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Greetings SDC Attendees,

On behalf of SNIA’s Technical Council, Board of Directors, and Staff, welcome to the 2016 Storage Developer Conference (SDC). SNIA has been producing SDC since 1998, and this year we are again proud to offer a conference program that will inform you on the latest technologies and provide you important opportunities for networking with your industry peers and leaders.

Our general sessions kick off with Dan Masklowski of Citi Storage/Engineered Systems, who will present “Cloud Architecture in the and the Impact on the Storage Ecosystem: A Journey Down the Software Defined Storage Rabbit Hole.” Other featured speakers include Mark Carlson, Toshiba; Jeff Bonwick, DSSD; Edward Grochowski; Peter Goglia, VeriTekk Solutions; Gary Grider, LANL; Richelle Ahlvers, Broadcom; Stephen Bates, Microsemi; Carol Wilder, Intel; and Niels Reimers, Intel.

We extend our thanks to each of the SDC agenda speakers and the companies they represent for dedicating their expertise and time.

In addition to multiple technical session tracks, we are offering evening Birds of a Feather sessions, as well as the SNIA SMB3 Plugfest, the Cloud Interoperability Plugfest, and new this year, the Kinetic Storage Solutions Plugfest. We encourage you to explore all facets of SDC and expect that you will find the entire experience to be valuable and edifying.

Please remember to visit the Sponsor Showcase which is located along the second floor Mezzanine. You won’t want to miss the opportunity to meet with SDC sponsors and several of our association and media partners. While speaking with them, please acknowledge their support of our event.

Finally, please take a moment to complete the SDC evaluation surveys which will be e-mailed to you at the end of each day. We take your input very seriously and rely on it as we plan for next year’s SDC. SNIA leaders will be available throughout the event to talk with you about the SNIA membership experience (or opportunity if not yet a member), the SNIA ROI on technical standards work, and ideas to make SNIA even more relevant in 2017.

Thank you for joining us. Have an enjoyable and productive conference!

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David Dale Mark Carlson Michael Oros Chairman, Chairman, Executive Director, SNIA Board of Directors SNIA Technical Council SNIA 1 general information

CONFERENCE APP Download the SDC App to access the GUIDE CONTENTS agenda, speaker information, session abstracts, and to keep up to date on any General Information...... 2 last minute agenda changes. Schedule At-A-Glance...... 3 Scan the QR code below to get details General Sessions...... 4 about downloading the app or go to Pre-Conference Primer Sessions...... 5 www.snia.org/app. Agenda...... 6-11 Birds of a Feather Meetings...... 12 Plugfest Information...... 13 Sponsor Information...... 14-17

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Pre-Conference Primer Sessions - Sunday, September 18, 2016 Registration Open ...... 11:00 am - 2:00 pm Sessions ...... 1:00 pm - 5:00pm

Monday, September 19, 2016 Registration Opens ...... 7:30 am Continental Breakfast...... 7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakout Sessions ...... 8:30 am - 5:25 pm Lunch and Networking...... 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Plugfest Open House and Reception...... 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm Birds of a Feather Meetings...... 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 Registration Opens ...... 7:30 am Continental Breakfast...... 7:30 am - 8:45 am Kinetic Storage Solutions Plugfest...... 8:45 am - 12:00 pm Welcome Remarks...... 8:45 am - 9:00 am General Sessions...... 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Lunch and Sponsor Showcase ...... 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Breakout Sessions...... 1:00 pm - 4:55 pm Networking Reception and Sponsor Showcase...... 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Birds of a Feather Meetings...... 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Wednesday, September 21, 2016 Registration Opens ...... 7:30 am Continental Breakfast...... 7:30 am - 8:45 am Introduction to Day...... 8:45 am - 9:00 am General Sessions...... Hyatt Regency Santa Clara 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Lunch and Sponsor Showcase...... 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Breakout Sessions...... 1:00 pm - 5:55 pm Birds of a Feather Meetings...... 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Thursday, September 22, 2016 Registration Opens ...... 7:30 am Continental Breakfast...... 7:30 am - 8:30 am Breakout Sessions...... 8:30 am - 12:25 pm Sessions ConcludeSECOND...... LEVEL ...... 12:25 pm SNIA SMB3 & Cloud Interoperability Plugfests Conclude...... 1:00 pm

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All General Sessions take place in the Santa Clara Ballroom.

TUESDAY SPEAKERS

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM Cloud Architecture in the Data Center and the Impact on the Storage Ecosystem: A Journey Down the Software Defined Storage Rabbit Hole Dan Maslowski, Global Engineering Head, Citi Storage/Engineered Systems, Citigroup

9:45 AM - 10:25 AM Hyperscaler Storage Mark Carlson, Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba

10:40 AM - 11:20 AM Scalable High Performance Flash Systems Jeff Bonwick, Co-founder and CTO, DSSD

11:20 AM - 12:00 PM The Magnetic Today’s Technical Status and Its Future Edward Grochowski, Consultant, Memory/Storage Peter Goglia, President, VeriTekk Solutions

WEDNESDAY SPEAKERS

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM MarFS: A Scalable Near-POSIX over Cloud Objects for HPC Cool Storage Gary Grider, HPC Div Director, LANL

9:45 AM - 10:25 AM Overview of Swordfish: Scalable Storage Management Richelle Ahlvers, Principal Storage Management Architect, Broadcom

10:40 AM - 11:20 AM Application Access to Persistent Memory – The State of the Nation(s)! Stephen Bates, Sr. Technical Director, Microsemi

11:20 AM - 12:00 PM Future of Datacenter Storage Carol Wilder, Strategic Planning / Memory & Storage Data Center Group, Intel Niels Reimers, Strategic Planning, Intel

Download presentations at www.storagedeveloper.org/presentations16 4 pre-conference primer sessions

The Pre-conference Primer Sessions are another feature of SDC 2016. These sessions are designed to give attendees an overview of important storage technologies.

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

11:00 - 2:00 Registration Opens Persistent Memory Networking Professional Development (Cypress) (Winchester) (San Tomas / Lawrence) (Stevens Creek) What You Need to Know on Cloud Storage How Agile is Game Changer in Persistent Memory Quick Start Storage Development and Best SAS: Today’s Fast and Flexible Programming Tutorial David Slik Practices to Transform from Storage Fabric Technical Director, Traditional Model to Agile Model 1:00 - 1:50 Andy Rudoff NetApp Cameron Brett Architect Datacenter Software, Saurabh Bhatia Director SSD Product Marketing, Intel Mark Carlson Storage Test Specialist, Toshiba America Electronic Principal Engineer, IBM Components’ SSD Business Unit Toshiba

Accelerating Storage with Open Storage Architecture Performance What You Need to Know on Source RDMA - Leveraging RDMA (San Tomas/Lawrence) (Stevens Creek) Cloud Storage (continued) for Higher Performance Storage David Slik Idan Burstein Technical Director, Data Center Workload Analysis 2:00 - 2:50 Architect, NetApp Mellanox Peter Murray Mark Carlson Principal System Engineer, Rob Davis Principal Engineer, Virtual Instruments VP Storage Technology, Toshiba Mellanox

2:50 - 3:05 Break Break (Mezzanine) Solid State Storage Security (Winchester) (Stevens Creek) Beyond the Cloud: The SNIA NVM Programming NVMe Virtualization Ideas for Space-based Data Storage Model Virtual Machines on Cloud Implementing Stored-Data Scott Sobhani 3:05 - 3:55 Encryption Doug Voigt Sangeeth Keeriyadath Co-founder & CEO, Distinguished Technologist, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Constellation Corporation Michael Willett Hewlett Packard Enterprise IBM SpaceBelt™, the Information VP Marketing, Ultra-Highway™ Drive Trust Alliance

SMB Storage Management (Winchester) (San Tomas/Lawrence)

Introduction and Overview of Redfish Object Drives: Simplifying the Storage Stack Cephalopods and Samba? Patrick Boyd 4:05- 4:55 Principal Systems Management Mark Carlson Ira Cooper Engineer, Principal Engineer, Principal Software Engineer, Dell Toshiba Red Hat Richelle Ahlvers Principal Storage Management Architect, Broadcom 5 monday agenda

7:30 Registration Opens (Mezzanine) 7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast (Mezzanine)

Cloud File Systems NVMe Over Fabrics Storage Management Hardware (Stevens Creek) (Winchester) (Cypress) (San Tomas / Lawrence) (Lafayette)

NVMe over Fabrics - High Performance Flash Introduction to Design of a WORM What Can One Billion Moves to Ethernet OpenStack Cinder Filesystem Hours of Spinning Hard The Curse of Areal Density Drives Tell Us? Rob Davis 8:30 - 9:20 Sean McGinnis Terry Stokes Ralph Weber VP Storage Technology, Sr. Principal Software Principal Software Engineer, Gleb Budman Consultant, Mellanox Engineer, EMC/Isilon CEO, ENDL Texas Dells Backblaze Idan Burstein Storage Architect, Mellanox MarFS: Near-POSIX NVMe Over Fabrics Access to Characterizing the Support in Managing Data by Cloud Access Control Object-Storage Evolution of Disk Objectives Delegation Attributes via Christoph Hellwig Jeff Inman Absorbing Markov Chains 9:30 - 10:20 Douglas Fallstrom David Slik Software Developer, Sagi Grimberg Senior Director of Product Technical Director, Los Alamos National Lab Rachel Traylor Co-founder, Principle Management, NetApp Research Scientist, Architect, Primary Data Gary Grider EMC LightBits Labs HPC Div Director, LANL 10:20 - 10:35 Break (Mezzanine) Persistent Memory Storage Networking (Cypress) (Lafayette)

Performance Implications of User-Space Implementation of iSCSI Data Integrity support for Extensions for RDMA In-memory Persistence: The Data Feedback Loop: USB Cloud Storage Silent Data (iSER) Using Libiscsi Opportunities and Using to Enhance Gateway Corruption in Gfarm File Challenges Data Storage System Roy Shterman 10:35- 11:25 David Disseldorp Software Engineer, Mellanox Dhruva Chakrabarti Shannon Loomis Engineer, Osamu Tatebe Research Engineer, Data Scientist, SUSE Linux Professor, Sagi Grimberg Hewlett Packard Labs Nimble Storage University of Tsukuba Co-founder, Principle Architect, LightBits Labs

Shlomo Greenberg, PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University Testing Service Oriented Cloud (Lafayette) Hyper-V Windows Server Storage Optimizing Every Enabling Remote Access 2016 Storage QoS and Uncovering Distributed Performance Analysis Operation in a to Persistent Memory on Protocol Updates Storage System Bugs in Write-optimized File System an IO Subsystem Using Testing (not in Production!) Da Qi Ren NVM Express and RDMA Matt Kurjanowicz 11:35 - 12:25 Staff Research Rob Johnson Senior Software Engineer Shaz Qadeer Engineer, Huawei Research Assistant Stephen Bates Lead, Microsoft Principal Researcher, Professor, Sr. Technical Director, Microsoft Dr. Masood Mortazavi Stony Brook University Microsemi Adam Burch Distinguished Software Engineer II, Cheng Huang Engineer, Huawei Microsoft Principle Researcher, Microsoft 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (Terra Courtyard) monday agenda

Cloud File Systems Persistent Memory Storage Management Data Preservation (Stevens Creek) (Winchester) (Cypress) (San Tomas / Lawrence) (Lafayette)

Hardware Based Time to Say Good Bye The Role of Active Archive Compression in Ceph There and Back Again, a Deploying and Optimizing to Storage Management in Long-Term Data OSD with BTRFS Practical Presentation on for Cloud Storage Systems with Unified Namespace, Preservation Using Persistent Memory using Swift Simulator Write Once and Reuse Weigang Li with Applications 1:30 - 2:20 Everywhere Paradigm Mark Pastor Software Engineer, Gen Xu Director of Archive and Intel Mat Young Performance Engineer, Anjaneya Chagam Technical Workflow VP of Marketing, Intel Principal Engineer, Solutions, Tushar Gohad Netlist Intel Quantum Senior Staff Engineer, Intel Security Cold Data Storage (San Tomas/Lawrence) (Lafayette) Challenges with Persistent Hyper Converged Cache Efficient Data Tiering in Memory in Distributed Introducing the View of Storage Infrastructure For GlusterFS Storage Systems On-demand Authentication SNIA Japan Cold Storage Cloud Infrastructure for Test and Technical Working Group 2:30 - 3:20 Rafi KC Dan Lambright Development on “Cold Storage” Chendi Xue Software Engineer, Principal Software Software Engineer, Red Hat India Engineer, Andrew Leonard Kazuhiko Kawamura Intel APAC R&D Red Hat Senior Software Engineer, Senior Manager - System EMC Isilon Engineering, Sony Corporation 3:20 - 3:35 Break (Mezzanine)

Object Storage Testing Data Preservation (Stevens Creek) Building on The NVM (San Tomas/Lawrence) (Lafayette) Programming Model – A Assuring Quality When Data Retention and Cutting the Cord: Multi-Chance Scalable ARC Windows Implementation Objects and Files Preservation: Why We Took the File (Adaptive Replacement Converge The IT Budget Killer is System Out of Out Storage Cache) Paul Luse Tamed 3:35- 4:25 Nodes Principal Engineer, Julian Cachua Fruchier Shailendra Tripathi Intel Storage Test Engineer, Shawn Brume Manish Motwani Architect, IBM Business Line Executive, Backend Storage Software Tegile Systems Chandra Kumar Konamki Data Retention Architect, Sr Software Engineer, Ariday Balderas Alba Infrastructure, IBM, Cleversafe, an IBM Company Microsoft Software Engineer, The LTO Program, IBM IBM Performance SMB Capacity Optimization (Winchester) (San Tomas/Lawrence) (Lafayette) Optimizing Workload Breaking Barriers: Making SMB3.1.1 and Beyond in New Fresh Open Source Performance in Adoption of Persistent the Linux Kernel: Smashing Bits: Virtualized Environment Memory Easier Providing Optimal File Comparing Data Access to Windows, Mac, Compression Techniques 4:35 -5:25 Jean-Francois Smigielski Gaurav Gupta Andy Rudoff Samba and Other File in Storage Co-founder and R&D Senior Consultant, Architect Datacenter Servers Manager, Tata Consultancy Services Software, Juan Deaton OpenIO Intel Steven French Research Engineer and Anurag Mehrotra Principal Systems Scientist, Assistant Consultant, Engineer: Protocols, AHA Tata Consultancy Services Samba Team/Primary Data 5:30 - 7:00 Plugfest Open House and Reception (Magnolia Room) 7:00 - 8:00 Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (see page 12 for details)

7 tuesday agenda

7:30 - 8:45 Registration Opens & Continental Breakfast (Mezzanine) Welcome Remarks (Santa Clara Ballroom) 8:45 - 9:00 David Dale, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors Cloud Architecture in the Data Center & the Impact on the Storage Ecosystem: A Journey Down the Software Defined Storage Rabbit Hole 9:00 - 9:45 Dan Maslowski, Global Engineering Head, Citi Storage/Engineered Systems, Citigroup Hyperscaler Storage 9:45 - 10:25 Mark Carlson, Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba 10:25 - 10:40 Break (Mezzanine) Scalable High Performance Flash Systems 10:40 - 11:20 Jeff Bonwick, Co-founder and CTO, DSSD The Magnetic Hard Disk Drive Today’s Technical Status and Its Future 11:20 - 12:00 Edward Grochowski, Consultant, Memory/Storage; Peter Goglia, President, VeriTekk Solutions 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch and Networking (Mezzanine) Object Storage Erasure Coding Persistent Memory SMB SMR (San Tomas / Lawrence) (Lafayette) (Cypress) (Winchester) (Stevens Creek)

Dynamic Object Routing The Shingled Magnetic Enterprise Storage RAS SMB3 and Linux - Recording (SMR) Modern Erasure Codes for Balaji Ganesan Augmented by Native Intel A Seamless File Sharing Revolution – Distributed Storage Systems Director Of Engineering, Platform Storage Extensions Protocol Data Management 1:00 - 1:50 Cloudian Techniques Examined Srinivasan Narayanamurthy Tanveer Alam Jeremy Allison Member Technical Staff, Bharat Boddu Sr. Platform Applications Engineer, Tom Coughlin NetApp Principal SW Engineer, Engineer, Intel Samba Team/Google President, Cloudian Coughlin Associates

Storage Solutions for Private Cloud, Object Storage Implementation on Private Cloud, MAS/ACS Fun with Linearity: RDMA Verbs Extensions for How Encryption and Erasure Persistency and Improving DCERPC Security ZBC/ZAC Support in Linux Ali Turkoglu Codes are Intimately Related Consistency 2:00 - 2:50 Principal Software Stefan Metzmacher Damien Le Moal Engineering Manager, Jason Resch Idan Burstein Developer, Sr. Manager, Microsoft Senior Software Architect, Storage Architect, SerNet/Samba Team Western Digital IBM Mellanox Mallikarjun Chadalapaka Principal Program Manager, Microsoft 2:50 - 3:05 Break (Mezzanine) Heterogeneous Architectures for Implementation of High- capacity Hyper-converged Next Generation Scale-Out Low Latency Remote SMB3 in Samba – ZDM: Using an STL for Storage Devices NAS Storage: A Full-stack View Multi-Channel and Beyond Zoned Media on Linux 3:05- 3:55 Michaela Blott Philippe Nicolas Tom Talpey Michael Adam Shaun Tancheff Principal Engineer, Advisor, Architect, Architect and Manager, Software Engineer, Xilinx/Research Rozo Systems Microsoft Red Hat AeonAzure LLC Endric Schubert PhD, CTO & Founder, MLE

RDMA Extensions for Object Storage Analytics : Accelerating Remote PMEM Clustered Samba Leveraging Cognitive Optimize Storage NVMe – Awakening a New Access - HW and SW Challenges and Computing For Deriving Efficiency & Performance Titan... Deployment, Considerations, Directions Insights And Relationships with Erasure Coding Ecosystem and Market Size Architecture, and 4:05 -4:55 Hardware Offload Programming Models Volker Lendecke Pushkar Thorat Shaun Walsh Developer, Software Engineer, Dror Goldenberg Managing Partner, Chet Douglas Samba Team/SerNet IBM VP of Software Architecture, G2M Research Principal SW Engineer, Intel Mellanox 5:00 - 7:00 Networking Reception and Sponsor Showcase (Mezzanine) 7:00 - 9:00 Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (see page 12 for details) wednesday agenda

7:30 - 8:45 Registration Opens & Continental Breakfast (Mezzanine) Introduction to the Day and Housekeeping Announcements (Santa Clara Ballroom) 8:45 - 9:00 Mark Carlson, SNIA Technical Council Chair MarFS: A Scalable Near-POSIX File System over Cloud Objects for HPC Cool Storage 9:00 - 9:45 Gary Grider, HPC Div Director, LANL Overview of Swordfish: Scalable Storage Management 9:45 - 10:25 Richelle Ahlvers, Principal Storage Management Architect, Broadcom 10:25 - 10:40 Break (Mezzanine) Application Access to Persistent Memory – The State of the Nation(s)! 10:40 - 11:20 Stephen Bates, Sr. Technical Director, Microsemi Future of Datacenter Storage 11:20 - 12:00 Carol Wilder, Strategic Planning / Memory & Storage Data Center Group, Intel; Niels Reimers, Strategic Planning, Intel 12:00 - 1:00 Lunch and Sponsor Showcase (Mezzanine) Performance Security Solid State Storage SMB Storage Management (San Tomas / Lawrence) (Winchester) (Cypress) (Stevens Creek) (Lafayette) Storage Security Evolution and Advancements in NVMe Interactions IOPS: Changing Needs Dr. Jorge Campello Swordfish Deep-dive: SMB Server: Director of System and The Coming of Ultra-low Scalable Storage Jim Handy Kernel versus User Space Software Technologies, Latency SSDs Management General Director, Learnings Western Digital Corporation; 1:00 - 1:50 Objective Analysis TCG Storage Work Group Tien Shiah Richelle Ahlvers Oleg Kravtsov Chair Product Marketing Manager, Principal Storage Thomas Coughlin Lead Developer, Samsung Management Architect, President, Tuxera Thomas Bowen Broadcom Coughlin Associates Storage Security Architect, Intel Corporation; Intel TCG Storage Workgroup Standards Representative Bridging the Gap Between Cold Storage NVMe SSD Performance and Accelerating OLTP (Lafayette) Scale Out Software Performance with NVMe SSDs When Will Self-Encrypting Anjaneya Chagam Sailing in Uncharted Waters. Drives Predominate? Principal Engineer, Veronica Lagrange A Story of Implementing Cold Storage: Intel Staff Engineer, Apple MacOS X Extensions Tom Coughlin The Road to Enterprise Samsung for SMB2 in EMC Isilon President,, 2:00 - 2:50 Swaroop Dutta OneFS Server Coughlin Associates Ilya Kuznetsov Director, Product Changho Choi Product Manager, Management, Storage and Principal Engineer, Rafal Szczesniak Walt Hubis YADRO Availability Business Unit, Samsung Principal Software Engineer, President, VMware EMC Hubis Consulting Vijay Balakrishnan Murali Rajaopal Director, Storage Architect, Samsung VMware 2:50 - 3:05 Break (Mezzanine) Hyperscaler (Lafayette) Building a Highly Scalable Ceph Performance Active Directory Client An Examination of Storage and Performant SMB Standards for Improving Benchmarking with CBT Scaling Challenges Workloads Protocol Server SSD Performance and 3:05- 3:55 Endurance Logan Blyth Marc VanHeyningen Eden Kim Sunu Engineer Software Developer, Aquari, Principal Software Engineer, CEO, CTO, Bill Martin a division of Concurrent Isilon/EMC Calypso Testers Ryussi Technologies Principal Engineer Storage Standards, Samsung

9 wednesday agenda

Performance Security Solid State Storage SMB Hyperscaler (San Tomas / Lawrence) (Winchester) (Cypress) (Stevens Creek) (Lafayette) Analysis of SSD Health and Prediction of SSD Life SPDK - Building Blocks for Multi-vendor Key Open Storage Platform Samba and NFS Integration Scalable, High Performance Management – Delivers Hyper-scale Dr. M. K. Jibbe Storage Applications Does It Actually Work? Benefits for the Enterprise Technical Director, Steven French 4:05 - 4:55 NetApp Principal Systems Engineer Benjamin Walker Tim Hudson Eric Slack Protocols, Software Engineer, CTO, Sr. Analyst, Bernard Chan PrimaryData Corp Intel Corporation Cryptsoft Evaluator Group Member Technical Staff, NetApp

Storage Architecture Panel Discussion of SMB3 Introducing the EDA POSIX Protocol Extensions Workload for the SPEC (Winchester) Breaking Through Software-Defined Flash: SFS® Benchmark Performance and Scale Out Tradeoffs of FTL, Steven French Barriers - A Storage Solution Open-Channel, and An Enhanced I/O Model for Principal Systems Engineer Nick Principe for Today’s Hot Scale Out Cooperative Flash Modern Storage Devices Protocols, 5:05 - 5:55 Principal Software Engineer, Applications Management PrimaryData Corp/Samba EMC Martin Petersen Team Bob Hansen Craig Robertson Architect, Jignesh Bhadaliya V.P. Systems Architecture, Principal Software Architect, Oracle Jeremy Allison CTO for EDA, Apeiron Data Systems Radian Memory Systems Samba Team, EMC Google

6:00 - 7:00 Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (see page 12 for details)

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7:30 - 8:30 Registration Opens & Continental Breakfast and Networking (Mezzanine) Performance Storage Architecture /etc Storage Networking (Lafayette) (San Tomas) (Cypress) (Lawrence) Delivering Memory Performance iSER as Accelerator for with Shared Flash Software Defined Storage Reducing Replication Bandwidth Corporate/Open Source for Distributed Document-oriented Community Relationships: Gurmeet Goindi Rahul Fiske Databases The OpenZFS Example Technical Product Strategist, Engineer, 8:30 - 9:20 Oracle IBM Sudipta Sengupta Michael Dexter Principal Research Scientist, Senior Analyst, Kothanda Umamageswaran (Kodi) Subhojit Roy Microsoft iXsystems Vice President, Exadata Storage Software Engineer, Development, IBM India Oracle Persistent Memory Capacity Optimization (Cypress) (Lawrence) Persistent Memory Panel: PM RDMA – What’s the big deal? Performance Analysis of the Peer Your Cache is Overdue a Fusion File System (PFFS) Improving Copy-On-Write Revolution: MRCs for Cache Moderator: Doug Voigt Performance in Container Storage 9:30 - 10:20 Performance and Isolation Distinguished Technologist, Richard Levy Hewlett Packard Enterprise Driver CEO and President, Irfan Ahmad Peer Fusion Frank Zhao CTO, Panelists: Tom Talpey, Architect, Software Architect CTO Office, CloudPhysics Microsoft; Idan Burstein, Storage EMC Architect, Mellanox; Andy Rudoff, Architect Datacenter Software, Intel 10:20 - 10:35 Break Break (Mezzanine) Green (Lafayette)

Using SPEC SFS with the SNIA Emerald Program for EPA Energy Iometer for SMR Hard Disk Drives Unified Deduplication Star Data Center Storage Program Snapshotting Scale-out Storage Pitfalls and Solutions Muhammad Ahmad Louis Imershein 10:35 - 11:25 Vernon Miller Senior Staff Software VP Product, Senior Software Engineer, Alex Aizman Engineer, Permabit Technology IBM Chief Advisor and Founder, Seagate Technology Corporation Nexenta Systems Nick Principe Principal Software Engineer, EMC Accelerate Finger Printing in Data Environmental Conditions and Early Developer Experiences with Deduplication Disk Reliability in Free-cooled storhaug: High-Availability New Windows Nano Server as Datacenters Storage for Linux Embedded Enterprise Storage Xiaodong Liu Appliance Platform OS Storage software engineer, 11:35 - 12:25 Ioannis Manousakis Jose Rivera Intel Asia R&D PhD Candidate Software Engineer, Terry Spear Rutgers University, Department of Red Hat/Samba Team President & CTO, Qihua Dai Computer Science IOLogix Engineering Manager, Intel Asia R&D 12:25 Sessions Conclude

SAVE THE DATE: SDC 2017 SNIA will host its annual Storage Developer Conference at this same venue next year on September 11-14, 2017. Plan to attend and watch for the Call for Presentations to open in February 2017. 11 birds-of-a-feather meetings

SDC is pleased to offer a variety of Birds of a Feather meetings (BOFs). These meetings will take place in the evening after the breakout sessions. You do not need to be registered for SDC to attend these special meetings. MONDAY MEETINGS Kinetic Drives and IP Drive Management Monday, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM • Stevens Creek Room Come to this BoF to hear experts from the Linux Foundation Kinetic Open Storage Project (KOSP) and the members of the SNIA Object Drive TWG discuss the latest advancements in this space. We will highlight what to expect at the Tuesday Kinetic Plugfest and discuss the latest SNIA specification.

The Future of Ethernet Connected Flash Systems Monday, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM • Winchester Room The SNIA ESF BoF will focus on the popular subject of Ethernet connected storage, and the even more popular topic of flash. After a brief introduction on the ESF and the benefits of membership to your company, we’d like you to stay with us for an informal roundtable discussion on “The Future of Ethernet Connected Flash Systems”.

Open Source Storage Networking Monday, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM • Cypress Room At this BoF session, we will discuss how open source is enabling new storage and datacenter architectures. All are welcome who have an interest in open source, scale-up and scale-out storage, hyperconvergence and exploring open solutions for the datacenter.

TUESDAY MEETINGS Hyperscaler and Datacenter Storage Update Tuesday, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM • Cypress Room The storage industry is changing due to Hyperscaler (Amazon, Google, Facebook, ) purchases of storage devices in customer designed storage enclosures and Software Defined Storage (SDS). When using and managing these devices at scale, a number of requirements are arising for these drive manufacturers to implement and then standardize. This BoF will discuss some upcoming features currently going through the standards process as well as the need to meet other requirements from datacenter customers.

Missing in Action: No Bursts in Current Vendor Synthetic Workload Tests - Why They Are Critical to Storage Array Evaluation Tuesday, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM • Stevens Creek Room This BoF will be a presentation and discussion of a white paper that uses information gleaned from hundreds of customers to prove that bursts are present. Load DynamiX PoC testing has shown that while vendor tests using other synthetic tools are accurate, performance degrades with some arrays when bursts are introduced. In one instance, sub-second bursts changed response time performance of a workload from 1.2ms to 80ms.

Long Term Data Preservation and the SIRF Container Format Tuesday, 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM • Winchester Room At this BoF, we will present advantages and challenges in long term retention of digital data. We will also discuss recent work on the Self Contained Information Retention Format (SIRF) and the OpenSIRF project, which were developed to enable future applications to interpret stored data regardless of the application that originally produced it. WEDNESDAY MEETINGS Using Interoperable Cloud Encryption to Secure Healthcare Records Wednesday, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM • Cypress Room For the data protection needs of sharing health data across different cloud services, this BOF will explore the capabilities of the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) in addressing the requirements, and show implementations of CDMI extensions for a health care profile. This BOF will demonstrate the results of testing at the SDC Cloud Plugfest for Encrypted Objects and Delegated Access Control extensions to CDMI 1.1.1.

Improving the Interoperability and Resiliency of Data Replication Wednesday, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM • Winchester Room Join the DPCO Special Interest Group in a discussion on the subject of data replication for disaster recovery. Customers are telling us there are interoperability and resiliency issues that the industry should address. What’s your experience?

What Are Real World Storage Workloads and Why Do I Care? Wednesday, 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM • Stevens Creek Room Join the Solid State Storage Initiative for an interactive discussion of real world storage workloads and how different workloads affect storage and SSD performance. Attendees can share what they are seeing in their environments and what methods they are using to analyze key metrics. They can also see a sample workload from an outlet retail store’s web portal and discuss how their SSDs compare and contrast in performance and endurance.

12 Full BoF descriptions are online at www.storagedeveloper.org or on the SDC mobile app. plugfests

The SNIA SMB3 and the Cloud Interoperability Plugfests are only open to registered participants, except during the Open House on Monday evening.

SNIA SMB3 PLUGFEST Sunday 8:30 AM - Thursday 1:00 PM • Magnolia Room • Underwritten by in partnership with

The purpose of this Plugfest is for vendors to bring their implementations of SMB3 to test, identify, and fix bugs in a collaborative setting with the goal of providing a forum in which companies can develop interoperable products. The participants of the Plugfest work together to define the testing process, assuring that objectives are accomplished.

2016 SNIA SMB3 Plugfest Participants (As of 9/12/16)

SerNet

Visuality Systems

CLOUD INTEROPERABILITY PLUGFEST Monday, 8:00 AM - Thursday 1:00 PM • Central Room • Underwritten by

Cloud Plugfests are work-oriented gatherings of developers and participants in standards organization projects and framework project developers designed to promote interchange of methods, tools and techniques that are defined by the plugfest participants as being suitable to test features such as portability, interoperability, ease of use, self-consistency and security when used in a cloud setting.

Participants at the Cloud Interoperability Plugfest will test the interoperability of well adopted cloud storage interfaces. We always have a large showing of CDMI implementations at this event, but are also looking for implementations of S3 and Swift (and Cinder/Manila) interfaces.

KINETIC STORAGE SOLUTIONS PLUGFEST Tuesday, 8:45 AM - 12:00 PM • Sonoma Room • Underwritten by Open house: 8:45 AM -10:40 AM Demonstrations and discussion: 10:40 AM to 12:00 PM

Explore innovative storage solutions incorporating Kinetic platform storage devices, as well as developers’ experience and reasoning for making their software compatible with Kinetic devices.

The Kinetic Open Storage Project, an open source project hosted by The Linux Foundation, invites storage solution developers, analysts and consumers interested in learning about the latest developments in Ethernet-connected storage with scale-out potential to attend this plugfest. They will explore innovative storage solutions incorporating Kinetic platform storage devices and gain insight into why and how some developers are making their software compatible with Kinetic devices. 13 sponsor descriptions

PLATINUM LEVEL

Intel expands the boundaries of technology to make the most amazing experiences possible. Information about Intel and the work of its more than 100,000 employees can be found at newsroom.intel.com and intel.com.

GOLD LEVEL

For almost three decades, AHA has been the global leader in Lossless Data Compression and Forward Error Correction and now supports full digital modem advanced hardware accelerators solutions and crypto acceleration technologies. Based in Moscow, Idaho, the design center develops and markets ICs, PCBs, and IP Cores for commercial and government customers worldwide. AHA products are used in Network Transmission, WAN Optimization, Enterprise Storage, Satellite, and Terrestrial Communications, and a wide variety of other systems where data throughput and integrity are vital. A recognized technology innovator, AHA has a reputation for exceptional product quality, reliability, outstanding customer support and is an AS9100 certified manufacturer. AHA Products Group is a part of Comtech EF Data Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL). For more information, please visit www.aha.com.

Radian Memory Systems is enabling Software-Defined management of Flash memory ® Radian storage. Our technology overcomes the inefficiencies of legacy Flash abstractions, MEMORY SYSTEMS unlocking the native potential of Flash memory while providing systems with the functionality required of data center class devices.

RMS-250 Our 2TBtechnology Flash SSDand products target system OEMs, cloud and service providers, and licensing to device-based 2GBmanufacturers Host Controlled to support NVRAM primary storage requirements throughout the data center. User applications range from

the latest webscale and big dataHost frameworks issued to virtual machines and transaction processing. Product sales are handled directly and in partnershipMove Command with industry leading distributors. www.radianmemory.com Direct Host Direct Host Host Controlled NVRAM access to NVRAM access to Flash • Host controls what data is stored in NVRAM • Host determines what, when and where data should The LTO Program, formed by technology provider companies HPE, IBM and Quantum, be transferred to/from NVRAM develops a powerful, scalable, adaptable open tape format created to address data • Host can issue single delegated move command, protection2GB and 2TBarchive in the midrange to enterprise-class server environments. The transferring data between SSD’s NVRAM and Flash NVRAM Flash without copying data back into systemLTO memory Ultrium format offers users competitive sources of products, an eight generation roadmap, and state-of- the-art features including data encryption, WORM support, high capacity -- up to 15 TB per cartridge -- blazing RMS-250 performance at up to 750MB/secondSSD (LTO-7 tape at 2.5:1 compressed) and partitioning. The LTO technology with the innovative Linear Tape File System makes tape easier to use than ever before. With low energy consumption, tape technology can also provide organizations with a green alternative for the data center, delivering substantial Supporting the Symphonic Cooperative Flash TCO benefits,Management energy savings (CFM) firmware, and ease the RMS-250of use iswith a 2TB LTFS. Learn more at http://www.lto.org/ eMLC SSD that uniquely provides up to 2GB of host controlled local NVRAM. NVRAM YADRO offers server and storage products focused on enterprise workloads, primarily deep With a hybrid of NVRAM and Flash, the RMS-250 provides hostlearning, systems with in-memory direct access computing, and control hyper scale datacenter and large volume storage. YADRO over the up todevelops 2GB of local high NVRAM. density The architecture low-latency disaggregated compute/memory fabrics and hybrid enables the hoststorage to determine systems what utilizing data should state be of the art memory technologies for ultra scalable in-memory held in NVRAM, when it should be overwritten, or transferred toinstallations. Flash. Similarly, For the hostfurther can controlinformation visit www.yadro.com and follow @yadro_company. 2.5”14 NVMe x4 what data should be transferred from Flash into NVRAM. NVRAM/Flash SSD These operations are highly efficient as a single delegated move command from the host will transfer Supports: data between the RMS-250’s NVRAM and Flash without • Symphonic™ Cooperative copying data over the system bus, through the software Flash Management firmware stack, and into system memory. This approach reduces • Up to 2GB host controlled NVRAM overhead from data copying and provides the host a • Up to 2TB eMLC Flash new design space for system-level optimizations. • Over 300K IOPS in 66% Read/33% Write mix With exceptional, consistent performance for small • 2.5” Form Factor with SFF-8639 connector random writes and unlimited write endurance, host controlled NVRAM can minimize the updates to Flash, • NVMe PCIe x4 Gen3 interface improving Flash wear out and minimizing latency spikes. • DiaLog™ OEM Diagnostic Lifecycle Monitoring The NVRAM is visible as a standard block device • Fault Tolerant Flush-to-Flash™ Backup System that supports DMA operations. It can be utilized as a ™ • DuraLife Ultra-Capacitor Power write-cache, write-ahead log, for intent logs, metadata, Management System journaling, or for any operations requiring frequent access to low latency persistent storage. sponsor descriptions

SILVER LEVEL

Celestica is a global supply chain services company, delivering the highest quality for their customers’ most demanding products. Celestica’s hardware solutions in storage, server/converged and network switching deliver faster time-to-market, reduced development costs and IP protection for our customers. We are committed to continuing our investments in leading-edge product roadmaps and design capabilities aligned with emerging technologies. Celestica leverages over 20-years of experience to provide Enterprise-Class Quality, Flexibility, and Delivery with a Cloud Economic Model

Chelsio is a recognized leader in high performance (10Gb/25Gb/40Gb/50Gb/100Gb) Ethernet adapters for networking and storage within virtualized enterprise data centers, Public and Private Hyperscale clouds, and cluster computing environments. With a clear emphasis on performance and delivering the only robust offload solution, as opposed to simple speeds and feeds, Chelsio has set itself apart from the competition. With its proven Terminator ASIC technology designed in more than 100 OEM platforms and the successful deployment of more than 100,000 ports, Chelsio has enabled unified wire solutions for LAN, SAN and cluster traffic.

Based in Sweden, Compuverde is an established provider of software-defined storage solutions. Founded in 2008 by a team of storage and software experts with decades of experience in the scale-out storage field, Compuverde delivers a unified storage solution suitable for both bare-metal and hyper-converged environments

Enova Technology offers X-Wall MX+ SATA eDrive controller capable of automatically transforming any standard SATA HDD/SSD into FDE/SED, Opal 2.0 or eDrive while providing in-line 6Gbps AES 256-bit cryptographic performance. Enova’s security solution simplifies your storage tiers of drives from various vendors and offers same data point for fast access.

MemoScale is a company specializing in developing high performance libraries for data storage systems. The MemoScale libraries for erasure coding are highly optimized and deliver extreme levels of encoding and decoding performance. The libraries support multiple proprietary erasure codes which can be employed to boost performance in various storage configurations.

The Nimble Storage family is growing, we hope you will be a part of our winning team! Join us to work with the industry’s most talented professionals in an environment that’s fast-paced, intellectually stimulating, and fun. Love what you do. Love where you’re doing it. 15 sponsor descriptions

SILVER LEVEL

SerNet is the leading service provider for the Open Source software SAMBA and offers support for vendors, system integrators and consulting companies for more SerNet than 20 years. SerNet also hosts “samba eXPerience” - the international SAMBA conference every May since 2002, where the team meets with users and customers to share knowledge about current developments and future plans: Refer to http://sambaXP.org - http://samba.plus - http://sernet.de

The Storage Management Initiative (SMI) unifies the storage industry to develop and standardize interoperable storage management technologies, such as the proven Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) and the emerging Swordfish specification. SMI programs include SMI-Lab, which provides an environment and ecosystem that supports the implementation of storage products based upon SMI-supported standards, and SMI-S CTP, which manages and develops test suites that ensure conformance to the SMI-S specification.

Virtual Instruments is the leader in infrastructure performance analytics and provides comprehensive infrastructure instrumentation and workload analytics for enterprise data centers. The company’s solutions give IT teams deep workload visibility and actionable insights into their end-to-end systems across cloud, virtual and physical environments. Virtual Instruments empowers companies to more easily evaluate and transition to new storage architectures and maximize the performance, availability and utilization of their production IT infrastructure. Recently merged with Load DynamiX, Virtual Instruments has nearly 500 customers, including enterprise IT, cloud service providers and storage vendors. The privately held company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. For more information, visit http://www.virtualinstruments.com.

Visuality Systems Ltd. is the world leader in provisioning of commercial SMB/ CIFS based solutions. Since its establishment in 1998 this Israeli-based company is fully dedicated for providing up-to-date SMB solutions for Storage platforms, Embedded devices and Mobile applications.

NQ™ Storage is a scaleable SMB stack which is suitable for a wide range of storage products from a standalone NAS to a high-end Data Center solution.

NQE™ is an SMB/CIFS server/client solution developed for non-Windows embedded systems to provide interoperability with Windows-based machines.

VMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, helps customers accelerate their digital transformation. VMware enables enterprises to master a software-defined approach to business and IT with its Cross-Cloud Architecture™ and solutions for the data center, mobility, and security. With 2015 revenues of $6.6 16 billion, VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and has over 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners worldwide. sponsor descriptions

SNIA SMB3 PLUGFEST UNDERWRITERS

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solu- tions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

NetApp creates innovative storage and data management solutions that deliver outstanding cost efficiency and accelerate business breakthroughs. Our dedica- tion to the principles of simplicity, innovation, and customer success has made us one of the fastest-growing storage and data management providers today. Customers around the world choose us for our “go beyond” approach and broad portfolio of solutions for business applications, storage for virtual servers, disk-to-disk backup, and more. Our solutions and virtualized storage technologies can provide nonstop availability of critical business data and speed product development, so you can deploy new capabilities with confidence and get to revenue faster than ever before. You can rely on our industry-leading solutions to lower the cost of protecting your data, business, and reputation.

CLOUD INTEROPERABILITY PLUGFEST UNDERWRITER

The SNIA Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) is committed to the adoption, growth and standardization of cloud storage and related cloud data services to promote interoperability and portability of data stored in the cloud. Activities including providing external advocacy in support of the SNIA Cloud Storage Technical Work Group (TWG), interoperability Plugfests, and standards conformance testing.

KINETIC STORAGE SOLUTIONS PLUGFEST UNDERWRITER

The Kinetic Open Storage Project, a Linux Foundation project, is dedicated to creating an open standard around Ethernet-enabled, key/value kinetic devices. The architecture is inspired by the scale-out data center in which Ethernet and Linux are ubiquitous, open source software reduces barriers to entry, and hardware is becoming commoditized.

For information regarding 2017 sponsorship opportunities, contact Lisa Mercurio, Membership Services Manager, at 781.293.9860 or email [email protected] or Marty Foltyn, SNIA Business Development Representative, at 858-720-9780 or email [email protected].

17 Faster storage. Better InsIght.

Intel® Solid State Drive Data Center P3520 Series

Transform the economics of your storage with trusted, breakthrough 3D NAND PCIe SSDs.

• Built on 30 years of flash cell scaling experience • More than 70X higher IOPS per dollar when compared to a 10K RPM Hard Disk Drive1 • Brings 4.7X random reads vs. SATA for read-intensive scale-out storage2

Visit www.intel.com/ssd to discover more.

1) Source – Intel. Performance data based on IOMeter* 2014 Configuration: Results based on Intel® DC P3520 450GB versus Seagate* Savvio* 10K SAS ST300MM006 Hard Drive. Seagate* Savvio*: 128K Sequential Write QD32 – 125 Mbps; 128K Sequential Read QD32 – 124 Mbps; 4K Random Write QD32 – 323 IOPs; 4K

Random Read QD32 – 410 IOPs. DC P3520: 64K Sequential Write QD128 – 622.2 Mbps; 64K Sequential Read QD32 – 1271.4 Mbps; 4K Random Write QD128 – 21541 IOPs; 4K Random Read QD128 – 147365 IOPs. ® 2) Source - Intel. Results have been estimated or simulated using internal Intel analysis or architecture simulation or modeling, and provided to you for informational purposes. Comparing 2TB Intel® SSD DC P3520 with 1.6TB Intel® SSD DC S3520. Any differences in your system hardware, software or configuration may affect your actual performance. Copyright © 2016 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel, the Intel SSD Inside logo, and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others.