2020 SDC Agenda
Keynote Sessions
Analog Memory-based techniques for Accelerating Deep Neural Networks
Sidney Tsai, Research Staff Member, Manager, IBM
Unlocking the Potential of Flash with the New Open Source Software-Enabled Flash™ API
Eric Ries, SVP Memory and Storage Strategy Division, KIOXIA America Inc., KIOXIA America, Inc.
What’s going on with NVMe? An Examination of New Technology Adoption
Mike Scriber, Sr. Director, Server Solution Management, Supermicro
Storage Next: Disruption, Opportunities and Funding Insights
Parag Kulkarni, Chief Operating Officer, Calsoft
Vipin Shankar, VP of Engineering, Calsoft
Shyamkumar Iyer, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Dell Office of CTO, Dell
Richard Brunner, Principal Engineer and CTO of Server Platform Technologies, VMware
Caching on PMEM: an Iterative Approach
Yao Yue, Sr. Staff Software Engineer, Twitter
Juncheng Yang, Carnegie Mellon University & Twitter
Amazon Elastic File System: Building Blocks for a Cloud-Native File System
Jacob Strauss, Principal Engineer, Amazon
Break Out Sessions and Agenda Tracks Include:
Note: This agenda is a work in progress. Check back for updates on additional sessions as well as the agenda schedule.
BLOCKCHAIN
Off chain storage for Block Chain
Ramya Krishnamurthy, QA Architect [Test Expert], HPE
Ajay Kumar, Senior Test Specialist, HPE
CLOUD STORAGE
Decentralized Platforms Push Edge Networks Closer to the Edge
Ben Golub, CEO, Storj Labs
CLOUD STORAGE
Deep dive on architecting storage application for the public cloud economy
Josh Salomon, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Orit Wasserman, Senior Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
CLOUD STORAGE
Decoupling SDS architectures for agility
Arun Raghunath, Research Scientist, Intel Corp
Yi Zou, Research scientist, Intel Corp
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Deploying Computational Storage at the Edge
Scott Shadley, VP Marketing, NGD Systems
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Tong Zhang, Chief Scientist, ScaleFlux
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
SmartNICs and SmartSSDs, the Future of Smart Acceleration
Scott Schweitzer, Systems Architect, Xilinx Inc.
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Deep Compression at Inline Speed for All-Flash Array
Chris Mao, Principal Engineer, Pure Storage
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Jean-Francois Marie, Chief Solution Architect, Kalray
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Emerging Data-Centric Storage Architectures
Pankaj Mehra, VP of Storage Pathfinding, Samsung Electronics
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
SkyhookDM: storage and management of tabular data in Ceph.
Jeff LeFevre, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, UC Santa Cruz, University of California, Santa Cruz
Carlos Maltzahn, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science & Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
COMPUTATIONAL STORAGE
Implementing Computational Storage Solutions
Neil Werdmuller, Director of Storage Solutions, Arm, Ltd.
Jason Molgaard, Principal Storage Solutions Architect, Arm Inc.
CONTAINER STORAGE
Leveraging Modern Network to Deliver Faster Storage to Database Workloads in Kubernetes
Amarjit Singh, Director, DevOps Solutions, Kioxia America
CONTAINER STORAGE
One CSI plugin for All? Experimenting heterogeneous storage with single CSI plugin for Kubernetes
Sushantha Kumar, System Engineer, Huawei Technologies India Private Limited
Mohammad Asif Siddiqui, System Engineer, Huawei Technologies
CONTAINER STORAGE
SPDK-CSI: Bring SPDK to Kubernetes Storage
Yibo Cai, Principal Software Engineer, Arm
CONTAINER STORAGE
Dynamic Provisioning in Kubernetes of Persistent Volume (PV) and PV Claim (PVC)
Divya Vijayakumar, Senior Software Engineer, MSys Technologies
Arun Kandasamy, Lead Programmer, MSys Technologies
DATA PROTECTION AND DATA SECURITY
Data Sovereign Collaboration Platform for Autonomous Vehicles
Radha Krishna Singuru, DMTS - Senior Member, Wipro Technologies
Akhil Gokhale, Managing Consultant, Wipro Technologies
DATA PROTECTION AND DATA SECURITY
Data Preservation & Retention 101
Thomas Rivera, Strategic Success Manager, VMware Carbon Black
DATA PROTECTION AND DATA SECURITY
OS Level Encryption for Superior Data Protection
Peter Scott, Senior Engineer, Thales, Inc
Rajesh Gupta, Senior Engineer, Thales, Inc
DATA PROTECTION AND DATA SECURITY
Re-Imagining the 3-2-1 Backup Rule for Cloud Native Applications Running on Kubernetes
Jagadish Mukku, Technical Director, Robin.io
DATA PROTECTION AND DATA SECURITY
Data Protection in a Kubernetes-Native World
Niraj Tolia, CEO, Kasten
DATA PROTECTION AND DATA SECURITY
Hannes Reinecke, Kernel Storage Architect, SUSE Software Solutions
Nishant Lodha, Director of Technologies, Marvell
DATA PROTECTION AND DATA SECURITY
Eric Hibbard, Chair, SNIA Security TWG, Managing Director, PrivSec Consulting LLC
DATA PROTECTION AND DATA SECURITY
Trustworthy Storage - Expectations and Realities
Eric Hibbard, Chair, SNIA Security TWG, Managing Director, PrivSec Consulting LLC
DATA PROTECTION AND DATA SECURITY
Ransomware—Is it the Ultimate Malware?
Eric Hibbard, Chair, SNIA Security TWG, Managing Director, PrivSec Consulting LLC
FILE SYSTEMS
Marchive: Extending MarFS to a Long Term Archive
Garrett Ransom, Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
FILE SYSTEMS
Tracing and visualizing file system internals with eBPF superpowers
Suchakrapani Sharma, Staff Scientist, ShiftLeft Inc
Hani Nemati, Software Engineer, Microsoft
FILE SYSTEMS
AuriStorFS, the next generation AFS, and Linux kernel AFS
Jeffrey Altman, CEO/CTO, AuriStor, Inc.
FILE SYSTEMS
Uma Maheswara Rao Gangumalla, Principal Software Engineer, Cloudera
FILE SYSTEMS
NoLoad Filesystem: A stacked filesystem for NVMe-Based Computational Storage
David Sloan, Principle Engineer, Eideticom
Logan Gunthorpe, Principle Engineer, Eideticom"
Stephen Bates, Chief Technology Officer, Eideticom
FILE SYSTEMS
Amazon FSx For Lustre Deep Dive and its importance in Machine Learning
Suman Debnath, Principal Developer Advocate Amazon Web Services
KEY VALUE
A low latency and scalable key value store from modern off the shelf components
Daniel Pollack, CTO, Data Storage Science LLC
NVMe
pynvme: an open, fast and extensible NVMe SSD test tool
He Chu, Engineer, Geng Yun Technology Pte. Ltd.
NVMe
libnvme: An open source library for NVM Express
Keith Busch, Technologist, Western Digital Corporation
NVMe
Future Proof Your Data Center with NVMe™ Technology
John Kim, Director of Storage Marketing, Networking Business Unit, NVIDIA
NVMe
NVMe 2.0 Specification Preview
William Martin, SSD I/O Standards, Samsung
Jonmichael Hands, Senior Strategic Planner and NVM Express Marketing Work Group Chair, Intel
NVMe-oF
High-performance RoCE/TCP solutions for end-to-end NVMe-oF communication
Jean-Francois Marie, Chief Solution Architect, Kalray
NVMe-oF
Optimizing user space NVMe-oF TCP transport solution with both software and hardware methodologies
Ziye Yang, Staff Cloud Software Engineer, Intel
Yadong Li, Lead software architect, Intel
NVMe-oF
NVMe-oF on RDMA performance challenges and solutions in commodity servers
Yamin Friedman, Architecture engineer, Nvidia
Rob Davis, VP of storage technology, Nvidia
NVMe-oF
Improving NVMe/TCP Performance by Enhancing Software and Hardware
Sagi Grimberg, CTO, lightbits
Anil Vasudevan, Architect, Intel
NVMe-oF
Tuning and Optimizing Ethernet-based NVMe over Fabric transport Protocols
Dave Minturn, Principal Engineer, Intel
Anil Vasudevan, Architect, Intel
NVMe-oF
Future Proof Your Data Center with NVMe™ Technology
John Kim, Director of Storage Marketing, Networking Business Unit, NVIDIA
NVMe-oF
Next-Gen NVMe-oF Reference System: From Media to Network
Duckho Bae, Principal Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Jungsoo Kim, Staff Engineer, Samsung Electronics
ORCHESTRATION
SODA - One Data Framework, Infinite Possibilities
Rakesh Jain, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Research, IBM
Anjaneya Chagam, Cloud Architect, Intel Corporation
ORCHESTRATION
Unified heterogeneous storage monitoring : Is delfin a way forward?
Najmudheen CT, Architect Huawei, Maintainer SODA Foundation, Huawei Technologies India Pvt Ltd
Masanori Itoh, Principal Researcher, Toyota Motors / TSC Member SODA foundation, Toyota
ORCHESTRATION
Predictive analysis of storage health and performance for heterogeneous environment
Najmudheen CT, Architect Huawei, Maintainer SODA Foundation, Huawei Technologies India Pvt Ltd
Xulin, Architect Huawei, Maintainer, SODA Foundation
ORCHESTRATION
Resilient Workflow Automation in a Hybrid Cloud environment
Ashit Kumar, Architect, SODA Foundation/Huawei
Joseph Vazhappilly, Senior System Architect, SODA Foundation/Huawei
ORCHESTRATION
Autonomous Data Management at Edge: Challenges and possibilities.
Sanil Kumar D, Chief Architect, TOC, Head SODA India, SODA Foundation / Huawei, Huawei Technologies India Pvt Ltd
Vinod Eswaraprasad, Chief Architect, Global Head of Cloud & Platform Practice, Wipro
PERSISTENT MEMORY
Mortimer: A high performance scale out storage for persistent memory and NVMe SSDs
Anjaneya Chagam, Cloud Architect, Intel Corporation
PERSISTENT MEMORY
Persistent Memory + Enterprise-Class Data Services = Big Memory
Charles Fan, CEO and co-founder, MemVerge
PERSISTENT MEMORY
Update on the JEDEC DDR5 NVRAM Specification
Bill Gervasi, Principal Systems Architect, Nantero
PERSISTENT MEMORY
Challenges and Opportunities as Persistence Moves Up the Memory/Storage Hierarchy
Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis
Thomas Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates
PERSISTENT MEMORY
Exploring New Storage Paradigms and Opportunities with Persistent Memory Technology
Daniel Waddington, Principal Research Staff Member, IBM
PERSISTENT MEMORY
How can persistent memory make database faster, and how could we go ahead?
Takashi Menjo, Researcher, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
PERSISTENT MEMORY
RPMP: A Remote Persistent Memory Pool to accelerate data analytics and AI
Jian Zhang, Software Engineer Manager, Intel Corporation
PERSISTENT MEMORY
Accelerate Big Data Workloads with HDFS Persistent Memory Cache
Feilong He, Machine Learning Engineer, Intel Corporation
Jian Zhang, Software Engineer Manager, Intel Corporation
PERSISTENT MEMORY
Persistent Memory Programming Without All That Cache Flushing
Andy Rudoff, Persistent Memory SW Architect, Intel
PERSISTENT MEMORY
Scaling PostgreSQL with Persistent Memory.
Naresh Kumar Inna, Co-founder and CEO, Memhive
Keshav Prasad, Co-founder and CTO, Memhive
PERSISTENT MEMORY
SplitFS: Reducing Software Overhead in File Systems for Persistent Memory
Vijay Chidambaram, Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin
SMB
SMB3 over QUIC - Files Without the VPN
Sudheer Dantuluri, Software Engineer, Microsoft
Thomas Salemy, Software Engineer, Microsoft
SMB
SMB3 POSIX Extensions Phase 2 ... Now that they are in what is next?
Steven French, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
SMB
The Future of Accessing Files remotely from Linux: SMB3.1.1 client status update
Steven French, Principal Software Engineer, Microsoft
SMB
Microsoft FileServer Protocol Test Suites Overview and Updates
Helen Lu, Senior Software Engineering Manager, Microsoft
Huiren Jiang, Software Engineer, Microsoft
SMB
Rafal Szczesniak, Principal Software Engineer, Dell EMC
Jeremy Hitt, Principal Software Engineer, Dell EMC
SOLID STATE STORAGE SOLUTIONS
An SSD for Automotive Applications
Bill Gervasi, Principal Systems Architect, Nantero
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Brian Eccles, Principal Analyst, IBM
Mark Lantz, Principal Research Staff Member, IBM Research
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Real World Experiences With High Availability Storage Systems
Jody Glider, Principal Storage Architect, Cloud Architecture and Engineering, SAP
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Using Block Translation and Atomic Updates to Optimize All Flash Array Storage
Douglas Dumitru, CTO, EasyCo LLC
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Smart Storage Adapter for Composable Architectures
Remy Gauguey, Sr Software Architect - Data Center Business Unit, Kalray
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Accelerate artificial intelligence IoT use cases with storage tiering and shared storage at the edge
Joey Parnell, Sr Architect, NetApp
Mahmoud Jibbe, Technical Director, NetApp
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
HDD Multi-channel Deployment Scenarios in Linux Environments
Arie van der Hoeven, Principal Product Manager, Seagate Technology
Curtis Stevens, Technologist, Seagate Technology
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Breaking the Ten Millions IOps barrier for RAID.
Sergei Platonov, VP of Strategy, RAIDIX
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Tiered Storage Deployments with 24G SAS
Jeremiah Tussey, Board of Directors, STA; Alliances Manager, Microchip
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Is Gaming changing the Storage Architecture Landscape?
Leah Schoeb , Sr Developer Relations Manager, AMD
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Boris Tankhilevich, CEO, Magtera, Inc.
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
A NVMe-oF Storage Diode for classified data storage
Jean-Baptiste Riaux, Senior Field Application Engineer, Kalray
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Rethinking Distributed Storage System Architecture for Fast Storage Devices
Myoungwon Oh, Rethinking Distributed Storage System Architecture for Fast Storage Devices, Samsung Electronics
STORAGE ARCHITECTURE
Unlocking the New Performance and QoS Capabilities of the Software Enabled Flash™ API
Rory Bolt, Principal Architect, Senior Fellow, KIOXIA America
STORAGE NETWORKING
Smart Fabrics: Building Self-Healing Fibre Channel Networks
Brandon Hoff, Director, Product Management, Fibre Channel Industry Association, Broadcom Inc.
Rupin Mohan, Director R&D, CTO SAN, HPE
STORAGE NETWORKING
Understanding Compute Express Link: A Cache-coherent Interconnect
Debendra Das Sharma, Intel Fellow; Director of I/O Technology and Standards Group, Intel
STORAGE NETWORKING
Use cases for NVMe-oF for Deep Learning Workloads and HCI Pooling
Nishant Lodha, Director of Technologies, Marvell
STORAGE NETWORKING
CXL 1.1 Protocol Extensions: Review of the cache and memory protocols in CXL.
Robert Blankenship, Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
Realistic Synthetic Data at scale: Influenced by, but not production data
Mehul Sheth, Principal Performance Engineer, Veritas Technologies LL
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
Capture, Monitor and Analysis of Real World Edge workloads for server and application optimization
Eden Kim, CEO, Calypso Systems, Inc.
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
Platform Performance Analysis for I/O-intensive Applications
Ilia Kurakin, Senior Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
Perry Taylor, Senior Performance Monitoring Engineer, Intel Corporation
Alexander Antonov, Senior Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
Denis Pravdin, Senior Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
STORAGE PERFORMANCE / WORKLOADS
Array Level Steady State Detection for ZFS Storage Servers
Ryan McKenzie, Senior Platform and Performance Engineer, iXsystems
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
SNIA Swordfish™ Overview and Deep Dive
Richelle Ahlvers, Board of Directors, SNIA
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Richelle Ahlvers, Board of Directors, SNIA
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
How to Increase Demand for Your Products with the Swordfish Conformance Test Program
Richelle Ahlvers, Board of Directors, SNIA
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
NVMe and NVMe-oF Configuration and Manageability with Swordfish and Redfish
Rajalaxmi Angadi, Senior Software Developer, Intel Corporation
Krishnakumar Gowravaram, Senior Technical Leader and Architect, Cisco
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Zero to Swordfish Implementation Using Open Source Tools
Don Deel, SMI GB Chair, SNIA; Senior Standards Technologist, NetApp, SNIA; NetApp
Chris Lionetti, Board of Directors, SNIA; Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, HPE
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Migrating OEM Extensions to Swordfish for Scalable Storage Management
Krishnakumar Gowravaram, Senior Technical Leader and Architect, Cisco
STORAGE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Jeff Hilland , President, DMTF; Distinguished Technologist at HPE, DMTF; HPE
Scott Bunker, Server Storage Technologist, HPE
ZONED STORAGE
Zoned Namespaces (ZNS) SSDs: Disrupting the Storage Industry
Matias Bjørling, Director, Emerging System Architectures, Western Digital Corporation
ZONED STORAGE
Reviving The QEMU NVMe Device (from Zero to ZNS)
Klaus Jensen, Staff Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics
ZONED STORAGE
Zoned Block Device Support in Hadoop HDFS
Shin'ichiro Kawasaki, Principal Engineer, Western Digital Corporation
ZONED STORAGE
zonefs: Mapping POSIX File System Interface to Raw Zoned Block Device Accesses
Damien Le Moal, Director, Western Digital Corporation
ZONED STORAGE
High-perforance SMR drives with dm-zoned caching
Hannes Reinecke, Kernel Storage Architect, SUSE Software Solutions
ZONED STORAGE
Improve Distributed Storage System TCO with Host-Managed SMR HDDs
Albert Chen, Founder, KALISTA IO
ZONED STORAGE
ZNS: Enabling in-place updates and transparent high queue-depths
Javier Gonzalez, Principal Software Engineer, Samsung Electronics
Kanchan Joshi, Staff Engineer, Samsung Electronics
ZONED STORAGE
xNVMe: Programming Emerging Storage Interfaces for Productivity and Performance
Simon Lund, Staff Engineer, Samsung
ZONED STORAGE
File System Native Support of Zoned Block Devices: Regular vs Append writes
Naohiro Aota, Staff engineer, Western Digital
ZONED STORAGE
Getting Started with NVMe ZNS on QEMU
Dmitry Fomichev, R&D Technologist Western Digital Corporation
ZONED STORAGE
ZenFS, Zones and RocksDB - Who likes to take out the garbage anyway?
Hans Holmberg, Technologist, Western Digital Corporation
ZONED STORAGE
End To End Data Placement For Zoned Block Devices
Marc Acosta, Research Fellow, Western Digital Corporation
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