2011 Storage Developer Conference Agenda

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Monday, September 19, 2011
7:30 - 8:45	Continental Breakfast and Networking
7:30	Registration Opens
	Cloud	File Systems	Solid State	CIFS/SMB/SMB2	Block Protocols
8:30 - 9:20	Programming the Cloud John Kilroy Principal Software Engineer, EMC Fleur Dragan Consultant Software Engineer, EMC	NFSv4 Protocol Development Tom Haynes, Ph.D. Sr. Engineer, NetApp	HDDs and Flash Memory: A Marriage of Convenience Thomas Coughlin President, Coughlin Associates Jim Handy President, Objective Analysis	Hidden Gems in the NAS Protocols James Cain Principal Software Architect, Quantel Limited	SAS Standards and Technology Update Harry Mason Director Industry Marketing, NetApp Marty Czekalski Vice President SCSI Trade Association; Interface & Emerging Architecture Program Manager, Seagate
9:30 - 10:20	CDMI for Cloud IPC David Slik Technical Director, Object Storage NetApp	"The Impossible Takes Longer" : Emulating Windows File System Semantics on POSIX Jeremy Allison Google	Enhance NAND to Expand Enterprise SSD Market Esther Spanjer SMART Modular	Through the Looking Glass; Debugging CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Robert Randall Senior Software Architect, Micron Technologies, Inc Christopher Hertel Storage Architect and CIFS Geek, ubiqx Consulting, Inc	File Systems and Thin Provisioning Frederick Knight Standards Technologist NetApp
10:20 - 10:35	Break
10:35 - 11:25	Open Source Droplet Library with CDMI Support Giorgio Regni CTO, Scality	Leveraging Btrfs Transactions Sage Weil Co-founder, New Dream Network	Emerging Performance Tests for Solid State Storage Devices Eden Kim CEO, Calypso Systems, Inc	Lessons Learned Implementing a Multi-threaded SMB2 Server in OneFS Aravind Velamur Srinivasan Senior Software Engineer, Isilon Systems	Storage Data Movement Offload Frederick Knight Standards Technologist, NetApp
11:35 - 12:25	CDMI Federations, Year 2 David Slik Technical Director, Object Storage, NetApp	Ceph Distributed Storage Sage Weil Co-founder, New Dream Network	PCIe Solid State Storage Devices Robert Randall Senior Software Architect, Micron Technologies, Inc	Implementing SMB 2.1 in Likewise Storage Services Gerald Carter CTO, Likewise Software	Data Integrity from Application to Storage William Martin Engineer Consultant, Emulex
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch (Terra Courtyard)
	Performance/Solid State	File Systems	Solid State	CIFS/SMB/SMB2	Fibre Channel
1:30 - 2:20	Smart Hybrid Storage based on Intelligent Data Access Classification M. K. Jibbe Technical Director, NetApp	The Design and Evolution of the Apache Hadoop Distributed File System Dhruba Borthakur Project Lead Apache Hadoop DFS, Facebook	Hybrid Redundancy System New Approach to SSD Redundancy Avraham Meir CTO, Anobit	Samba Status Report Volker Lendecke Samba Team / SerNet	16GFC Sets the Pace in Storage Networks Scott Kipp Senior Technologiest, FCIA Mark Jones Director Technical Marketing, Emulex
	Cloud	File Systems	Solid State	CIFS/SMB/SMB2	Fibre Channel
2:30 - 3:20	CDMI Conformance and Performance Testing David Slik Technical Director, Object Storage, NetApp	GPFS: Scale-Out File Storage John Palmer IBM	Speeding Up Cloud/Server Applications Using Flash Memory Sudipta Sengupta Senior Research Scientist, Microsoft	CTDB Status: Clustered Samba Growing Up Michael Adam Senior Software Engineer, Samba Team / SerNet	Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) John Hufferd Owner, Hufferd Enterprises
3:20 - 3:35	Break
3:35 - 4:25	Use of Storage Security in the Cloud David Dodgson Software Engineer, Unisys	GPFS-SNC: A Scalable File System for Analytics and Clouds Prasenjit Sarkar Computer Science Researcher and Master Inventor, IBM	SSDs in the Cloud Dave Wright CEO, SolidFire	Experiences in Clustering CIFS for IBM Scale Out Network Attached Storage Dr. Jens-Peter Akelbein, IBM Germany	FCoE: The Next Generation Michael Ko CTO Office, Huawei Symantec
4:35 - 5:25	Authenticating Cloud Storage with Distributed Keys Jason Resch Senior Software Engineer, Cleversafe	Windows 8 File System Performance and Reliability Enhancements in NTFS Neal Christiansen Principal Development Lead, Microsoft	How Scale-Up and Scale-Out Flash-Based Databases Dr. John Busch Founder and CTO, Schooner Information Technology	A CIFS Geek in Exile: What I did on my Holiday Christopher Hertel Storage Architect and CIFS Geek, ubiqx Consulting, Inc	Open-FCoE Software Initiator(s): Architecture, Management and Performance Prafulla Deuskar Storage Networking Architect, Intel
5:30 - 6:30				Introduction to the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest
6:30 - 7:30	Plugfest Open House and Reception

Tuesday, September 20, 2011
7:30 - 8:45	Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45 - 9:00	Welcome Remarks Wayne Adams, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors Richelle Ahlvers, Chairperson, SNIA Technical Council
9:00 - 9:50	Featured Speaker Linux File & Storage Systems: Enabling the Latest Storage Hardware in Linux Ric Wheeler, File System Team Manager and Architect, Red Hat
9:50-10:40	Featured Speakers The Future of File Protocols: SMB 2.2 in the Data Center Dr. Thomas Pfenning, General Manager, Microsoft Jim Pinkerton, Partner Architect, File Server Technologies, Microsoft
10:40-11:10	Networking Break and Sponsor Showcase Open
11:10-12:00	Featured Speaker Scalable Table Stores: Tools for Understanding Advanced Key-Value Systems for Hadoop Garth Gibson, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University, and CTO, Panasas Inc
12:00-1:00	Lunch and Sponsor Showcase (Mezzanine)
	Cloud	File Systems	Data Management	CIFS/SMB/SMB2	Security
1:00 - 1:50	Resilience at Scale in the Distributed Storage Cloud Alma Riska Consultant Software Engineer, EMC	Windows 8: Storage Provisioning and Management Shiv Rajpal Principal Development Lead, Microsoft	Long Term Information Retention Dr. Sam Fineberg Information Management Chief Technologist, HP Software Simona Rabinovici-Cohen Research Staff Member, IBM Research - Haifa	SMB 2.2: Bigger. Faster. Scalier - (Parts 1 and 2) David Kruse Principal Development Lead, Microsoft	Using Protocol Fuzzing to Harden Storage Systems and to Protect Them from 0-day Attacks Mikko Varpiola Senior Security Expert, Codenomicon
2:00 - 2:50	Changing Requirements for Distributed File Systems in Cloud Storage Wesley Leggette Cleversafe, Inc	A Lightweight Layered Compressed File System with Hardware Acceleration Shirish Phatak VP of Technology Shirish Phatak, Altior, Inc	Open Unified Data Protection and Business Continuity Dr. Anupam Bhide CEO/Founder, Calsoft Inc	SMB 2.2: Bigger. Faster. Scalier - (Parts 1 and 2) Mathew George Sr. Software Development Engineer, Microsoft	Adding Role Based Access Control onto a Unix Storage Platform Steven Danneman Senior Software Developer, Isilon Systems
2:50 - 3:05	Break
	Cloud	File Systems	Data Management	CIFS/SMB/SMB2	/etc
3:05 - 3:55	Best Practices in Designing Cloud Storage Based Archival Solution Jim Rice Principal Engineer, EMC	Linear Tape File System (LTFS) Dr. David Pease Senior Technical Staff Member, Manager, IBM	A Centralized Data Protection Application for Cross Vendor Storage Systems Nishi Gupta Tata Consultancy Services Prateek Sinha Storage Solutions Developer, Tata Consultancy Services	Advancements in Backup to Support Application Storage on a File Server Molly Brown Principal Development Lead, Microsoft	A Case Study: Unique NAS Issues and Solutions at The MathWorks Ira Cooper Senior Systems Software Engineer, The MathWorks, Inc
4:05 - 4:55	Tape’s Role in the Cloud Chris Marsh Market Development Manager, Spectra Logic	Interoperability Tools for CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Paul Long Technical Evangelist, Microsoft	FCoE Direct End-Node to End-Node (aka FCoE VN2VN) John Hufferd Owner, Hufferd Enterprises	SMB 2.2 OVER RDMA Thomas Talpey Software Architect, Microsoft Kramer, Ph.D. Software Development Engineer, Microsoft	Deep Dive into CIM Client Development with SBLIM Brian Mason MTS SW 4, NetApp
5:00 - 7:00	Welcome Reception - Sponsor Showcase
7:00-9:00	"Birds of a Feather" Sessions Availability and Schedule TBD

Wednesday, September 21, 2011
7:30-8:45	Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45-9:00	Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Wayne Adams, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors Richelle Ahlvers, Chairperson, SNIA Technical Council
9:00-9:50	Featured Speaker Evolving Enterprise Storage Models Resulting from the Flash Revolution Andy Walls, Distinguished Engineer and Technical Lead, IBM
9:50-10:40	Featured Speaker Leveraging the Cloud for Your Storage Needs Bret Piatt, Director of Corporate Development, Rackspace
10:40-11:10	Networking Break and Sponsor Showcase Open
11:10-12:00	Food Fight Panel NFSv4.1 Implementation/Adoption: The Challenges Ahead
12:00-1:00	Lunch and Sponsor Showcase
	NFS	File Systems	Data Management	CIFS/SMB/SMB2	Storage Management
1:00-1:50	NFS High Availability in Windows Roopesh Battepati Principal Development Lead, Microsoft	Implementing Alternate Data Streams in Likewise Storage Services Wei Fu Software Design Engineer, Likewise Software Gerald Carter Director of Engineering, Likewise Software	Understanding Primary Storage Optimization Options Jered Floyd Chief Technology Officer and Founder, Permabit	SMB2: Advancements for WAN Molly Brown Principal Development Lead, Microsoft Mathew George Sr. Software Development Engineer, Microsoft	Implementing a SMI-S Provider from Checkbox to Industrial Strength Steve Peters Storage Management Software, PMC-Sierra
2:00-2:50	NFSv3 and SMB/SMB2 Interoperability in Likewise Storage Services Evgeny Popovich Senior Software Engineer, Likewise Software	Panel: User mode vs Kernel mode filesystem development Audience Participation actively encouraged!	Etracker: Track Files on Your Laptop and Enhance Your Storage Using Email Uttam Kaushik Manager, Engineering, EMC	Converting an Enterprise Application to Run on CIFS/SMB/SMB2 File Access Protocols Kevin Farlee Storage Engine Program Manager, SQL Server, Microsoft	Proxy Providers versus Embedded Providers (SMI-S) Srinivasa Reddy Gandlaparthi Software Architect, NetApp
2:50-3:05	Break
	NFS	Hot Topics in Storage	Green	CIFS/SMB/SMB2	Storage Management
3:05-3:55	IETF NFSv4 Working Group: What's Next? Spencer Shepler Performance Architect, Microsoft	Advanced Format in Legacy Infrastructures – Disruptive or Transparent? Curtis Stevens Western Digital	A Method to Vary the Host Interface Signaling Speeds in a Storage Array Driving Towards Greener Storage Dr. M. K. Jibbe Technical Director, NetApp Arun Rajendran Software Engineer, NetApp	Thinking Inside the Box: Embedded Active Directory / Storage Appliances Based on Samba Kai Blin Embedded Developer, Samba Team	“Windows Server 8” and SMB 2.2 - Advancements in Management Jose Barreto Principal Program Manager, Microsoft
4:05-4:55	Scale-out NAS with NFS Referrals and pNFS Dmitry Yusupov Vice President Software, Founder, Nexenta Systems	Programmable I/O Controllers as Data Center Sensor Networks: Build and Deliver High-Performance Network and Storage Solutions Sanjeev Datla Senior Director Engineering, Emulex Shaun Walsh VP Marketing, Emulex	Vibration Management System for Storage Performance Gus Malek-Madani CTO and Founder, Green Platform Corporation	Accelerating SMB2 Mark Rabinovich R&D Manager, Visuality Systems	Microsoft SMI-S Roadmap Update Jeff Goldner Principal Architect, Microsoft
	"Birds of a Feather" Sessions
7:00-8:00	BoF Session in the Cypress Room Hiring CIFS Talent by Chris Hertel
8:00-9:00	BoF Session in the Cypress Room Distributed Content Caching by Chris Hertel

Thursday, September 22, 2011
7:30 - 8:30	Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:15 - 8:30	Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Wayne Adams, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors Richelle Ahlvers, Chairperson, SNIA Technical Council
8:45 - 9:35	Closing Keynote Speaker Apache Hadoop Today and Tomorrow Eric Baldeschwieler, CEO, Hortonworks
	Virtualization	Hot Topics in Storage	Testing	Performance
9:45 - 10:35	Advancements in Hyper-V Storage Todd Harris Sr. Software Development Engineer, Microsoft Senthil Rajaram Senior Program Manager, Microsoft	The Role of InfiniBand and Automated Data Tiering in Achieving Extreme Storage Performance Cynthia Mcguire Principal Software Engineer, Oracle	RESTful Fault Injector Jim Rice Principal Engineer, EMC	Pending Speaker Information
10:35 - 10:45	Break
	Virtualization	Best of FAST	Testing	Performance
10:45 - 11:35	NAS for Server Virtualization Dennis Chapman Senior Technical Director, NetApp	Emulating Goliath Storage Systems with David Leo Prasath Arulraj Software Development Engineer, Amazon Award winning paper from the USENIX File & Storage Technology Conference	Challenges of Testing Unified Storage Peter Murray Product Manager, SwiftTest	Performence Analysis of iSCSI & iSER in MPIO Environment Seikh Basiruddin Member Technical Staff, NetApp
11:40 - 12:30	Benefits of ARI support in Virtualization Sivakumar Subramani Senior Project Leader, Wipro Technologies	A Study of Practical Deduplication Bill Bolosky Member, Microsoft Research Award winning paper from the USENIX File & Storage Technology Conference	An Extensible Open-Source ISCSI & SCSI Test Tool Richard Sharpe Architect, Scale Computing	SMB2: Advancements in Server Application Performance Dan Lovinger Principal Software Architect, Microsoft
12:30	Sessions Conclude
1:00	Plugfests Conclude

Birds of a Feather Sessions

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