2016 Storage Developer Conference Agenda

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Note: Speaker assignments and session times are subject to change.

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday

Optional Pre-Conference Primer: Sunday, September 18, 2016
11:00 - 2:00	Registration Opens
1:00- 5:00	Click here for the Sunday Pre-conference Primer Agenda

Monday, September 19, 2016
7:30- 8:30	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Cloud (Stevens Creek)	Filesystems (Winchester)	NVMe over Fabrics (Cypress)	Storage Management (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Hardware (Lafayette)
8:30-9:20	Introduction to OpenStack Cinder Sean McGinnis Sr. Principal Software Engineer, Dells	Design of a WORM Filesystem Terry Stokes Principal Software Engineer, EMC/Isilon	NVMe over Fabrics - High Performance Flash moves to Ethernet Rob Davis VP Storage Technology, Mellanox Idan Burstein Storage Architect, Mellanox	What Can One Billion Hours of Spinning Hard Drives Tell Us? Gleb Budman CEO, Backblaze	The Curse of Areal Density Ralph Weber Consultant, ENDL Texas
9:30-10:20	Cloud Access Control Delegation David Slik Technical Director, NetApp	MarFS: Near-POSIX Access to Object-Storage Jeff Inman Software Developer, Los Alamos National Laboratory Gary Grider HPC Div Director, LANL	NVMe Over Fabrics Support in Linux Christoph Hellwig Sagi Grimberg Co-founder, Principle Architect, LightBits Labs	Managing Data by Objectives Douglas Fallstrom Senior Director of Product Management, Primary Data	Characterizing the Evolution of Disk Attributes via Absorbing Markov Chains Rachel Traylor Research Scientist, EMC
10:20-10:35	Break
10:35- 11:25	USB Cloud Storage Gateway David Disseldorp Engineer, SUSE Linux	Data Integrity support for Silent Data Corruption in Gfarm File System Osamu Tatebe Professor, University of Tsukuba	Persistent Memory (Cypress)	The Data Feedback Loop: Using Big Data to Enhance Data Storage Shannon Loomis Data Scientist, Nimble Storage	Storage Networking (Lafayette)
			In-memory Persistence: Opportunities and Challenges Dhruva Chakrabarti Research Engineer, Hewlett Packard Labs		Performance Implications Libiscsi RDMA Support Roy Shterman Software Engineer, Mellanox Sagi Grimberg Co-founder, Principle Architect, LightBits Labs Shlomo Greenberg, PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, Israel
11:35- 12:25	Service Oriented Cloud Storage Performance Analysis Da Qi Ren Staff Research Engineer, Huawei Technologies Dr. Masood Mortazavi Distinguished Engineer, Huawei, US R&D Center	Optimizing Every Operation in a Write-optimized File System Rob Johnson Research Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University	Enabling Remote Access to Persistent Memory on an IO Subsystem Using NVM Express and RDMA Stephen Bates Sr. Technical Director, Microsemi	Hyper-V Windows Server 2016 Storage QoS and Protocol Updates Matt Kurjanowicz Senior Software Engineer Lead, Microsoft Adam Burch Software Engineer II, Microsoft	Testing (Lafayette)
					Uncovering Distributed Storage System Bugs in Testing (not in Production!) Shaz Qadeer Principal Researcher, Microsoft Cheng Huang Principle Researcher, Microsoft
12:30- 1:30	Lunch and Networking
	Cloud (Stevens Creek)	Filesystems (Winchester)	Persistent Memory (Cypress)	Storage Managementy (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Data Preservation (Lafayette)
1:30- 2:20	Deploying and Optimizing for Cloud Storage Systems using Swift Simulator Gen Xu Performance Engineer, Intel	Hardware Based Compression in Ceph OSD with BTRFS Weigang Li Software Engineer, Intel Tushar Gohad Senior Staff Engineer, Intel Corporation	The SNIA NVM Programming Model Doug Voigt Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise	Time to Say Good Bye to Storage Management with Unified Namespace, Write Once and Reuse Everywhere Paradigm Anjaneya Chagam Principal Engineer, Intel	The Role of Active Archive in Long-Term Data Preservation Mark Pastor Director of Archive and Technical Workflow Solutions, Quantum
2:30- 3:20	Hyper Converged Cache Storage Infrastructure For Cloud Chendi Xue Software Engineer, Intel APAC R&D	Efficient Data Tiering in GlusterFS Rafi KC Software Engineer, Red Hat India	Challenges with Persistent Memory in Distributed Storage Systems Dan Lambright Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat	Security (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Cold Data Storage (Lafayette)
				On-demand Authentication Infrastructure for Test and Development Andrew Leonard Senior Software Engineer, EMC Isilon	Introducing the View of SNIA Japan Cold Storage Technical Working Group on "Cold Storage" Kazuhiko Kawamura Senior Manager - System Engineering, Sony Corporation
3:20- 3:35	Break
3:35- 4:25	Object Storage (Stevens Creek)	Multi-Chance Scalable ARC (Adaptive Replacement Cache) Shailendra Tripathi Architect, Tegile Systems	Building on The NVM Programming Model – A Windows Implementation Paul Luse Principal Engineer, Intel Chandra Kumar Konamki Sr Software Engineer, Microsoft	Testing (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Data Preservation (Lafayette)
	Cutting the Cord: Why We Took the File System Out of Our Storage Nodes Manish Motwani Backend Storage Software Architect, Cleversafe, an IBM Company			Assuring Quality When Objects and Files Converge Julian Cachua Fruchier Storage Test Engineer, IBM Ariday Balderas Alba Software Engineer, IBM	Data Retention and Preservation: The IT Budget Killer is Tamed Shawn Brume Business Line Executive, Data Retention Infrastructure, IBM, The LTO Program, IBM
4:35- 5:25	New Fresh Open Source Object Storage Jean-Francois Smigielski Co-founder and R&D Manager, OpenIO	Performance (Winchester)	Breaking Barriers: Making Adoption of Persistent Memory Easier Andy Rudoff Architect Datacenter Software, Intel	SMB (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Capacity Optimization (Lafayette)
		Optimizing Workload Performance in Virtualized Environment Gaurav Gupta Senior Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services Anurag Mehrotra Assistant Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services		SMB3.1.1 and Beyond in the Linux Kernel: Providing Optimal File Access to Windows, Mac, Samba and Other File Servers Steven French Principal Systems Engineer: Protocols, Samba Team/Primary Data	Smashing Bits: Comparing Data Compression Techniques in Storage Juan Deaton Research Engineer and Scientist, AHA
5:30- 7:00	Plugfest Open House and Reception
7:00-10:00	"Birds of a Feather" Sessions If you or your company are interested in hosting a BoF session, please complete the SDC 2016 BoF Request form
7:00-8:00	BoF: Kinetic Drives and IP Drive Management (Cypress)		BoF: The Future of Ethernet Connected Flash Systems (Winchester)		BoF: Open Source Storage Networking (Stevens Creek)

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Tuesday, September 20, 2016
7:30- 8:45	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45- 12:00	Kinetic Storage Solutions Plugfest
	General Sessions (Santa Clara Ballroom)
8:45- 9:00	Welcome Remarks David Dale, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors
9:00- 9:45	Cloud Architecture in the Data Center and the Impact on the Storage Ecosystem: A Journey Down the Software Defined Storage Rabbit Hole Dan Maslowski, Global Engineering Head, Citi Storage/Engineered Systems, Citigroup
9:45-10:25	Hyperscaler Storage Mark Carlson, Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba
10:25-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Scalable High Performance Flash Systems Jeff Bonwick, Co-founder and CTO, DSSD
11:20-12:00	The Magnetic Hard Disk Drive Today’s Technical Status and Its Future Edward Grochowski, Consultant, Memory/Storage Peter Goglia, President, VeriTekk Solutions
12:00- 1:00	Lunch and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Object Storage (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Erasure Coding (Lafayette)	Persistent Memory (Cypress)	SMB (Winchester)	SMR (Stevens Creek)
1:00- 1:50	Dynamic Object Routing Balaji Ganesan Director Of Engineering, Cloudian Bharat Boddu Principal SW Engineer, Cloudian	Modern Erasure Codes for Distributed Storage Systems Srinivasan Narayanamurthy Member Technical Staff, NetApp	Enterprise Storage RAS Augmented by Native Intel Platform Storage Extensions Tanveer Alam Sr. Platform Applications Engineer, Intel	SMB3 and Linux - A Seamless File Sharing Protocol Jeremy Allison Engineer, Samba Team/Google	The Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) Revolution – Data Management Techniques Examined Tom Coughlin President, Coughlin Associates
2:00- 2:50	Storage Solutions for Private Cloud, Object Storage Implementation on Private Cloud, MAS/ACS Ali Turkoglu Principal Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft Mallikarjun Chadalapaka Principal Program Manager, Microsoft	Fun with Linearity: How Encryption and Erasure Codes are Intimately Related Jason Resch Senior Software Architect, IBM	RDMA Verbs Extensions for Persistency and Consistency Idan Burstein Storage Architect, Mellanox	Improving DCERPC Security Stefan Metzmacher Developer, SerNet/Samba Team	ZBC/ZAC Support in Linux Damien Le Moal Sr. Manager, Western Digital
2:50- 3:05	Break
3:05- 3:55	Heterogeneous Architectures for Implementation of High-capacity Hyper-converged Storage Devices Michaela Blott Principal Engineer, Xilinx/Research Endric Schubert PhD, CTO & Founder, MLE	Next Generation Scale-Out NAS Philippe Nicolas Advisor, Rozo Systems	Low Latency Remote Storage: A Full-stack View Tom Talpey Architect, Microsoft	SMB3 in Samba – Multi-Channel and Beyond Michael Adam Architect and Manager, Red Hat	ZDM: Using an STL for Zoned Media on Linux Shaun Tancheff Software Engineer, AeonAzure LLC
4:05- 4:55	Object Storage Analytics : Leveraging Cognitive Computing For Deriving Insights And Relationships Pushkar Thorat Software Engineer, IBM	Optimize Storage Efficiency & Performance with Erasure Coding Hardware Offload Dror Goldenberg VP of Software Architecture, Mellanox Technologies	RDMA Extensions for Accelerating Remote PMEM Access - HW and SW Considerations, Architecture, and Programming Models Chet Douglas Principal SW Engineer, Intel	Clustered Samba Challenges and Directions Volker Lendecke Developer, Samba Team/SerNet	NVMe – Awakening a New Titan... Deployment, Ecosystem and Market Size Shaun Walsh Managing Partner, G2M Research
5:00- 7:00	Welcome Reception - Sponsor Showcase
7:00-10:00	"Birds of a Feather" Sessions If you or your company are interested in hosting a BoF session, please complete the SDC 2016 BoF Request form
7:00-8:00	BoF: Hyperscaler and Datacenter Storage Update (Cypress)		BoF: Missing in Action: No Bursts in Current Vendor Synthetic Workload Tests. Why They Are Critical to Storage Array Evaluation (Stevens Creek)
8:00-9:00	BoF: Long Term Data Preservation and the SIRF Container Format (Winchester)		BoF: Hollywood & Supercomputing Applications of Persistent Memory and Persistent Memory over Fabrics (Stevens Creek)

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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
7:30- 8:45	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	General Sessions (Santa Clara Ballroom)
8:45-9:00	Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Chair
9:00-9:45	MarFS: A Scalable Near-POSIX File System over Cloud Objects for HPC Cool Storage Gary Grider, HPC Div Director, LANL
9:45-10:25	Overview of Swordfish: Scalable Storage Management Richelle Ahlvers, Principal Storage Management Architect, Broadcom
10:25-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Application Access to Persistent Memory – The State of the Nation(s)! Stephen Bates, Sr. Technical Director, Microsemi
11:20-12:00	Future of Datacenter Storage Carol Wilder, Strategic Planning / Memory & Storage Data Center Group, Intel Niels Reimers, Strategic Planning, Intel
12:00-1:00	Lunch and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Performance (San Tomas/Lawrence)	Security (Winchester)	Solid State Storage (Cypress)	SMB (Stevens Creek)	Storage Management (Lafayette)
1:00-1:50	IOPS: Changing Needs Jim Handy General Director, Objective Analysis Thomas Coughlin President, Coughlin Associates	Storage Security Evolution and Advancements in NVMe Interactions Dr. Jorge Campello Director of System and Software Technologies, Western Digital Corporation; TCG Storage Work Group Chair Thomas Bowen Storage Security Architect, Intel Corporation; Intel TCG Storage Workgroup Standards Representative	The Coming of Ultra-low Latency SSDs Tien Shiah Product Marketing Manager, Samsung	SMB Server: Kernel versus User Space Learnings Oleg Kravtsov Lead Developer, Tuxera	Swordfish Deep-dive: Scalable Storage Management Richelle Ahlvers Principal Storage Management Architect, Broadcom
2:00- 2:50	Bridging the Gap Between NVMe SSD Performance and Scale Out Software Anjaneya Chagam Principal Engineer, Intel Swaroop Dutta Director, Product Management, Storage and Availability Business Unit, VMware Murali Rajaopal Storage Architect, VMware	When Will Self-Encrypting Drives Predominate? Tom Coughlin President,, Coughlin Associates Walt Hubis President, Hubis Consulting	Accelerating OLTP performance with NVMe SSDs Veronica Lagrange Staff Engineer, Samsung Changho Choi Principal Engineer, Samsung Vijay Balakrishnan Director, Samsung	Sailing in Uncharted Waters. A Story of Implementing Apple MacOS X Extensions for SMB2 in EMC Isilon OneFS Server Sumaithri Mukkamalla Software Engineer, EMC/Isilon	Cold Storage (Lafayette)
					Cold Storage: The Road to Enterprise Ilya Kuznetsov Product Manager, YADRO
2:50-3:05	Break
3:05-3:55	Ceph Performance Benchmarking with CBT Logan Blyth Software Developer, Aquari, a division of Concurrent	Active Directory Client Scaling Challenges Marc VanHeyningen Principal Software Engineer, Isilon/EMC	An Examination of Storage Workloads Eden Kim CEO, Calypso Testers	Building a Highly Scalable and Performant SMB Protocol Server Sunu Engineer CTO, Ryussi Technologies	Hyperscaler (Lafayette)
					Standards for Improving SSD Performance and Endurance Bill Martin Principal Engineer Storage Standards, Samsung
4:05- 4:55	SPDK - Building Blocks for Scalable, High Performance Storage Applications Benjamin Walker Software Engineer, Intel Corporation	Multi-vendor Key Management – Does It Actually Work? Tim Hudson CTO, Cryptsoft	Analysis of SSD health and Prediction of SSD life Dr. M. K. Jibbe Technical Director, NetApp Bernard Chan Member Technical Staff, NetApp	Samba and NFS Integration Steven French Principal Systems Engineer Protocols, PrimaryData Corp	Open Storage Platform Delivers Hyper-scale Benefits for the Enterprise Eric Slack Sr. Analyst, Evaluator Group
5:05-5:55	Introducing the EDA Workload for the SPEC SFS® Benchmark Nick Principe Principal Software Engineer, EMC Jignesh Bhadaliya CTO for EDA, EMC	Storage Architecture (Winchester)	Breaking Through Performance and Scale Out Barriers - A Storage Solution for Today's Hot Scale Out Applications Bob Hansen V.P. Systems Architecture, Apeiron Data Systems	Panel Discussion of SMB3 POSIX Protocol Extensions Steven French Principal Systems Engineer Protocols, PrimaryData Corp/Samba Team Jeremy Allison Samba Team, Google	Software-Defined Flash: Tradeoffs of FTL, Open-Channel, and Cooperative Flash Management Craig Robertson Principal Software Architect, Radian Memory Systems
		An Enhanced I/O Model for Modern Storage Devices Martin Petersen Architect, Oracle
6:00-10:00	"Birds of a Feather" Sessions If you or your company are interested in hosting a BoF session, please complete the SDC 2016 BoF Request form.
6:00-7:00	BoF: Using Interoperable Cloud Encryption to Secure Healthcare Records (Cypress)		BoF: Improving the Interoperability and Resiliency of Data Replication (Winchester)		BoF: What Are Real World Storage Workloads and Why Do I Care? (Stevens Creek)
7:00-8:00	BoF: NFS/RDMA (Cypress)

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Thursday, September 22, 2016
7:30- 8:30	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Performance (Lafayette)	Storage Architecture (San Tomas)	/etc (Cypress)	Storage Networking (Lawrence)
8:30-9:20	Reducing Replication Bandwidth for Distributed Document-oriented Databases Sudipta Sengupta Principal Research Scientist, Microsoft	Corporate/Open Source Community Relationships: The OpenZFS Example Michael Dexter Senior Analyst, iXsystems	Delivering Memory Performance with Shared Flash Gurmeet Goindi Technical Product Strategist, Oracle Kothanda (Kodi) Umamageswaran Vice President, Exadata Development, Oracle	iSER as Accelerator for Software Defined Storage Rahul Fiske Engineer, IBM Subhojit Roy Storage Software Engineer, IBM India
9:30-10:20	Performance Analysis of the Peer Fusion File System (PFFS) Richard Levy CEO and President, Peer Fusion	Your Cache is Overdue a Revolution: MRCs for Cache Performance and Isolation Irfan Ahmad CTO, CloudPhysics	Persistent Memory (Cypress)	Capacity Optimization (Lawrence)
9:30-10:20			Persistent Memory Panel: PM RDMA – What’s the Big Deal? Moderator: Doug Voigt Hewlett Packard Enterprise Panelists: Tom Talpey, Microsoft; Idan Burstein, Mellanox; Chet Douglas, Intel	Improving Copy-On-Write Performance in Container Storage Driver Frank Zhao Software Architect CTO Office, EMC
10:20-10:35	Break
10:35-11:25	Green (Lafayette)	Snapshotting Scale-out Storage Pitfalls and Solutions Alex Aizman Chief Advisor and Founder, Nexenta Systems	/etc (Cypress)	Unified Deduplication Louis Imershein VP Product, Permabit Technology Corporation
10:35-11:25	Using SPEC SFS with the SNIA Emerald Program for EPA Energy Star Data Center Storage Program Vernon Miller Senior Software Engineer, IBM Nick Principe Principal Software Engineer, EMC		Iometer for Zoned Block Devices Muhammad Ahmad Senior Staff Software Engineer, Seagate Technology
11:35-12:25	Environmental Conditions and Disk Reliability in Free-cooled Datacenters Ioannis Manousakis PhD candidate Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science	storhaug: High-Availability Storage for Linux Jose Rivera Software Engineer, Red Hat/Samba Team	Early Developer Experiences Extending Windows Nano Server with Enterprise Fibre Channel Software Target Terry Spear President & CTO, IOLogix	Accelerate Finger Printing in Data Deduplication Xiaodong Liu Storage software engineer, Intel Asia R&D Qihua Dai Engineering Manager, Intel Asia R&D
12:25	Sessions Conclude

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