Optimized Interfaces, API’s designed for Storing Massive Quantities of Long Term Retention Data Stacy Schwarz-Gardner Strategic Technical Architect, Spectra Logic	Implementing NFSv3 in Userspace: Design and Challenges Tai Horgan Software Engineer, EMC	OpenStack Cloud Storage Dr. Sam Fineberg Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett-Packard Company	NV-Heaps: Making Persistent Objects Fast and Safe with Next-Generation Non-Volatile Memories Joel Coburn Software Engineer, Google/UCSD	Forget IOPS: A Proper Way to Characterize & Test Storage Performance Peter Murray Senior Product Specialist, SwiftTest
3:05 - 3:20	Break (Mezzanine)
	Big Data (San Tomas / Lawrence)	NFS (Cypress)	Data Management (Winchester)	New Thinking (Stevens Creek)	Performance (Lafayette)
3:20 - 4:10	Can Storage fix Hadoop? John Webster Senior Partner, Evaluator Group	pNFS, NFSv4.1, FedFS and Future NFS Developments Tom Haynes Ph.D., Sr. Engineer, NetApp	Data Deduplication as a Platform for Virtualization and High Scale Storage Adi Oltean Principal Software Design Engineer, Microsoft Sudipta Sengupta Sr. Researcher, Microsoft	LazyBase: Trading Freshness for Performance in a Scalable Database Brad Morrey Senior Research Scientist, HP Labs	Improvements in Storage Energy Efficiency via Storage Subystem Cache and Tiering Chuck Paridon Storage Performance Architect, Hewlett Packard Herb Tanzer Storage Hardware Architect, Hewlett Packard
4:20 - 5:10	Hadoop: Embracing Future Hardware Sanjay Radia Co-founder, Hortonworks Suresh Srinivas Hortonworks	pNFS Directions Matt Benjamin Founder, Cohort LLC Adam Emerson Developer, Cohort LLC	Virtual Machine Archival System Parag Kulkarni VP Engineering, Calsoft Inc. Dr. Anupam Bhide CEO Co-Founder, Calsoft Inc.	GraphChi: Large-Scale Graph Computation on Just a PC Aapo Kyrola Ph.D. Student, CMU Computer Science Department	Lessons Learned Tuning HP's SMB Server with the FSCT Benchmark Bret McKee Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Vinod Eswaraprasad Lead Architect, WiPro Technologies
	“Birds of a Feather” Meetings Schedule a BoF
7:00-8:00	BoF - Building a Linux Storage Appliance with Data Optimization		BoF - Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP)
8:00-9:00	pNFS Open Discussion
9:00-10:00	BoF - Available

Thursday, September 19, 2013
7:30 - 8:30	Continental Breakfast (Mezzanine)
8:15 - 8:30	Introduction to the Day, Housekeeping and Other Announcements Wayne Adams, SNIA Board Chairman Don Deel, SNIA Technical Council Chair Gilda Foss, SNIA Analytics and Big Data Committee Chairperson
8:30 - 9:20	Closing Keynote: Worlds Colliding: Why Big Data Changes How to Think about Enterprise Storage Addison Snell, CEO, Intersect360 Research
	Security (San Tomas)	End User Viewpoint (Lawrence)	Storage Utilities (Lafayette)	Workloads (Cypress)
9:30 - 10:20	Trusted Computing Technologies for Storage Dr. Michael Willett Storage Security Strategist, Samsung	Demand for Storage Systems from a Customer Viewpoint in Japan Satoshi Uda Assistant Professor, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)	Building the Public Storage Utility Wesley Leggette Software Architect, Cleversafe, Inc.	Tunneling SCSI over SMB: Shared VHDX files for Guest Clustering in Windows Server 2012 R2 Jose Barreto Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Matt Kurjanowicz Software Development Engineer, Microsoft
10:20 - 10:30	Break (Mezzanine)
	Security (San Tomas)	Development Methodologies (Lawrence)	Storage Management (Lafayette)	Workloads (Cypress)
10:30 - 11:20	Multi-vendor Key Management – Does It Actually Work? Tim Hudson Technical Director, Cryptsoft Pty Ltd	A Method to Establish Concurrent Rapid Development Cycle and High Quality in a Storage Array System Environment M. K. Jibbe Director of Quality Architect Team NetApp APG Products, NetApp Kuok Hoe Tan QA Architect NetApp	Prequel: Distributed Caching and WAN Acceleration Jose Rivera Software Engineer, Red Hat Christopher R. Hertel Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat	An SMB3 Engineer’s View of Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Workloads Gerald Carter Sr. Consulting Software Engineer, EMC
11:25 - 12:15	Matching Security to Data Threats – More is Not Better, but Less Can be Bad Chris Winter Director Product Management, SafeNet	Code Coverage as a Process Aruna Prabakar Software Engineer, EMC Niranjan Page Engineering Manager, EMC	A Method to Backup and Restore Configuration Settings for Each and Every Component in the SAN Environment Using SMIS Dhishankar Sengupta Test Architect, NetApp Krishanu Dhar Test Lead, NetApp	Direct NFS – Design Considerations for Next-gen NAS Appliances Optimized for Database Workloads Gurmeet Goindi Principal Product Manager, Oracle Akshay Shah Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
12:00	Cloud Interoperability Plugfest Concludes
12:15	Sessions Conclude
1:00	SNIA SMB2/SMB3 and iSCSI Plugfests Conclude

Birds of a Feather Sessions

If you or your company are interested in hosting a BoF session, contact Arnold Jones at arnold.jones@snia.org

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