2014 Storage Developer Conference Agenda

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Monday, September 15, 2014
7:30	Registration Opens
7:30- 8:30	Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	File Systems	Storage Architecture	Solid State	Software Defined Storage	NFS
8:30- 9:20	Data Deduplication for Distributed Segmented Parallel Filesystem Boris Zuckerman Distinguished Technologist, HP Oskar Batuner Expert Software Engineer, HP	Using Reinforcement Learning to Optimize Storage Decisions Ravi Khadiwala Software Developer, Cleversafe	Thanks for the Memories: Emerging Non-Volatile Memory Technologies Tom Coughlin Coughlin Associates Ed Grochowski Computer Storage Consultant	SNIA Technical Council: SDS Automation and Orchestration Mark Carlson Senior Staff for Standards, Toshiba Leah Schoeb Sr. Partner, The Evaluator Group	Customer-Oriented Storage Performance Management Dany Felzenszwalbe Senior Systems Engineer, Intel
9:30- 10:20	Toward High-Performance Shadow Migration Youngjin Nam Principal Software Engineer, Oracle Aaron Dailey Senior Manager, Oracle Storage	Cold Data Archival - Cellular Biology as Storage Engines Sanjay Joshi CTO Life Sciences, EMC Isilon	How Persistent Memory will Change Our Approach to Computing Jim Handy Director, Objective Analysis	Horizontal and Elastic Orchestration of Software-Defined Storage Cheng Wu Senior Director, ProphetStor	NFS-Ganesha for Clustered NAS Poornima Gupte Senior Staff Software Engineer, IBM Venkateswararao Jujjuri Sr. Software Engineer, IBM
10:20- 10:35	Break
10:35- 11:25	Updated Implementation of Hadoop Distributed File System Protocol on OneFS Tanuj Khurana Senior Software Engineer, EMC Isilon	Building Next-Gen CDN with Extremely Low Power and High IO Architecture Hong Cai CTO of Cloud Computing, ZTE TX	New Fundamental Data, Storage and Device Technologies Page Tagizad Senior Product Marketing Manager, SanDisk	ViPR - Scalable Distributed Storage Built on Software Defined Storage Fundamentals Shashwat Srivastav Director Software, EMC Kamal Srinivasan Product Manager, EMC	Dynamic Placement Layouts in pNFS Adam C. Emerson Software Engineer, CohortFS, LLC Marcus Watts Software Engineer, CohortFS, LLC
11:35- 12:25	Hadoop on Scality RING Paul Speciale Sr. Director of Product Management, Scality	Green and Energy Efficient Big Data Processing at the Software Level Da Qi Ren Staff Research Engineer, Huawei Technologies Zane Wei Director, Huawei Technologies	Phase Change Memory and Its Positive Influence on Flash Algorithms Rajagopal Vaideeswaran Principal Software Engineer, Symantec Software	New Thinking	Introducing FedFS on Linux Chuck Lever Linux Kernel Architect, Oracle
11:35- 12:25				From ARIES to MARS: Transaction Support for Next-Generation, Solid-State Drives Joel Coburn Software Engineer, Google
12:30- 1:30	Lunch
	File Systems	Storage Architecture	Solid State	New Thinking	Distributed Storage
1:30- 2:20	LustreFS and its ongoing Evolution for High Performance Computing and Data Analysis Solutions Roger Goff Senior Product Manager, DataDirect Networks	Making Storage Smarter Jim Williams Product Manager, Oracle Martin Petersen Linux Storage Architect, Oracle	Flash Data Reduction Techniques and Expectations Doug Dumitru CTO, EasyCo LLC	In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm Diego Ongaro PhD, Stanford University	Taming the Flood: Massively Scalable Semi-P2P Content Distribution Yogesh Vedpathak Software Developer, Cleversafe
2:30- 3:20	BorgFS File System Metadata Index Search Stephen Morgan Senior Staff Research Engineer, Huawei Technologies Masood Mortazavi Distinguished Engineer, Huawei Technologies	Application Agnostic, Analytical Modeling of End-To-End Memory Hierarchy Pradip Mukhopadhyay Member of Technical Staff, NetApp Dhishankar Sengupta Test Architect, Dell Krishanu Dhar Software Engineer Manager, Dell	Experiences Designing a Persistent Memory SDK Paul Von Behren Software Architect, Intel	Failure-Atomic Msync(): A Simple and Efficient Mechanism for Preserving the Integrity of Durable Data Stan Park Research Engineer, HP Labs	SNIA Tutorial: Swift Object Storage: Adding Erasure Codes Paul Luse Senior Staff Engineer, Intel Kevin Greenan Staff Software Engineer, Box
3:20- 3:35	Break
3:35- 4:25	Multi-Protocol Support in GlusterFS Ira Cooper Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat	Deployment Planning and Optimization for Big Data & Cloud Storage Systems Bianny Bian Engineering Manager, Intel	Method to Enhance the Performance of a Storage Array System with SSD Drives Dr. M. K. Jibbe Director of Quality Architect Team, NetApp Kuok Hoe Tan Senior QA Engineer, NetApp	Aerie: Flexible File-System Interfaces to Storage-Class Memory Haris Volos Research Engineer, HP	Next Generation Erasure Coding Techniques Wesley Leggett Senior Software Architect, Cleversafe
4:35- 5:25	Samba and Btrfs - A Snapshot of Progress Jim McDonough Consulting Software Engineer, SUSE and Samba Team	Defining The Software-Defined Technology Market Mario Blandini Sr. Director, Marketing Cold Storage Solutions Group, HGST	StorScore: SSD Qualification for Cloud Applications Laura Caulfield Firmware Dev. Engineer 2, Microsoft Mark Santaniello Sr. Performance Engineer, Microsoft	Tango: Distributed Data Structures Over a Shared Log Mahesh Balakrishnan Microsoft	Cloud
4:35- 5:25					Benchmarking Cloud Storage through Standard Approach Yaguang Wang Sr. Software Engineer, Intel
5:30- 6:30	Plugfest Open House and Reception
	"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
7:00- 8:00	BoF - The Meaning and Value of Measuring Performance of all Solid State Arrays		BoF - The Future Of Cloud Storage: Personal, Ad-hoc, Community-owned Storage Networks		BoF - SMB2/SMB3 Protocol Family Test Tools
8:00- 9:00	BoF - Implementing SDS - Developer Experience		BoF - SSIF KMIP Testing Program

Tuesday, September 16, 2014
7:30	Registration Opens
7:30 - 8:45	Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45 - 9:00	General Sessions Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Molly Rector, Vice-Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors
9:00 - 9:45	RAMCloud and the Low-Latency Datacenter John Ousterhout, Professor, Stanford University
9:45-10:25	Software Defined Storage: Changing the Rules for Storage Architects Ric Wheeler, Director of Red Hat Storage Engineering, Red Hat
10:25-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	New Directions for NAND Memory in the Changing Data Center Era Bob Brennan, Senior Vice President, Samsung Memory Solutions Lab
11:20-12:00	Leveraging Software-Defined Storage to Meet Today and Tomorrow’s Infrastructure Demands Molly Rector, Executive Vice President, Product Management, DataDirect Networks
12:00-1:00	Lunch and Sponsor Showcase
	Breakout Sessions
	Cloud	SMB	RDMA	Big Data	Hardware
1:00 - 1:50	Introducing CDMI 1.1 David Slik Technical Director, Object Storage, NetApp	smb[3]status Michael Adam Team Lead Samba, Samba Team / SerNet {C}{C}{C}	RDMA Requirements for High Availability in the NVM Programming Model Doug Voigt Distinguished Technologist, HP	Big Data Trends and HDFS Evolution Sanjay Radia Architect / Founder, Hortonworks{C}{C}{C}	SNIA Tutorial: Shingled Magnetic Recording – SMR Models, Standardization, and Applications Mary Dunn Technologist, Seagate Timothy Feldman Technologist, Seagate
2:00 - 2:50	One Ring Cannot Rule Them All Gary Ogasawara VP Engineering, Cloudian	Introduction to SMB 3.1 David Kruse Software Developer, Microsoft Greg Kramer Sr. Software Engineer, Microsoft	Running SMB3.x Over RDMA on Linux Platforms Mark Rabinovich R&D Manager, Visuality Systems John Kim Director of Storage Marketing, Mellanox Technologies	SNIA Tutorial: Hadoop 2 : New and Noteworthy Sujee Maniyam Big Data Consultant/Trainer, ElephantScale	Advanced Barium Ferrite Tape Technologies Osamu Shimizu Research Engineer, FUJIFILM Corporation Hitoshi Noguchi General Manager, FUJIFILM Corporation
2:50 - 3:05	Break
	Cloud	SMB	Storage Plumbing	File Systems	Hardware
3:05 - 3:55	Introduction and Evaluations of a Wide Area Distributed Storage System Hiroki Kashiwazaki Assistant Professor, Osaka University	Why SMB3 and How to Implement SMB 3 on Unix/Linux Storage Platforms Dilip Naik Software Engineer, HvNAS Pty	SNIA Tutorial: SCSI Standards and Technology Update Marty Czekalski President, SCSI Trade Assocation	Reliable, Scaling and High Performance Storage System: LeoFS Yosuke Hara Lead Technologist, Rakuten, Inc. {C}{C}{C}	Storage Systems Can Now Get ENERGY STAR Labels and Why You Should Care Dennis Martin President, Demartek
4:05 - 4:55	LTFS Bulk Transfer Standard David Slik Technical Director, Object Storage, NetApp	Beyond SMB3: New Developments in the Linux SMB3 Implementation Steven French Principal System Engineer, Samba Team / Primary Data	Multiqueue Block Storage in Linux Christoph Hellwig Consultant	Open Source Software	Next Generation Storage Networking for Next Generation Data Centers Dennis Martin President, Demartek
				Storage Tiering and Erasure Coding in Ceph Sage Weil CTO, Inktank
5:00 - 7:00	Networking Reception and Sponsor Showcase (Mezzanine)
	"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
7:00- 8:00	BoF - Open Standards vs. Open Source (Cypress Room)		BoF - New SNIA Emerald Recognized Tester Program (Winchester Room)		BoF - Non-Volatile DIMMs: Memory or Storage? (Stevens Creek Room)
8:00- 9:00	BoF - Storage for the Internet of Things (Cypress Room)		BoF - SMR, the ZBC/ZAC Standards and the New Libzbc Open Source Project (Winchester Room)

Wednesday, September 17, 2014
7:30	Registration Opens
7:30 - 8:45	Continental Breakfast and Networking
8:45 - 9:00	General Sessions (Santa Clara Ballroom) Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Don Deel, Chairman, SNIA Technical Council
9:00 - 9:45	Big Data Storage – Challenges for Industrial Internet Shyam Nath Principal Architect, GE Diwakar Kasibhotla Principal Architect, GE
9:45-10:25	Software Defined Storage - Moving Beyond the Hype Greg Scott, Chief Cloud Storage Strategist, Intel - Platinum Sponsor
10:25-10:40	Break
10:40-11:20	Is It Really All Going into the Cloud? Geoff Barrall, Chief Executive Officer, Drobo
11:20-12:00	Who Moved My Bits? Val Bercovici, Big Data and Cloud Czar, Office of the CTO, NetApp
12:00-1:00	Lunch and Sponsor Showcase
	Breakout Sessions
	Object Storage (Cypress Room)	SMB (Winchester Room)	iSCSI (Lafayette Room)	Cloud (San Tomas/Lawrence Room)	Performance (Stevens Creek Room)
1:00 - 1:50	Kinetic Open Storage Platform Mayur Shetty Senior Solutions Architect, Seagate	Evolution of Message Analyzer and Windows Interoperability Paul Long Senior Program Manager, Microsoft	iSCSI Protocol Advancements from IETF Storm WG Mallikarjun Chadalapaka Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Frederick Knight NetApp	Is CDMI and Non CDMI Operations Inter-Operable in Conformance Testing? Sachin Goswami Solution Architect, TATA Consultancy Services Ankit Agrawal Solution Developer, TATA Consultancy Services	Storage Performance Council: Comprehensive, Industry Standard Benchmarks for Storage Products Walter E. Baker CEO/Founder, Gradient Systems, Inc
2:00 - 2:50	Best Practice on Distributed Intelligent Storage with NVMe-SSDs and Fast Interconnect Dieter Kasper CTO Data Center Infrastructure, Fujitsu	Directory Write Leases in the MagFS Distributed File System Deepti Chheda Staff Engineer, Maginatics Nate Rosenblum Architect, Maginatics	Next Generation iSCSI Enterprise Grade Data Integrity and Performance Wael Noureddine Vice President of Technology, Chelsio	Stratus to Cirrus: Avoiding Nose-Bleeds During Upgrades of Cloud Storage Systems Tom Cocagne Senior Software Developer, Cleversafe	SPEC SFS 2014 - The Workloads and Metrics an Under-the-Hood Review Spencer Shepler Architect, Microsoft Nick Principe Senior Software Engineer, EMC
2:50 - 3:05	Break
	OpenStack (Cypress Room)	SMB (Winchester Room)	iSCSI (Lafayette Room)	Storage Management (San Tomas/Lawrence Room)	Performance (Stevens Creek Room)
3:05 - 3:55	OpenStack Cloud Storage Sam Fineberg Distinguished Technologist, HP	A New DCERPC Infrastructure for Samba Stefan Metzmacher Developer, Samba Team / SerNet	Enhancements to the iSER iSCSI Protocol Sagi Grimberg Senior Software Engineer, Mellanox Technologies	Gamification Approach for Next Gen Storage and Infrastructure Management UI Abhinav Jawadekar Sr. Director, Symphony Teleca Vishal Kirpalani Director, Symphony Teleca	NFS over 40Gbps iWARP RDMA Wael Noureddine Vice President of Technology, Chelsio
4:05 - 4:55	Delivering Standards Based SDS Framework with OpenStack SDS Controller Implementation Anjaneya Chagam Principal Engineer, Intel	Scalable CHANGE_NOTIFY Volker Lendecke Developer, Samba Team / SerNet	Testing Performance (Lafayette Room)	Storage Quality of Service for Enterprise Workloads Tom Talpey Architect, Microsoft Eno Thereska Researcher, Microsoft	Impact of Hypervisor Based Data Acceleration Tier on Virtualized Applications Chethan Kumar Member of Technical Staff, PernixData
			Dedupe, Compression and Pattern-Based Testing for Flash Storage: Getting It Right Peter Murray Sr. Product Specialist, Load Dynamix Leah Schoeb Sr. Partner, The Evaluator Group
5:05 - 5:55	OpenStack Manila - File Storage Robert Callaway Reference Architect NetApp’s Cloud Solutions Group, NetApp	Implementing Witness Service for Various Cluster Failover Scenarios Rafal Szczesniak Principal Software Engineer, EMC Isilon	SNIA Tutorial: Synthetic Enterprise Application Workload Testing Eden Kim CEO, Calypso Systems, Inc	Private Cloud Storage Management using SMI-S, Windows Server, and System Center Hector Linares Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Rajesh Balwani Software Engineer, Microsoft	Deploying Ceph with High Performance Networks, Architectures and Benchmarks for Block Storage Solutions John Kim Director of Storage Marketing, Mellanox Technologies
	"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
6:00-7:00	BoF - IP Drives - A New Architectural Partitioning? (Cypress Room)		BoF - SMB 3.1 Follow-up Discussion (Winchester Room)		BoF - Benchmarking with SPEC SFS 2014 (Stevens Creek Room)
7:00-8:00	BoF - StorScore and DiskSpd: Open Source Storage Testing Tools from Microsoft (Winchester Room)		BoF - SNIA Emerald NAS Power Efficiency Measurement Testing (Stevens Creek Room)		BoF - Linux Kernel Storage Developers (Cypress Room)
8:00- 9:00	BoF - Continuous Availability: A Scenario Validation Approach (Winchester Room)

Thursday, September 18, 2014
7:30 - 9:00	Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Professional Development (Lafayette Room)	SMB (Cypress Room)	Security (Winchester Room)	OpenStack (Stevens Creek Room)	Analytics and Big Data (San Tomas/Lawrence Room)
9:00 - 9:50	Leverage Agile Project Management to Foster Collaboration in Distributed Teams Hasnain Rizvi CIO and Agile Coach, AAA University	The Rewards of Jealousy: An SMB2 Toolkit in Python Christopher Hertel Storage Architect, Samba Team / Red Hat Jose Rivera Software Engineer, Red Hat	SNIA Tutorial: Practical Secure Storage: A Vendor Agnostic Overview Walt Hubis Storage Standards Architect, Hubis Technical Associates	How to Manage your Swift Cluster Using Swift Metrics Sreedhar Varma Director, SW Development, Vedams, Inc	From Terabytes to Exabytes, A Paradigm Shift in Big Data Modeling, Analytics and Storage Management for Healthcare and Life Sciences Organizations Ali Eghlima Director of Bioinformatic, Expert BioSystems
	Virtualization (Lafayette Room)	SMB (Cypress Room)	Security (Winchester Room)	Testing (Stevens Creek Room)	Analytics and Big Data (San Tomas/Lawrence Room)
10:00 - 10:50	The Ultimate Storage Virtualization Felix Xavier Founder, CloudByte	Comparing SMB Direct performance Using RoCE, InfiniBand, and TCP Networking Anand Rangaswamy Sr. System Engineer, Mellanox Technologies	SNIA Tutorial: Best Practices for Cloud Security and Privacy Eric Hibbard CTO Security & Privacy, Hitachi Data Systems	Cloud Scale Testing Infrastructure – Cloud Simulation, Fault Injection and Capacity Planning Tanmay Waghmare Principal Test Manager, Microsoft Anitha Adusumilli Senior Test Lead, Microsoft	Big Data Storage Apurva Vaidya Principal Architect, iGate
11:00 - 11:50	Solid State of Affairs: How to Evaluate the Benefits (or not) of SSDs for VMware Irfan Ahmad CTO and Co-Founder, CloudPhysics	Data Deduplication (Cypress Room)	Samba's AD DC: Samba 4.2 and Beyond Andrew Bartlett Samba Developer, Samba Team	iSCSI Protocol Test Suite Tejas Bhise Director of Engineering, Calsoft Arshad Hussain Lead Developer, Calsoft	Emerging Storage and HPC Technologies to Accelerate Big Data Analytics Jerome Gaysse Consultant, Jerome Gaysse Consulting
11:00 - 11:50		Building Efficient All-Flash Scale-Out Block Storage with Deduplication Support Doron Tal Chief Architect, Kaminario
11:50	Sessions Conclude
1:00	Plugfests Conclude

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

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