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Optional Pre-Conference Primer: Sunday, September 20, 2015

(Primer sessions are included with SDC full-conference registration. If you are not registered for SDC, there is a $49.00 fee fee for this afternoon of sessions. If you register for just the primer sessions and choose to attend SDC, your $49 fee will be applied toward your full conference pass.)

11:00 - 2:00

Registration Opens

1:00- 5:00

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Monday, September 21, 2015
7:30 - 8:30	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	File Systems (Winchester)	/etc (Cypress)	Cloud (Lafayette)	Protocols (Stevens Creek)	Management (San Tomas / Lawrence)
8:30 - 9:20	Learnings from Creating Plugin Module for OpenStack Manila Services Vinod Eswaraprasad Software Architect, Wipro	Implications of Emerging Storage Technologies on Massive Scale Simulation Based Visual Effects Yahya H. Mirza CEO/CTO, Aclectic Systems Inc	Using CDMI to Manage Swift, S3, and Ceph Object Repositories David Slik Technical Director, NetApp	Using iSCSI or iSER? Ásgeir Eiriksson Chief Technology Officer, Chelsio Communications	DMTF Redfish Overview Jeff Autor Distinguished Technologist, HP
9:30 - 10:20	Leveraging BTRFS, Linux and Open Source in Developing Advanced Storage Solutions Suman Chakravartula Maintainer, Rockstor	How Did Human Cells Build a Storage Engine? Sanjay Joshi CTO Life Sciences, EMC	Unistore: A Unified Storage Architecture for Cloud Computing Yong Chen Assistant Professor, Texas Tech University	Linux SMB3 and pNFS – Shaping the Future of Network File Systems Steven French Principal System Engineer, Samba Team/Primary Data	The State of SMI-S – The Standards Based Approach for Managing Infrastructure Chris Lionetti Reference Architect, NetApp
10:20 - 10:35	Break
10:35 - 11:25	Apache HDFS: Latest Developments and Trends Jakob Homan Distributed Systems Engineer, Microsoft	Apache Ignite - In-Memory Data Fabric Dmitriy Setrakyan VP of Engineering, GridGain Systems	The Developer's Dilemma: Do-It-Yourself Storage or Surrender Your Data? Luke Behnke VP of Product, Bitcasa	Move Objects to LTFS Tape Using HTTP Web Service Interface Matt Starr Chief Technical Officer, Spectra Logic Jeff Braunstein Developer Evangelist, Spectra Logic	Enterprise-Grade Array-Based Replication and Disaster Recovery with SMI-S, Windows Server, System Center and Azure Site Recovery Amit Virmani Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft Jeff Li Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft
11:35 - 12:25	A Pausable File System James Cain Principal Software Architect, Quantel Limited	Integrity of In-memory Data Mirroring in Distributed Systems Tejas Wanjari Senior Software Engineer, EMC Data Domain	How to Test CDMI Extension Feature Like LTFS, Data Deduplication, and OVF, Partial – Value Copy Functionality: Challenges, Solutions and Best Practice? Sachin Goswami Solution Architect and Storage COE Head Hi Tech, TCS	Networking (Stevens Creek)	Deduplication (San Tomas / Lawrence)
				Benefits of NVMe Over Fabrics and Demonstration of a Prototype Rob Davis VP of Storage Technology, Mellanox Technologies	Taxonomy of Differential Compression Liwei Ren Scientific Adviser, Trend Micro
12:30 - 1:30	Lunch and Networking
1:30 - 2:20	Storage Solutions for Tomorrow's Physics Projects Ulrich Fuchs Service Manager, CERN	Testing San Tomas / Lawrence	Deduplication Winchester	Implementing NVMe Over Fabrics Wael Noureddine VP Technology, Chelsio Communications	Distributed Systems Stevens Creek
		Thousands of Users - Do You Need to Test with Them or Not? Christina Lara Senior Software Engineer, IBM Julian Cachua Software Engineer, IBM	Design Decisions and Repercussions of Compression and Data Reduction in a Storage Array Chris Golden Software Engineer, Pure Storage		New Consistent Hashing Algorithms for Data Storage Jason Resch Software Architect, Cleversafe
2:30 - 3:20	Storage Class Memory Support in the Windows Operating System Neal Christiansen Principal Development Lead, Microsoft	Object and Open Source Storage Testing: Finally, a Viable Approach Tim Van Ash VP of Product Management, Load DynamiX	Database (Winchester)	A Cost Effective, High Performance, Highly Scalable, Non-RDMA NVMe Fabric Bob Hansen VP Systems Architecture, Apeiron Data Systems	DAOS – An Architecture for Extreme Scale Storage Eric Barton Lead Architect - High Performance Data Division, Intel
			The Lightning Memory–Mapped Database Howard Chu CTO, Symas
3:20 - 3:35	Break
3:35 - 4:25	ZFS Async Replication Enhancements Richard Morris Principal Software Engineer, Oracle Peter Cudhea Principal Software Engineer, Oracle	Parallelizing a Distributed Testing Environment Teague Algie Software Developer, Cleversafe	The Bw-Tree Key-Value Store and Its Applications to Server/Cloud Data Management in Production Sudipta Sengupta Principal Research Scientist, Microsoft Research	SCSI Standards and Technology Update Rick Kutcipal Product Planning - Data Center Storage Group, Avago Technologies Greg McSorley Vice President, SCSI Trade Association	Beyond Consistent Hashing and TCP: Vastly Scalable Load Balanced Storage Clustering Alex Aizman CTO and Founder, Nexenta Systems Caitlin Bestler Senior Director of Arch, Nexenta Systems
4:35 - 5:25	ReFS v2: Cloning, Projecting, and Moving Data J.R. Tipton Development Lead, Microsoft	Solid State (San Tomas / Lawrence)	IMDB NDP Advances Gil Russell Principal Analyst, Semiscape	Growth of the iSCSI RDMA (iSER) Ecosystem Rob Davis VP of Storage Technology, Mellanox Technologies	Cloud and Files (Stevens Creek)
		Standardizing Storage Intelligence and the Performance and Endurance Enhancements it Provides Bill Martin Principal Engineer Storage Standards, Samsung Changho Choi Principal Engineer, Samsung Semiconductor			Big Data Analytics on Object Stoage - Hadoop Over Ceph Object Storage with SSD Cache Yuan Zhou Software Engineer, Intel Asia R&D
5:30 - 6:20	Cache Service In Distributed FileSystem Zhongbing Yang System Architect, Huawei
5:30 - 7:00	Plugfest Open House and Reception

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Tuesday, September 22, 2015
7:30 - 8:45	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	General Sessions
8:45 - 9:00	Welcome Remarks David Dale, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors
9:00 - 9:45	Innovator, Disruptor or Laggard, Where Will Your Storage Applications Live? Next Generation Storage Bev Crair, Vice President and General Manager, Storage Group, Intel
9:45 - 10:25	The Long-Term Future of Solid State Storage Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis
10:25 - 10:40	Break
10:40 - 11:20	Concepts on Moving From SAS connected JBOD to an Ethernet Connected JBOD Jim Pinkerton, Partner Architect Lead, Microsoft
11:20 - 12:00	Planning for the Next Decade of NVM Programming Andy Rudoff, SNIA NVM Programming TWG, Intel
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	File Systems (Lafayette)	Persistent Memory (Cypress)	Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) (Stevens Creek)	SMB (Winchester)	Software Defined Storage (San Tomas / Lawrence)
1:00 - 1:50	Achieving Coherent and Aggressive Client Caching in Gluster, a Distributed System Poornima Gurusiddaiah Software Engineer, Red Hat Soumya Koduri Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat India	Preparing Applications for Persistent Memory Doug Voigt Distinguished Technologist, HP	SMR – The Next Generation of Storage Technology Jorge Campello Director of Systems - Architecture and Solutions, HGST	SMB 3.1.1 Update Greg Kramer Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft Dan Lovinger Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft	Introduction to CoprHD: An Open Source Software Defined Storage controller Anjaneya Chagam Principal Engineer, Intel Urayoan Irizarry Consultant Software Engineer, EMC
2:00 - 2:50	Petabyte-Scale Distributed File Systems in Open Source Land: KFS Evolution Sriram Rao Partner Scientist Manager, Microsoft	Managing the Next Generation Memory Subsystem Paul von Behren Software Architect, Intel	Host Managed SMR Albert Chen Engineering Program Director, WDC Jim Malina Technologist, WDC	Samba and SMB3: Are We There Yet? Ira Cooper Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat	Software Defined Storage Based on Direct Attached Storage Slava Kuznetsov Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:55	High Resiliency Parallel NAS Cluster Richard Levy CEO and President, Peer Fusion	The NVDIMM Cookbook: A Soup-to-Nuts Primer on Using NVDIMMs to Improve Your Storage Performance Jeff Chang VP Marketing and Business Development, AgigA Tech Arthur Sainio Senior Director Marketing, Smart Modular	FS Design Around SMR: Seagate’s Journey and Reference System with EXT4 Adrian Palmer Drive Development Engineering, Seagate Technologies	Tuning an SMB Server Implementation Mark Rabinovich R and D Manager, Visuality Systems	Cloud and Files (San Tomas / Lawrence)
					GlusterFS - The Thrilla in Manila Ramnath Sai Sagar Cloud Technical Marketing Manager, Mellanox Veda Shankar Technical Marketing Manager, RedHat
4:05 - 4:55	Bridging On-Premises File Systems and Cloud Storage Pankaj Datta Consultant Software Engineer, Isilon Storage Division EMC	Building NVRAM Subsystems in All-Flash Storage Arrays Pete Kirkpatrick Principal Engineer, Pure Storage	An SMR-Aware Append-Only File System Stephen Morgan Senior Staff Research Engineer, Huawei Chi-Young Ku Senior Consultant, Huawei	Azure File Service: ‘Net Use’ the Cloud David Goebel Software Engineer, Microsoft	Distributed Systems (San Tomas / Lawrence)
					Real World Use Cases for Tachyon, a Memory-Centric Distributed Storage System Haoyuan Li CEO, Tachyon Nexus
5:00 - 7:00	Welcome Reception - Sponsor Showcase
	"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 - Getting Started with the CDMI Conformance Test Program		BoF - Enabling Persistent Memory Applications with NVDIMMs		BoF - Kinetic Open Storage – Scalable Objects
8:00 -9:00	BoF - Storage Architectures for IoT		BoF - NAS Benchmarking and SFS 2014 Forum		BoF - Active Directory Integration War Stories
9:00 -10:00	BoF - Using SPEC SFS with the SNIA Emerald Program for EPA Energy Star Data Center Storage Program

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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
7:30 - 8:45	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	General Sessions
8:45 - 9:00	Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements Bill Martin, SNIA Technical Council Chair
9:00 - 9:45	Software Defined Storage - What Does it Look Like in 3 Years? Richard McDougall, Big Data and Storage Chief Scientist, VMware
9:45 - 10:25	Why the Storage You Have is Not the Storage Your Data Needs Laz Vekiarides, CTO and Co-founder, ClearSky Data
10:25 - 10:40	Break
10:40 - 11:20	Emerging Trends in Software Development Donnie Berkholz, Research Director, 451 Research
11:20 - 12:00	Learnings from Nearly a Decade of Building Low-cost Cloud Storage Gleb Budman, CEO, Backblaze
12:00 - 1:00	Lunch and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	Security (Lafayette)	Persistent Memory (Cypress)	Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) (Stevens Creek)	SMB (San Tomas / Lawrence)	New ThinkingClick here for details (Winchester)
1:00 - 1:50	Hackers, Attack Anatomy and Security Trends Geoff Gentry Regional Director, Independent Security Evaluators	Remote Access to Ultra-low-latency Storage Tom Talpey Architect, Microsoft	Strategies for Using Standard File systems on SMR Drives Hannes Reinecke Senior Engineer, SUSE	SMB3 Multi-Channel in Samba Michael Adam Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat	f4: Facebook’s Warm BLOB Storage System Satadru Pan Software Engineer, Facebook
2:00 - 2:50	Mobile and Secure: Cloud Encrypted Objects Using CDMI David Slik Technical Director Object Storage, NetApp	Solving the Challenges of Persistent Memory Programming Sarah Jelinek Senior SW Engineer, Intel	Implement Object Storage with SMR based Key-Value Store Qingchao Luo Massive Storage Chief Architect, Huawei	The Past, Present and Future of Samba Messaging Volker Lendecke Developer, Samba Team / SerNet	Pelican: A Building Block for Exascale Cold Data Storage Austin Donnelly Principal Research Software Development Engineer, Microsoft
2:50 - 3:05	Break
3:05 - 3:55	OpenStack Swift On File: User Identity For Cross Protocol Access Demystified Dean Hildebrand IBM Master Inventor and Manager \| Cloud Storage Software, IBM Sasikanth Eda Software Engineer, IBM	RDMA with PM: Software Mechanisms for Enabling Persistent Memory Replication Chet Douglas Principal SW Architect, Intel	Integrating Cooperative Flash Management with SMR Technology for Optimized Tiering in Hybrid Systems Alan Chen Principal Software Architect, Radian Memory Systems	Calling the Witness: SMB3 Failover with Samba/CTDB Günther Deschner Developer, Red Hat / Samba Team José Rivera Software Engineer, Red Hat / Samba Team	Torturing Databases for Fun and Profit Mai Zheng, Assistant Professor Computer Science Department - College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University
4:05 - 4:55	Multi-Vendor Key Management with KMIP Tim Hudson CTO and Technical Director, Cryptsoft	Object Drives (Cypress)	Performance (Stevens Creek)	SMB 3.0 Transparent Failover for EMC Isilon OneFS John Gemignani Senior Consultant, Isilon Storage Division, EMC	Skylight — A Window on Shingled Disk Operation Peter Desnoyers Professor College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University
		Object Drives: A New Architectural Partitioning Mark Carlson Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba	Designing SSD-Friendly Applications Zhenyun Zhuang Senior Performance Engineer, LinkedIn
5:05 - 5:55	Network Bound Encryption for Data-at-Rest Protection Nathaniel McCallum Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat	Beyond LBA: New Directions in the Storage Interface Abhijeet Gole Senior Director of Engineering, Toshiba	Load-Sto-Meter: Generating Workloads for Persistent Memory Doug Voigt Distinguished Technologist, HP Damini Ashok Chopra Software Intern - Office of Chief Technologist, HP	The Future is Cloudy - Samba Gateways to a Cloud Storage World Jeremy Allison Engineer, Google Samba Team	NVMe Fabric (Winchester)
					Donard: NVM Express for Peer-2-Peer between SSDs and other PCIe Devices Stephen Bates Technical Director, PMC
	"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 - Storage for Containers		BoF - Moving Data Protection to the Cloud: Trends, Challenges and Strategies		BoF - NVMe Over Fabrics
7:00 - 8:00	BoF - Container Data Management Using Flocker		BoF - SNIA and OpenStack: Standards and Open Source
8:00 -9:00	BoF - Available

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Thursday, September 24, 2015
7:30 - 8:45	Registration Opens - Continental Breakfast and Networking
	Breakout Sessions
	NFS (Lafayette)	Networking (Cypress)	Performance (Lawrence)	NVM Programming (San Tomas)
8:30 - 9:20	Introduction to Highly Available NFS Server on Scale-Out Storage Systems Based on GlusterFS Soumya Koduri Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat India Meghana Madhusudhan Software Engineer, Red Hat	FCoE Direct End-Node to End-Node (aka FCoE VN2VN) John Hufferd Consultant, Hufferd Enterprises	Application-Level Benchmarking with SPEC SFS 2014 Nick Principe Senior Software Engineer, EMC Vernon Miller Performance Engineer, IBM	The NVM Revolution Paul von Behren Software Architect, Intel
9:30 - 10:20	Instantly Finding a Needle of Data in a Haystack of Large-Scale NFS Environment Gregory Touretsky Product Manager, Infinidat	Hardware (Cypress)	Online Cache Analysis And Its Applications For Enterprise Storage Systems Irfan Ahmad CTO, CloudPhysics	Virtualization (San Tomas)
		PCI Express Non-Transparent Bridging for RDMA Roland Dreier Member of Technical Staff, Pure Storage		Avoiding Common Storage Development Pitfalls: A Review of the Approaches and Lessons Learned with the VMware vSphere Platform Scott Davis Chief Technology Officer, Infinio Systems
10:20 - 10:35	Break
10:35 - 11:25	pNFS/RDMA: Possibilities Chuck Lever Linux Kernel Architect, Oracle	The Changing Storage Testing Landscape Peter Murray Product Evangelist, Load DynamiX	NVDIMM-SSDs Tested to the SNIA SSD Performance Test Specification Eden Kim CEO, Calypso Systems	Seamless Live Virtual Machine Migration by Mitigating Shared Storage Resource Constraint Sangeeth Keeriyadath Senior Staff Software Engineer, IBM Prasanth Jose Senior Staff Software Engineer, IBM
11:35 - 12:25	Distributed Systems (Lafayette)	RAIDShield: Characterizing, Monitoring, and Pro-actively Protecting Against Disk Failures Ao Ma Principal Engineer, EMC	Storage Performance Analysis for Big Data Processing Da Qi Ren Staff Research Engineer, Huawei Zane Wei Director, Huawei	I/O Virtualization in Enterprise SSDs Zhimin Ding Principle Engineer Design, Toshiba
	Where Moore's Law Meets the Speed of Light: Optimizing Exabyte-Scale Network Protocols Yogesh Vedpathak Software Developer, Cleversafe
12:25	Sessions 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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Birds of a Feather Sessions

Sponsors and Partners of the 2015 Storage Developer Conference Include:

Platinum Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

2015 SNIA SMB3 Plugfest

Underwritten by

In Partnership with

Media Partner and Broadcast Provider

Contributing Sponsors

Association Partners

Media Partners