2010 Storage Developer Conference Agenda

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Monday, September 20, 2010
7:30 - 8:45	Continental Breakfast and Networking
7:30	Registration Opens
	Standards to Solutions	Filesystem	Cloud	CIFS/SMB/SMB2
8:30 - 9:20	FC-BB-6: New FCoE Functionality David Peterson Senior Advisory Engineer, Brocade	ZFS What's New Jeff Bonwick Distinguished Engineer, Oracle	The Evolution of Cloud Storage - From "Disk Drive in the Sky" to "Storage Array in the Sky" Dan Decasper Co-founder and CEO Cirtas Allen Samuels Co -founder, Cirtas	Are We There Yet: The Long and Winding Road to SMB/CIFS Specifications Christopher R. Hertel Storage Architect and CIFS Geek, ubiqx Consulting, Inc José Rivera SA3G, ubiqx Consulting, Inc
9:30 - 10:20	The Pieces to Managing FCoE John Crandall Architect, Technology and Standards, Network and Storage Management, Brocade	ZFS Advanced Jeff Bonwick Vice President and Senior Software Architect, Oracle	CDMI Specification for Developers Mark Carlson Senior Architect, Oracle	MS-FSA: Describing Wire Visible Behavior of Microsoft File Systems Neal Christiansen Principal Software Development Lead, Microsoft
10:20 - 10:35	Break
10:35 - 11:25	iSCSI and FCOE Testings: What are the Test Challenges Under the Hood of a 10 Gb iSCSI and a 10G FCOE Storage Array Product Certification? Mahmoud Jibbe Distinguished Engineer/ Quality Technologist, LSI Corporation	pNFS Development Status Brent Welch Director Software Architecture, Panasas	Developing with CDMI David Slik Technology Architect, NetApp	CIFS Map of Solaris Jiri Sasek Ing. (Engineer), Oracle
11:35 - 12:25	SMI-S Over WS-Management: A Progress Report Josh Cohen Senior Program Manager, Microsoft Jim Davis CTO, WBEM Solutions, Inc.	OpenAFS: Ten Years of Open Source Storage Systems Jeffrey Altman Gatekeeper and Elder, OpenAFS	Developing a Cloud Client David Moolennar CTO, R2AD, LLC Michael Behrens CTO R2AD, LLC	A Comparison Between the Samba 3 and Likewise Lwiod SMB File Servers Steven Danneman Software Development Engineer II, Isilon Systems
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch (Terra Courtyard)
1:30 - 2:20	Tutorial: “Green Storage is About More Than kWh!” SW Worth Sr. Standards Program Manager, Microsoft	Building Windows File Systems: A Look at the OpenAFS Client for Windows Peter Scott Consulting Partner, Kernel Drivers Jeff Altman President, Your File System Inc	CDMI Clients Rich Ramos Chief Technologist, Consultant	Status of Clustered CIFS Using Samba Volker Lendecke Samba Team / SerNet
2:30 - 3:20	Energy Management: The Key to an Effective Storage Consolidation Strategy Joe Polastre CTO & Co-founder, Sentilla Corporation	Ultra High-Speed Transport Over WAN Michelle Munson CEO & Co-founder, Aspera	The Cloud Data Management Interface Reference Implementation Scott Baker Technologist	IPv6 and Samba/SMB David Holder Co-founder and Director, Erion
3:20 - 3:35	Break
3:35 - 4:25	Introducing and Validating SNIA SSS Performance Test Suite Esther Spanjer Director, SSD Technical Marketing, SMART Modular	Optimizing Disk Layouts for Mixed Sequential Read Workloads Rik Faith, Sr. Member Technical Staff NetApp	Cloud HoLD Introduction: Implementing CDMI for Developers Mark Carlson Senior Architect, Oracle	Implementing SMB2 Within Samba Jeremy Allison Engineer, Google
4:35 - 5:25	Trends in Solid State Storage Jeff Kimmel Senior Technical Director, NetApp	IDA based Virtual Appliance for Secondary Storage Solutions Giridhar Lakkavalli General Manager/Technical Architect, MindTree Ltd	Cloud Storage - Hands on Lab for Developers (HoLD)	SMB2 Meets Linux: Developing the SMB2 and CIFS Kernel Clients for Linux Steve French IBM - Linux Technology Center
5:30 - 6:30			Cloud Storage - Hands on Lab for Developers (HoLD) (continued)	Introduction to the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest
6:30 - 7:30	Plugfest Open House & Reception
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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
7:30 - 8:45	Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45 - 9:00	Welcome Remarks Wayne Adams, Chairman, SNIA Board; EMC Mark Carlson,SDC Program Committee Chairman; Oracle
9:00 - 9:45	General Session Speaker Henry Baltazar, Senior Analyst, Storage & Systems, The 451 Group “Clouds, Convergence and Consolidation”
9:45-10:30	General Session Speaker Sam Fineberg, Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett-Packard “Long Term Information Retention”
10:30-10:45	Break
10:45-12:00	Solid State Storage Panel Discussion: “Is Solid State Storage Ready for Primetime?” Tom Coughlin (Moderator), Coughlin Associates; Marty Czekalski, Seagate; Jim Handy, Objective Analysis; Dr. Easen Ho, Calypso Systems, Inc; Esther Spangler, Smart Modular
12:00-1:00	Lunch (Mezzanine)
	Solid State Storage	Filesystem	Cloud	CIFS/SMB/SMB2
1:00 - 1:50	Storage Acceleration, Driven by Autonomic Software Sam Siewert Chief Technology Officer, Atrato, Inc.	NFS in Windows Platform Jeff Biseda Senior Software Development Engineer, Microsoft	Facilitating the Open Source Community Transition to Cloud Storage Giorgio Regni CTO, Scality Brad King Director Customer Architectures, Scality	Interoperability Tools for CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Paul Long Technology Evangelist Winterop Engineering Team, Microsoft Simon Sun Software Design Engineer, Microsoft
2:00 - 2:50	The Write Endurance of SSDs - Is MLC NAND Fit for Data Centers? Moshe Selfin VP Enterprise Solutions, Anobit	The Metadata Problem - Understanding the Issues and How to Address Them Anand Babu Periasamy CTO & Co-Founder, Gluster	Leveraging Cloud Storage through Mobile Applications Using Mezeo Cloud Storage REST APIs John Eastman CTO, Mezeo Software	SMB Traffic Analyzer - Monitor the Data Flow of Samba Servers Holger Hetterich Level 3 Support Engineer / Samba Developer, Novell
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:55	Flash and the Architecture of Storage Systems Moshe Selfin VP Enterprise Solutions, Anobit	Solving Data Loss in Massive Storage Systems Jason Resch Senior Software Engineer, Cleversafe, Inc	Virtualization Storage Concepts, APIs and Performance Best Practices Aditya Vasudevan Technical Architect, Patni Americas Inc	Evaluating SMB2 Performance for Home Directory Workloads David Kruse Principal Developer Lead Software Developer, Microsoft Dan Lovinger Senior Software Design Engineer, Microsoft
4:05 - 4:55	Hybrid Storage Architecture Marries Performance and Efficiency Bill Mottram VP of Marketing Atrato, Inc	Database Techniques to Manage a Distributed POSIX Namespace and Associated Metadata David Boomer Information Architect, IBM	Using SMI-S with the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) Scott Baker Technologist	Scaling Likewise-CIFS Beyond 50k Concurrent Connections on a Single Node Gerald Carter Senior Software Design Engineer, Likewise Software
5:00 - 7:00	Welcome Reception - Sponsor Showcase
	"Birds of a Feather"
7:00 - 8:00	BoF - "How to participate in SNIA Standards Development" Arnold Jones Technical Council Managing Director SNIA		BoF - "SMI-S and the Role of the Storage Management Initiative" Steve Peters Project Lead PMC-Sierra
8:00 - 9:00	BoF - "Data and Storage Management for Quantum Computing" Lei Liu Principal Engineer Oracle Corporation		BoF - Available
9:00 - 10:00	BoF - Available		BoF - Available
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
7:30 - 8:45	Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45 - 9:00	Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Mark Carlson, SDC Program Committee Chairman; Oracle
9:00 - 9:45	General Session Speaker Jeremy Allison, Engineer, Open Source Programs Office, Google “The Death of File Protocols. This time I really mean it!”
9:45 - 10:30	General Session Speaker Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro, Senior Scientist, HP Laboratories “The challenges of configurable hybrid Memristor-CMOS Integrated circuits fabrication: Physics and Materials Science”
10:30 - 10:45	Break
10:45 - 12:00	Cloud Storage Panel Discussion: “Cloud Storage - Critical Challenges and Trends (and What Impact on Developers...?)” Ashar Baig, Asigra; Val Bercovici, NetApp; Mark Carlson, Oracle; Vincent Franceschini, HDS; Erik Riedel, EMC
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch and Sponsor Showcase
	Storage Management	Virtualization	Cloud	CIFS/SMB/SMB2
1:00 - 1:50	Process of Generating Power from Hard disk Vibration in Datacenters Senthilkumar Vijayakumar TATA Consultancy Services	An Enterprise Messaging Solution using Integrated Open Source Software Prateek Sinha Storage Solution Developer, Tata Consultancy Services	CDMI and Cloud Federation David Slik Technology Architect, NetApp	Embedded Private Cloud Storage Using Samba and Ceph Kai Blin Samba Team
2:00 - 2:50	SMI-S Client and Server Development, from Check Box to Industrial Strength Steve Peters Project lead, PMC-Sierra	"Sparse Storage" for VMs - Often Overlooked Facts Dilip Naik Managing Partner, VMUtil Inc	Hadoop File System Internals Dhruba Borthakur Project Lead, Apache Hadoop DFS, Facebook	Identity Mapping for Windows+UNIX Environments Jordan Brown Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:55	Embedded SMI-S Lessons Learned Mike Lamb TPC, Storage Resource Management Software, IBM	LSI’s VMware vCenter Plug-In: A Study in the Use of Open Source Software Brian Mason Staff Software Engineer, LSI Erik Johannes Staff Software Engineer, LSI	Designing Secure Storage for the Cloud Jesus Molina Security Researcher, Fujitsu America	Unix Extensions for SMB2 - A Protocol Initiative Tom Talpey Architect, Microsoft
4:05 - 4:55	Automatic Generation of SMI Providers David Dodgson Software Engineer, Unisys	Improve Storage Efficiency on Deploying Oracle Databases for Dev/Test in a Virtualized Environment Over NFS Bikash Roy Choudhury NetApp	Cloud Security Using Information Dispersal Julie Bellanca Founder & Director, Cleversafe	Analyzing Metadata Caching in the Windows SMB2 Client Mathew George Sr. Software Development Engineer, Microsoft David Kruse Principal Developer Lead Software Developer, Microsoft
	"Birds of a Feather"
7:00 - 8:00	BoF - Cloud Storage vs Object Storage Jerome Lecat, CEO Scality		BoF - The Latest Updates on Fibre Channel Greg McSorely, Technical Business Development Manager, Amphenol
8:00 - 9:00	BoF - Best of FAST Award winning papers from the USENIX File & Storage Technology Conference! 8:00 pm: "Membrane: Operating System Support for Restartable File Systems" Abhishek Rajimwale, University of Wisconsin 8:40 pm: "quFiles: The Right File at the Right Time" Kaushik Veeraraghavan, University of Michigan		BoF - SSD Applications, Workloads & SSS Architectures Tom Coughlin (Moderator), Coughlin Associates Marty Czekalski, Seagate Eden Kim, Calypso Systems, Inc. Dimitri Obukhov, Sandforce
9:00 - 10:00	BoF - Available		BoF - Available
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Thursday, September 23, 2010
7:30 - 8:30	Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:15 - 8:30	Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Mark Carlson, SDC Program Committee Chairman; Oracle
8:30 - 9:20	Keynote Speaker Geoffrey Moore, Managing Partner, TCG Advisors "Partly Cloudy Business and Innovation in the Internet Era"
	Block Storage	Security	Hot Topic	Virtualization
9:30 - 10:20	Analyzing Large-scale Network Boot Workload for Windows Qiang Wang Development Lead, Microsoft Corporation	Seven Myths About Storage Encryption Dmitry Oblukhov Firmware Security Manager, SandForce Inc.	KMIP - Key Management Interoperability Protocol Implementation Guidance Gordon Arnold Senior Technical Staff, IBM Larry Hofer Technologist, Advanced Development Organization, Emulex	Storage I/O Control: Proportional Allocation of Shared Storage Resources Chethan Kumar Senior Member of Technical Staff, VMware
10:20 - 10:30	Break
	Block Storage	Security	Best Practices in Storage Testing	Advances in Hardware
10:30 - 11:20	Software FCoE – A Case Study Sudheer Nair Technical Architect, Patni Americas Inc Manu Gupta Technical Architect, Patni Americas Inc	The Self- Encrypting Hard and SSD Drive Revolution: Managing the Data at Rest Solutions Robert Thibadeau Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist, Wave Systems, Corp.	BUGS...Catch them before they catch you! A Survey of Storage Test Tools and Industry Best Practices Peter Murray Product Manager, SwiftTest Alan Newman Vice President Marketing SwiftTest	Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) and iSCSI – Uncompromised Performance for Virtual Server Environments Leonid Grossman Vice President, Software Engineering, Exar
11:25 - 12:15	PCI Express I/O Virtualization Explained Richard Solomon Host Interface Architect, LSI	RESTful Filesystems James Cain Principal Software Architect, Quantel Limited	Error Injection on an Emulated Virtual SCSI Disk Pulkit Tanwar Software Engineer, Wipro Technologies	SAS Technical Update and Advanced Connectivity Roadmap Marty Czekalski Vice President, SCSI Trade Association SCSI Trade Association Jay Neer Member Representative SCSI Trade Association
12:15	Sessions Conclude
1:00	Plugfest Conclude

Hot Spares
CIFS	Storage Hardware
Case Study: MS-DFS - Writing New Drivers to Extend Likewise-CIFS Gerald Carter Senior Software Design Engineer, Likewise Software	Out-of-Band Recovery Mechanism for I/O module using Alternate Control Path Mayank Saxena Software Engineer, NetApp

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2010 Storage Developer Conference Agenda