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June 10, 2013

Greetings SPDEcon Attendees,

On behalf of SNIA’s Board of Directors, Technical Council and Staff, welcome to SNIA’s inaugural storage industry event, the 2013 Storage Plumbing and Data Engineering Conference (SPDEcon). Specifically differentiated from both SNW and our Storage Developer Conference (SDC), SPDEcon is targeted for the “hardcore” storage and data engineering experts as well as those who cover this industry sector. As we say, it is a conference, “...by experts for experts and those who want to be...!”

SPDEcon has been planned to offer you a rich agenda featuring general session speakers on Monday and Tuesday mornings, and five tracks of sessions each day through Wednesday afternoon that include many SNIA tutorials, which are peer reviewed to ensure vendor neutrality.

We take this opportunity to THANK YOU and your companies for the time you are committing to spend with us this week. We say thanks to our sponsors for helping to underwrite the expense of producing and offering this conference. Please visit their tables and introduce yourselves.

We acknowledge and thank our Technical Council who along with the original “concept conceiver and supporter” of this program, SW Worth of the SNIA Board of Directors, did yeoman’s work in putting the Agenda together.

Finally, special thanks to the many industry-recognized subject matter experts, analysts and others for sharing their valuable experience and insights with us as speakers. Please take a moment to complete the SPDEcon 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 event.

Enjoy the Conference!

Wayne M. AdamsChairman,SNIA Board of Directors

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Don DeelChairman,SNIA Technical Council

Leo E. LegerExecutive Director,SNIA

Storage Plumbing(San tomas)

Solid State(Stevens Creek)

file Storage(lafayette)

Cloud Storage(Winchester)

Data Engineering(lawrence)

1:00 - 1:50

PCie-based Storage technology architectural Design Considerations

David DemingCCO,

Solution Technology

the State of Solid State Storage

Jim HandyDirector,

Objective Analysis

Thomas CoughlinPresident,

Coughlin Associate

Smb remote file Protocol (including Smb 3.0)

SW WorthSr. Standards Program

Manager,Microsoft

Hybrid Clouds in the Data Center - the End State

Michael ElliottEnterprise Cloud Evangelist,

Dell

introduction to Data Protection: backup to tape, Disk and beyond

Gene NagleSenior Systems Engineer,

Nirvanix

Thomas RiveraSr. Technical Associate, File, Content & Cloud Solutions,

Hitachi Data Systems

2:00 - 2:50

PCi Express and itsinterface to Storage

architectures

Ron EmerickPrincipal HW Engineer,

Oracle

Benefits of Flash in Enterprise Storage

Systems

alex mcDonaldCTO Office,

netapp

building a Successful Storage Product with

Samba

Jeremy AllisonEngineer,Google

Windows azure Storage - Speed and Scale

in the Cloud

Joe GiardinoSenior Development Lead -

Windows Azure Storage,Microsoft

trends in Data Protection

Jason IehlManager - Systems

Engineering,NetApp

2:50 - 3:05 Break (Mezzanine)

3:05 - 3:55

SaS: the Emerging Storage fabric

Marty CzekalskiPresident,

SCSI Trade Association

Gregory McSorleyVice President – SCSI Trade

Association; TechnicalBusiness Development

Manager, Amphenol

Can SSDs achieve HDD Price, Capacity and Performance Parity?

Radoslav DanilakCo-founder & CEO,

Skyera

Practical Steps to implementing pnfS and

nfSv4.1

Alex McDonaldCTO Office,

NetApp

interoperable Cloud Storage with the CDmi

Standard

Mark CarlsonPrincipal Member of

Technical Staff,Oracle

the Changing role of Data Protection in a Virtualized

World

Gene NagleSenior Systems Engineer,

Nirvanix



4:05 - 4:55

SCSi Express: fast & reliable flash Storage for

the Enterprise

Marty CzekalskiPresident,

SCSI Trade Association

Gregory McSorleyVice President – SCSI Trade

Association; TechnicalBusiness Development

Manager, Amphenol

SSDs: Speeding up Data Center Disruption

Khye WeiFlash Product Planning

Manager,Samsung

Semiconductor, Inc

massively Scalable file Storage

Philippe NicolasDirector of Product Strategy,

Scality

implementing a Private Cloud

Alex McDonaldCTO Office,

NetApp

tape Storage for the uninitiated

David PeaseIBM Distinguished Engineer,

IBM Almaden Research Center

tuesday aGeNda7:30 - 8:45 Registration, Continental Breakfast and Networking (Mezzanine)

8:45 - 9:00 Welcome remarksWayne M. Adams, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors; EMC

9:00 - 9:45 State of the Stackrandy bias, Co-founder and Cto, Cloudscaling

9:45 - 10:25 flash memory & Virtualization: Choosing Your Pathrich Petersen, Director Software marketing, SanDisk

10:25 - 10:40

10:40 - 11:20 Storage Performance for VDi tools, techniques and architecturesruss fellows, Senior Partner, Evaluator group

11:20 - 12:00 the new European Data Protection regulation - Why You Should Caregilles Chekroun, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems belgium

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12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (Mezzanine)

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Solid State(lafayette)

Storage Performance(Stevens Creek)

Cloud Storage(Winchester)

Data Engineering(lawrence)

1:15 - 2:05

fibre Channel over Ethernet (fCoE)

John HufferdPresident,

Hufferd Enterprises

Designing in flash in the Data Center (or How i learned to love flash)

Wen YuStorage Architect, Nimble

Storage

Storage Performance analysis

Lee DonnahooStorage Architect,

Microsoft

Combining Snia Cloud, tape and Container

format technologies for the long term retention

of big Data

Gene NagleSenior Systems Engineer

Nirvanix

Wrangling big Data through it infrastructure

redesign

Ryan ChildsVP Solutions Architecture,

Actifio

2:15 - 3:05

rDma interconnects for Storage: technology

update and use Scenarios

Kevin DeierlingVP Marketing,

Mellanox

the anatomy of an Enterprise Storage Stack

Doug DumitruCTO,

EasyCo LLC

San Protocol analysis and Performance management

Robert FinlayBusiness Development

Manager,JDSU

Ceph: A Unified Distributed Storage

System

Sage WeilFounder & CTO,

Inktank

best Practices for Storing massive Quantities of

long term retention Data

Floyd ChristoffersonDirector, Storage Products,

SGI -- Board Member, Active Archive Alliance


3:20 - 4:10

the time for 16gb fibre Channel is now

Scott ShimomuraDirector, Product Marketing,

Brocade

Gregory McSorleyVP, SCSI Trade Association;

Technical Business Dev. Manager, Amphenol

flash vs. Dram - it’s not always about Storage

Jim HandyDirector,

Objective Analysis

together to Create a Scale-out (layered

specialized) Storage Solution, Delivering

unprecedented Performance,

Scalability, Data Protection and lowering

Datacenter and Storage acquisition Costs

Marcelo LealStorage Architect,

Locaweb

Storage Plumbing Session to replace VDi

track Session:

fCoE Direct End-node to End-node

(aka fCoE Vn2Vn)

John HufferdConsultant,

Hufferd Enterprises

retention issues Within the World of Healthcare

Gary WoodruffEnterprise Infrastructure

Architect,Sutter Health

4:20 - 5:10

network Convergence at blazing Speeds with fibre

Channel over Ethernet

J Michel MetzStrategic Product Manager,

Cisco Systems

Properly testing SSDs for Steady State Performance

Doug RollinsSr. Applications Engineer,

Micron Technology

Workload mixology

Kirill MalkinCTO,

Starboard Storage

How Virtual Desktop infrastructure Keeps

up with ioPS Joneses: a technical look at the union of VDi and SSDs

Swapna YasarapuDirector SSD Product

Marketing,sTec

What’s old is new again - Storage tiering




8:45 - 9:00 Welcome remarksWayne m. adams, Chairman, Snia board of Directors; EmC

9:00 - 9:45 open Data Center alliance: Smooth ScalingDavid Casper, Executive Director, ubS

9:45 - 10:25 active archive Strategies and media Choices for long term Data retentionStacy Schwarz-gardner, Strategic technical architect, Spectra logic

10:25 - 10:40

10:40 - 11:35

Featured Panel: Software Defined Storage: New Technology, or Just a New Buzzword?mark Carlson, oracle, Principal Cloud Strategist (moderator); alan Yoder, Huawei, Principal Engineer, Storage Standards;

bridget Warwick, nexenta, Senior marketing and Engineering Executive; lazarus Vekiarides, Entrepreneur and technology Executive; Alex McDonald, NetApp, CTO Office; Rick Walsworth, Director, Product Marketing, Advanced Software Division

11:35 - 12:15 Storage Validation at go Daddy - best Practices from the World’s #1 Web Hosting ProviderPhilippe Vincent, President and CEo, Swifttest

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VDi Storage (Winchester)

12:15 - 1:15 Lunch (Mezzanine)


Hot Spares(lafayette)


Virtualization(Winchester)

Security(lawrence)

8:30 - 9:20

overview of Data Center networks

Dr. Joseph WhiteDistinguished Engineer,

Juniper Networks

Storage technology adoption lessons of

the Past, applied to the future, a Data-driven

analysis

Hubbert SmithConsultant CEO,

Hubbert Smith LLC

oracle Databases on vSphere 5 with EmC

Storage and Cisco uCS

Kannan ManiSr. Technical Solutions

Architect,VMware

Solid State of affairs: Benefits and Challenges

of SSDs in Virtualized Datacenters

irfan ahmadCtO and Co-Founder,

CloudPhysics

Storage Security risk assessments and

mitigation

lee DonnahooStorage Architect,

Microsoft

9:25 - 10:15

How Vn2Vn Will Help accelerate adoption

of fCoE

David FairESF- Board of Directors,

Unified Networking Market-ing Manager,

Intel

Dr. Joseph WhiteDistinguished Engineer,

Juniper Networks

Storage multi-tenancy for Cloud Service Providers

Felix XavierFounder and CTO,

CloudByte

Putting on the flash - using flash technology to

accelerate Databases

Michael AultOracle Flash Consulting

Manager,IBM

Virtual Storage in a Vmware Evaluation

Environment

Vince AsbridgeDirector of Systems and

Software,SANBlaze Technology

implementing Kerberos authentication in the

large-Scale Production nfS Environment

Gregory TouretskySolutions Architect,

Intel IT



open Source and management

(lafayette)


big Data(Winchester)

Security(lawrence)

10:30 - 11:20

nVm Express: optimizing for PCie SSD Performance

David AkersonStrategic Marketing

Engineer,Intel

Peter OnufrykDirector of Engineering,

Integrated Device Technology

open Source Storage opportunities and

limitations

Thomas CoughlinPresident,

Coughlin Associates

You Know SSD’s make mySQl fast, but Do You

Know Why?

Jared HulbertSoftware Development

Manager,Micron Technology

introduction to analytics and big Data - Hadoop

Rob PeglarCTO, Americas,

EMC Isilon

Securing file Data in a Distributed or mobile

World

Chris WinterDirector, Product

Management,SafeNet

11:25 - 12:15

Defining Software Defined Storage

Lazarus VekiaridesEntrepreneur and

Technology Executive

build Simple and agile Data Centers by automating and

orchestrating the network

Harsh SinghProduct Marketing Manager,

Juniper Networks

architecting flash-based Caching for Storage

acceleration

Cameron BrettDirector of Solutions

Marketing,QLogic

Hadoop Distributed file System (HDfS), to Centralize or not to

Centralize?!

Sreev DoddadalapurApplications Performance

Manager,sTec

Consumerization of trusted Computing

Dr. Michael WillettStorage Security Strategist,

Samsung

12:20 - 1:10

the openDaylight Project: an open Source path to a

Unified SDN Controller

Thomas NadeauDistinguished Engineer,

Juniper Networks

Smi-S manage all the things

Chris LionettiReference Architect,

NetApp

a Close look at Hybrid Storage Performance

Kirill MalkinCTO,

Starboard Storage

big Data: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You.

Jim McGannVice President,Index Engines

Server, app, Disk, Switch, or oS - Where is my

Encryption?

Chris WinterDirector Product Management,

SafeNet


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State of the Stack - Monday, June 10 • 9:00 - 9:45Randy Bias, Co-founder and CTO, CloudscalingOpenStack is the fastest growing open source movement in history, but its marketing momentum has largely outrun its technology growth. Why are organizations so eager to embrace OpenStack? Some components – like Swift – are ready for prime time. But others – like Horizon and Quantum – are still evolving. What needs the most attention: networking, storage, compute, or something else? Where are the reference architectures and real world deployments? How are different product and service companies implementing OpenStack in production today? We’ll go beyond the hype and dig deep on OpenStack, exploring all that is great and all that needs serious work. Attendees will leave with a firsthand account of the State of the Stack, ready to help their organizations embrace OpenStack armed with practical knowledge.

Flash Memory & Virtualization: Choosing Your Path - Monday, June 10 • 9:45 - 10:25Rich Peterson, Director Software Marketing, SanDiskAmong the benefits of enterprise flash, its ability to improve the performance and scalability of virtual computing environments is paramount. A plethora of solutions have appeared in the market, and among the success stories we have learned that applying flash to virtualization is not a “one size fits all” proposition. The challenge for the IT strategist is to understand the advantages flash provides in different types of implementations, and to asses options in terms of the organization’s specific requirements. Additionally, rather than seeing different types of flash implementations as mutually exclusive, it’s important to recognize complementary opportunities and focus on the fundamentals of IO efficiency in virtualization platforms.

Storage Performance for VDI Tools, Techniques and Architectures - Monday, June 10 • 10:40 - 11:20Russ Fellows, Senior Partner, Evaluator GroupApplication workloads present unique challenges to both IT architects and system administrators. Solving performance issues often requires recreat-ing complex application environments. Storage performance in particular is tied closely to specific application workloads and environments that are difficult to establish and recreate. Due to complex setup and licensing restrictions, recreating these environments is costly and time consuming. This is particularly true with VDI, which can often require the use of thousands of costly licenses in order to test a workload against the infrastructure. Ad-ditionally, new virtualization technologies, coupled with new storage technologies are rapidly evolving. Learn how emerging technologies impact VDI best practices, including how to architect server, network and in particular storage systems to handle VDI performance effectively. This session will cover the unique storage concerns of VDI workloads with best practices and considerations for architecting a high performance VDI infrastructure.

The New European Data Protection Regulation - Why You Should Care - Monday, June 10 • 11:20 - 12:00Gilles Chekroun, Distinguished Systems Engineer, CiscoThe European Commission is undertaking a major effort to try and harmonize the data protection rules across all 27 EU members. This proposal includes some significant changes like defining a data breach, adding the right to be forgotten, appointing a Data Protection Officer for large com-panies, and many other new elements. Another major change is a shift from a directive to a regulation and include significant financial penalties for infractions. This session explores the new EU data protection legislation and highlights the elements that could have significant impacts on data handling practices.

Open Data Center Alliance: Smooth Scaling - Tuesday, June 11 • 9:00 - 9:45David Casper, Executive Director, UBSWith the relentless growth of digital data, a unified voice on requirements is needed for rapid adoption of efficient, innovative and adoptable storage solutions. This talk will explore current real-world storage trends and opportunities in large, global enterprises, as seen through the lens of the Open Data Center Alliance, a nearly 400-member group of IT Managers that has come together to help shape the evolution of the data center.

Active Archive Strategies and Media Choices for Long Term Data Retention - Tuesday, June 11 • 9:45 - 10:25Stacy Schwarz-Gardner, Strategic Technical Architect, Spectra LogicData growth and global data access have forced organizations to rethink how they manage data life cycle. Data management cloud platforms lever-aging active archive technologies and principles are designed for data access, scalability, and long-term data management regardless of the storage medium utilized. Tiered storage is just one element of a data management cloud. Active archive principles enable data life cycle management across tier and location while enforcing retention and other compliance attributes. Choosing the appropriate media type for long-term storage of data assets based on access profile and criticality to the organization will be key for future proofing data management strategies.

Software Defined Storage: New Technology, or Just a New Buzzword? - Tuesday, June 11 • 10:40 - 11:35Panelists: Mark Carlson, Oracle, Principal Cloud Strategist (Moderator); Alan Yoder, Huawei, Principal Engineer, Storage Standards; Bridget Warwick, Nexenta, Senior Marketing & Engineering Executive; Lazarus Vekiarides, Entrepreneur and Technology Executive; Alex McDonald, NetApp, CTO OfficeThere is a new buzzword in the industry that is being thrown around to describe storage offerings: Software Defined Storage. It seems as if the term “Software Defined” is being used as an adjective for everything from Networking to Data Centers. Since storage has already been abstracted and virtualized in the existing offerings today, what capabilities should an offering that claims to be Software Defined Storage be able to do? The panel members will present their own views on this topic and debate issues raised by the audience.

Storage Validation at Go Daddy - Best Practices from the World’s #1 Web Hosting Provider - Tuesday, June 11 • 11:35 - 12:15Philippe Vincent, President and CEO, SwiftTestTimes are good for storage professionals. A flurry of new technologies promise faster, cheaper, and better storage solutions. Storage-as-a-service offers a new blueprint for flexible, optimized storage operations. Go Daddy is taking full advantage of these opportunities with continual innovation made possible by SwiftTest. Attend this presentation to hear how Go Daddy established best practices for storage technology validation that pro-duced a winning mix of technologies to manage their 28 PB of data with 99.999% uptime. The new process empowers Go Daddy with the insight they need to control storage costs and optimize service delivery.

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introduction to analytics and big Data - HadoopWednesday, June 12 • 10:30 - 11:20This tutorial serves as a foundation for the field of analytics and Big Data, with an emphasis on Hadoop. An overview of current data analysis techniques, the emerging science around Big Data and an overview of Hadoop will be presented. Storage techniques and file system design for the Hadoop File System (HDFS) and implementation trade-offs will be discussed in detail. This tutorial is a blend of non-technical and introductory-level technical material.

Hadoop Distributed file System (HDfS), to Centralize or not to Centralize?!Wednesday, June 12 • 11:25 - 12:15Hadoop deployments, traditionally, use a distributed file system to store massive amounts of data. However, some applications see benefits in using a centralized storage approach. This presentation cover different architectures used to centralize the storage portion of Hadoop. We show the different setups used with distributed storage systems such as Lustre, OrageFS and traditional NFS settings. The presen-tation includes benchmarking results, settings and configuration recommendation to achieve best results and the pitfalls along the way. We also cover the benefits of using high performance networking architectures and the advantages of RDMA based interconnect. RDMA technology helps storage systems to provide highest throughput and lowest latency with rates higher than 1million IOPs.

big Data: What You Don’t Know Will Hurt You.Wednesday, June 12 • 12:20 - 11:10Big Data has reached your data center causing exponentially growing storage management costs, increased risk of security breaches, and compliance and le-gal threats. Take back control of your storage costs, understand data using meta-data reports and filters, and determine the disposition of your unstructured user data leveraging the latest technology.

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Hybrid Clouds in the Data Center - the End StateMonday, June 10 • 1:00 - 1:50This presentation will define how to build clouds in a heterogeneous, open, and secure environment to take advantage of the benefits that hybrid cloud provides. The concepts of Data Protection and Archive In the Cloud, Components of build-ing a Private Cloud, and Integration of Private and Public to form Hybrid Clouds will be covered. The presentation will include case studies to highlight how fortune 500 and global companies are utilizing cloud infrastructure to gain agility and ef-ficiency in their datacenter

Windows azure Storage - Speed and Scale in the CloudMonday, June 10 • 2:00 - 2:50In today’s world that is increasingly dominated by mobile and cloud computing ap-plication developers require durable, scalable, reliable, and fast storage solu-tions like Windows Azure Storage. This talk will cover the internal design of the Windows Azure Storage system and how it is engineered to meet these ever growing demands. This session will have a particular focus on performance,

scale, and reliability. In addition, we will cover patterns & best practices for developing performance solutions on storage that optimize for cost, latency, and throughput. Windows Azure Storage is currently leveraged by clients to build big data and web scale services such as Bing, Xbox Music, SkyDrive, Halo 4, Hadoop, and Skype.

interoperable Cloud Storage with the CDmi StandardMonday, June 10 • 3:05 - 3:55The Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI) is an industry standard with ISO ratification. There is now an open source reference implementation available from SNIA as well. Storage vendors and Cloud providers have started announcing their implementations of the CDMI standard, demonstrating the reality of interoperable cloud storage. This talk will help you understand how to keep from getting locked into any given vendor by using the standard. Real world examples will help you understand how to apply this to your own situation.

implementing a Private CloudMonday, June 10 • 4:05 - 4:55This session will be a technical dive into implementations of a private storage cloud, and will use cases and best practices examples of how it can fit into your existing IT operations. SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative (CSI) has created the Cloud Data Management Interface (CDMI), now an ISO certified standard, that can assist you in your cloud deployments utilizing both traditional file systems and new cloud file system formats. This presentation will dive into the details of designing and deploying a private cloud, including how CDMI can assist, and taking account of server virtualization on cloud design.

Combining Snia Cloud, tape and Container format technologies for the long term retention of big DataTuesday, June 11 • 1:15 - 2:05Generating and collecting very large data sets is becoming a necessity in many domains that also need to keep that data for long periods. Examples include astronomy, atmospheric science, genomics, medical records, pho-tographic archives, video archives, and large-scale e-commerce. While this presents significant opportunities, a key challenge is providing economically scalable storage systems to efficiently store and preserve the data, as well as to enable search, access, and analytics on that data in the far future. Both cloud and tape technologies are viable alternatives for storage of big data and SNIA supports their standardization. The SNIA Cloud Data Manage-ment Interface (CDMI) provides a standardized interface to create, retrieve, update, and delete objects in a cloud. The SNIA Linear Tape File System (LTFS) takes advantage of a new generation of tape hardware to provide efficient access to tape using standard, familiar system tools and interfaces. In addition, the SNIA Self-contained Information Retention Format (SIRF) defines a storage container for long term retention that will enable future ap-plications to interpret stored data regardless of the application that originally produced it. This tutorial will present advantages and challenges in long term retention of big data, as well as initial work on how to combine SIRF with LTFS and SIRF with CDMI to address some of those challenges.

Ceph: A Unified Distributed Storage SystemTuesday, June 11 • 2:15 - 3:05Ceph is a massively scalable, open source, distributed storage system. It is

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comprised of an object store, block store, and a POSIX- compatible distributed file system. The platform is capable of auto-scaling to the exabyte level and beyond, it runs on commodity hardware, is self-healing and self-managing, and has no single point of failure. Ceph is in the Linux Kernel and is integrated with the OpenStack and CloudStack cloud platforms. This talk will provide an intro into the Ceph archi-tecture and how it unifies storage for the cloud.

Data EnginEEring

introduction to Data Protection: backup to tape, Disk and beyond Monday, June 10 • 1:00 - 1:50Extending the enterprise backup paradigm with disk-based technologies allow us-ers to significantly shrink or eliminate the backup time window. This tutorial focuses on various methodologies that can deliver an efficient and cost effective disk-to-disk-to-tape (D2D2T) solution. This includes approaches to storage pooling inside of modern backup applications, using disk and file systems within these pools, as well as how and when to utilize deduplication and virtual tape libraries (VTL) within these infrastructures.

trends in Data ProtectionMonday, June 10 • 2:00 - 2:50Many disk technologies, both old and new, are being used to augment tried and true backup and data protection methodologies to deliver better information and application restoration performance. These technologies work in parallel with the existing backup paradigm. This session will discuss many of these technologies in detail. Important considerations of data protection include performance, scale, regulatory compliance, recovery objectives and cost. Technologies include contem-porary backup, disk based backups, snapshots, continuous data protection and capacity optimized storage.

the Changing role of Data Protection in a Virtualized WorldMonday, June 10 • 3:05 - 3:55Backup administrators who have grown accustomed to traditional batch-oriented backup using a single local system are seeing their world change very quickly these days. Virtualized data centers with cloud computing and resilient, self-healing lo-cal and cloud storage combined with existing in-house systems are demanding completely new strategies for data protection. And even the functions and respon-sibilities of data protection administrators are changing at a fast pace. This tutorial presents the rapid changes and challenges in data protection brought about by storage, both local and cloud, that combines protection such as “time machines” (snapshots and versioning) with primary and secondary repositories. Following from those changes, the discussion will include methods being used by backup ad-ministrators as both temporary and long-term solutions to cope with these changes and to maximize their potential benefits.

tape Storage for the uninitiatedMonday, June 10 • 4:05 - 4:55This talk provides a complete overview of modern tape as a storage medium. It includes a little history, a description of how modern tape works (not as obvious as it looks), a discussion of tape automation, and details on why tape is intrinsically more reliable than disk, where it’s capacity growth curve is headed and why, what it’s well suited for, how LTFS makes it easier to use, and a cost and environmental comparison with other media.

Wrangling big Data through it infrastructure redesign Tuesday, June 11 • 1:15 - 2:05By virtualizing the management and retention of data, Actifio Copy Data Storage captures data once and reuses it for multiple applications. This eliminates the need for multiple data silos and point tools, replacing them with one SLA-driven, virtualized Copy Data Storage platform. As a result, data is copied, stored and moved less, driving capital expenses down by up to 90 percent. Additionally, it enables data to be instantly protected and instantly recoverable from any point in time. Using the console, the admin-istrator defines a service level agreement (SLA) for each protected system or application based on data protection requirements and business policies. Actifio Copy Data Storage captures changed blocks as they occur and stores the captured data on the storage device or devices as defined by the SLA.

best Practices for Storing massive Quantities of long term retention DataTuesday, June 11 • 2:15 - 3:05The growth, access requirements and retention needs for data in a mass storage infrastructure for HPC, life sciences, media and entertainment, higher education and research are relentless. The problem lies heavy IT management workload and load balancing between tiers, and the require-ment to create an easily accessible online repository for data without an increasing budget. So how can an organization keep critical information in an archive that can be quickly accessed? By implementing an active archive so that the user experience with data is decoupled from the infrastructure. . Active archives provide organizations with a persistent view of the data and make it easy to access files whenever needed, regardless of the storage medium it lies on.

retention issues Within the World of HealthcareTuesday, June 11 • 3:20 - 4:10Healthcare is the “last” big data organization to truely enter the digital world. Traditionaly until just a few years ago, computers were only used to make workflows easier rather than providing storage and archiving functional-ity. With the hurry to impliment the Electronic Medical Record, most of the Health Industry has forgotten that they need to maintain the patient informa-tion for up to 30 years. When you think of this in the terms of traditional data management tools that our “banking” industry has used for many years, the question was “do you want to keep the data for 7 years”. This brings us to the delemia, 1). how to store the data. 2) and how much will it cost me to store that data? I will paint the current situations, along with what technology exists to help manage this delemia, and what things I feel the industry needs to do in order to provide us tools to solve the problem.

What’s old is new again - Storage tieringTuesday, June 11 • 4:20 - 5:10The SNIA defines tiered storage as “storage that is physically partitioned into multiple distinct classes based on price, performance or other attributes.” Al-though physical tiering of storage has been a common practice for decades, new interest in automated tiering has arisen due to increased availability of techniques that automatically promote “hot” data to high performance stor-age tiers – and demote “stale” data to low-cost tiers.

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Smb remote file Protocol (including Smb 3.0)Monday, June 10 • 1:00 - 1:50The SMB protocol has evolved over time from CIFS to SMB1 to SMB2, with implementations by dozens of vendors including most major Operating Sys-tems and NAS solutions. The SMB 3.0 protocol, announced at the SNIA SDC Conference in September 2011, is expected to have its first commercial imple-mentations by Microsoft, NetApp and EMC by the end of 2012 (and potentially more later). This SNIA Tutorial describes the basic architecture of the SMB protocol and basic operations, including connecting to a share, negotiating a dialect, executing operations and disconnecting from a share. The second part of the talk will cover improvements in the version 2.0 of the protocol, including a reduced command set, support for asynchronous operations, compounding of operations, durable and resilient file handles, file leasing and large MTU sup-port. The final part of the talk covers the latest changes in the SMB 3.0 version, including persistent handles (SMB Transparent Failover), active/active clusters (SMB Scale-Out), multiple connections per sessions (SMB Multichannel), sup-port for RDMA protocols (SMB Direct), snapshot-based backups (VSS for Remote File Shares) opportunistic locking of folders (SMB Directory Leasing), and SMB encryption.

building a Successful Storage Product with SambaMonday, June 10 • 2:00 - 2:50CIFS/SMB/SMB2/SMB3 server software is now a commodity. Your product has to have it, but it certainly isn’t where your customers will perceive the value in your product. Enter Samba. We’ve been creating a Free Software/Open Source CIFS/SMB/SMB2/SMB3 server for twenty years, with mostly the same engineers still involved. We’re funded by many industry heavyweights such as Google and IBM, and we are used in a wide range of storage products. Learn how to integrate Samba into your product to provide the needed gateway service into your backend storage, how to navigate the rocky waters of Open Source licensing without releas-ing copyright code or trade secrets you want to keep, and where Samba is going on a technical level.

Practical Steps to implementing pnfS and nfSv4.1Monday, June 10 • 3:05 - 3:55Much has been written about pNFS (parallelized NFS) and NFSv41, the latest NFS protocol. But practical examples of how to implement NFSv4.1 and pNFS are fragmentary and incomplete. This presentation will take a step-by-step guide to implementation, with a focus on file systems. From client and server selection and preparation, the tutorial will cover key auxiliary protocols like DNS, LDAP and Kerberos, and finally a demonstration of working pNFS environment will be given.

massively Scalable file StorageMonday, June 10 • 4:05 - 4:55Internet changed the world and continues to revolutionize how people are con-nected, exchange data and do business. This radical change is one of the cause of the rapid explosion of data volume that required a new data storage approach and design. One of the common element is that unstructured data rules the IT world. How famous Internet services we all use everyday can support and scale with thousands of new users added daily and continue to deliver an enterprise-class SLA ? What are various technologies behind a Cloud Storage service to support hundreds of millions users ? This tutorial covers technologies introduced by famous papers about Google File System and BigTable, Amazon Dynamo or Apache Hadoop. In addition, Parallel, Scale-out, Distributed and P2P approach-es with Lustre, PVFS and pNFS with several proprietary ones are presented as well. This tutorial adds also some key features essential at large scale to help understand and differentiate industry vendors offering.

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Storage technology adoption lessons of the Past, applied to the future, a Data-driven analysisWednesday, June 12 • 8:30 - 9:20Technology adoption is not guaranteed. This starts with a history (with data) of the adoption of Enterprise Serial ATA, the adoption of Enterprise SSD and adoption of Cloud storage; supported by first hand insights into the underlying drivers of storage technology adoption. These history lessons are applied to give insights into the adoption of tomorrows storage technologies, and in the spirit of open-source, concludes with a blueprint of cloud-scale storage archi-tecture, acceptable to mainstream IT.

Storage multi-tenancy for Cloud Service ProvidersWednesday, June 12 • 9:25 - 10:15Storage has mostly been an individually managed entity under server and networking virtualization layers. Today, there is a growing demand for this to change into storage virtualization platforms that act like and can be managed like a server virtualization layer. This session will look at the storage require-ments that cloud service providers have today and what they can do to create a secure and flexible multi-tenant storage infrastructure. The speaker will explain those situations when storage performance control is attempted on a shared storage platform and what to look for in terms of block size and read-write work load pattern. It will cover examples when performance and capacity need to be scaled quickly with guaranteed performance at every application level and the type of storage that will address these requirements.

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open Source Storage opportunities and limitations Wednesday, June 12 • 10:30 - 11:20This talk will look at current and forthcoming developments in open source stor-age systems using commodity hardware. We will examine some case studies for open storage systems such as those in the Open Computer Project, and related projects, to create new methods of leveraging commodity hardware to provide sophisticated enterprise functionality at lower overall costs and with less reliance on a single hardware vendor. We shall discuss how this ap-proach has served as the backbone of many cloud storage systems but also examine where open source storage has made less progress. The talk will also examine future anticipated developments in open source storage and how these approaches will impact the future of storage device as well as system architectures.

build Simple and agile Data Centers by automating and orchestrating the networkWednesday, June 12 • 11:25 - 12:15Cloud computing is transforming the way business is done today, and it’s not hard to see why when you consider all the benefits that the cloud promises: flexibility, business agility and economies of scale. Unfortunately, as you delve deeper into the underlying layers of compute, storage and network, you quickly realize the complexity in managing such an infrastructure in a dynamic envi-ronment where workloads are mobile and move all around the data center. With the advances in server virtualization, it is possible to deploy applications within seconds. However, making the corresponding changes to the network infrastructure can take hours and sometime even days. In this presentation you will learn how you can use automation and orchestration to make the network agile and create a truly flexible data center environment.


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Smi-S manage all the thingsWednesday, June 12 • 12:20 - 1:10 A chronicle of the development and evolution of the SMI-S protocol that manag-es multi-vendor environments. Topics covered will include exposing & modify-ing storage directly to clients. SMI-S allows discover and control of such things as RAID Groups, Primordial Disks, and Thin Provisioning. These are tools that are needed by Storage Consumers to manage ever increasing complexity and capacity datacenters. Complying with SNIA’s SMI-S = more than a check box.

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Storage Security risk assessments and mitigationWednesday, June 12 • 8:30 - 9:20Storage security risk assessments and mitigations: How to run a storage secu-rity risk assessment and develop a mitigation strategy. Will also include a dis-cussion of various storage security issues in the industry. Storage networking, fiber channel in particular, is vulnerable to a variety of security threats. This talk will address how to analyze, document, and resolve these issues using both industry best practices and common sense.

implementing Kerberos authentication in the large-Scale Production nfS EnvironmentWednesday, June 12 • 9:25 - 10:15Intel design environment is heavily dependent on NFS. It includes 100s of NAS servers and 10s of 1000s of mostly Linux clients. Historically, this environment relies on AUTH_SYS security mode. While this is a typical setup for most of NFSv3 shops - it implies various limitations to a large enterprise. For example, 16 groups per user is one of such fundamental limitations. Intel IT is working to provide Global Data Access capabilities and simplify data sharing between multiple design teams and geographies. As part of this program we decided to switch to RPCSEC_GSS (Kerberos) security in our NFS environment. This decision required modifications to multiple components in our distributed envi-ronment. How can we ensure Kerberos tickets’ distribution between multiple compute servers, for both batch and interactive workloads? How can we pro-vide tickets for faceless accounts and cron jobs? How can NFS with Kerberos authentication be accessed via Samba translators? How to make Kerberos authentication experience in the Linux environment as seamless as it is in the Windows one? These changes can’t be performed overnight - how can we support mix of KRB and non-KRB filesystems over long transition period? The presentation will cover these and other challenges we’re dealing with as part of this journey to more secure global network file system environment.

Securing file Data in a Distributed or mobile WorldWednesday, June 12 • 10:30 - 11:20When an organization has a distributed or mobile workforce or requires execu-tives or key personnel to work from home, the issue of securing the business critical data becomes especially problematic. In most cases today, responsibil-ity for the security of the file data is the left up to the individual end user. Theft or even the borrowing of the mobile device leaves critical file data exposed. The rapid growth of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) brings cost savings and efficiency for organizations but also a greater risk of security breaches. Today, no control or reporting of use of critical data on mobile devices is possible and this creates regulatory problems.

Consumerization of trusted ComputingWednesday, June 12 • 11:25 - 12:15State, Federal, and international legislation mandate the use of strong secu-rity measures to protect confidential and personal information. Businesses and governments react through due diligence by implementing security best practices. In fact, being secure in their management of information provides a competitive advantage and enhances the trust that consumers of products and services have in business/government. The modern consumer also man-ages confidential and personal data, as well as sensitive applications. Net: The consumer, especially in this highly interconnected world, requires equivalent security best practices. The difference is the broad range of technical expertise in the consumer population (all of us!). The security functionality must be: Easy to use Transparent Robust Inexpensive And, be a natural part of the comput-ing infrastructure. Enter: Trusted computing, as defined and standardized by the Trusted Computing Group (TCG, an industry consortium with a broad in-dustry, government, and international membership, has developed technical specifications for a number of trusted elements. Included are specifications for integrated platform security, network client security and trust, mobile device security, and trusted storage; all key components of the consumer computing experience.

Server, app, Disk, Switch, or oS - Where is my Encryption?Wednesday, June 12 • 12:20 - 1:10Encryption of critical data is being mandated by compliance regulations and is becoming increasingly utilized for isolation or segregation of important sensitive data that is not yet regulated. There are many different technologies available to encrypt business critical data that can be used in different physical and logi-cal locations in an organization’s production environment. Each location has its advantages and disadvantages depending on factors such as currently de-ployed infrastructure, compliance demands, sensitivity of data, vulnerability to threats, and staffing, amongst others. To make things even more problematic, the various locations typically fall under the management of different groups within an organization’s operational and IT departments – storage administra-tion, desktop administration, server administration, networking, and application administration. This session will illustrate how to identify the most cost effective location and understand how that meets the needs of the organization while introducing as little operational management overhead as possible.

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the State of Solid State StorageMonday, June 10 • 1:00 - 1:50It’s been nine years since NAND flash prices dropped below those of DRAM, drawing the attention of the computing community. This presentation looks at the changes SSDs have brought to computing and projects where this impor-tant technology is headed. It will answer several important questions: • Why is NAND interesting and where does it fit in the memory/storage hierarchy? • How many IOPS do different applications really need? • How does NAND/SSD trade off against HDDs? DRAM? • What is TCO and why does it matter? • How should I evaluate SSD specifications? What has SNIA done to improve this? • What about endurance? Are SSDs reliable? • How will new storage interfaces impact my storage plans? • What are the trade-offs in a successful storage system architecture?


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Benefits of Flash in Enterprise Storage SystemsMonday, June 10 • 2:00 - 2:50This is the latest update to a very popular SNIA tutorial. Targeted primarily at an IT audience, it presents a brief overview of the discontinuity represented by flash technologies which are being integrated into Enterprise Storage Systems today, including technologies, benefits, and price/performance. It then goes on to describe flash fits into typical Enterprise Storage architectures today, with descriptions of specific use cases. Finally the presentation speculates briefly on what the future will bring, including post-flash and dram replacement non-volatile memory technologies.

Can SSDs achieve HDD Price, Capacity and Performance Parity?Monday, June 10 • 3:05 - 3:55Only a system level approach to flash memory management can meet increasing storage performance demands while bringing the price of all solid-state storage arrays to a level that is equal to high performance HDDs. Innovations are nec-essary to make 19/20 nm and below MLC flash memory usable in mainstream enterprise storage. In addition, reducing high costs that keep flash memory from serving as primary storage (as compared to caches or tiers) is very important. This presentation will highlight flash technology trends and offer system level solutions that have advanced flash memory in the enterprise storage market.

SSDs: Speeding up Data Center DisruptionMonday, June 10 • 4:05 - 4:55SSDs are making major inroads in the enterprise. They not only provide high performance, low latency, and low power, but also significantly improve the overall total cost of ownership for IT managers. They hold tremendous potential for improving IT ROI by increasing the efficiency of the data center. We will dis-cuss the key technical considerations of solid state drives and the challenges that face them in the enterprise. You will come away from the presentation knowing the extent of the capabilities of SSDs and the limits of their performance.

Designing in flash in the Data Center (or How i learned to love flash)Tuesday, June 11 • 1:15 - 2:05Most hardware vendors are incorporating flash memory in their products be-cause it has higher performance compared to hard disk and higher density compared to DRAM. One of the driving forces behind this adoption is the virtu-alization of servers and desktops, which increases the need for serving random I/O at high speeds. However, the architecture around how flash is leveraged varies dramatically from product to product—some are optimized for perfor-mance, some for cost of capacity, and some for reliability and data protection. This session will tell users how they can get a good blend of performance, capacity, and data protection.

the anatomy of an Enterprise Storage StackTuesday, June 11 • 2:15 - 3:05The EasyCo Enterprise Storage Stack Generic Linux includes a generic stor-age stack. While functional, enterprise performance and features are beyond the reach of standard drivers and hardware. Our solution is to take a system-level approach to the problems and opportunities when dealing with arrays of consumer SSDs on generic server hardware. We will discuss which SSDs and controllers work best, and why. What levels of performance are attainable. In memory versus on media database management. Block-level compression techniques. Statistical versus deterministic de-duplication. In the end, a end-

to-end system design will be presented that combines generic server-class hardware with customized software yielding best-of-breed performance, wear, redundancy, error correction, and de-dupe all without requiring any specialized hardware, and at a build cost of < $1.25/GB (before compression and de-dupe).

flash vs. Dram - it’s not always about StorageTuesday, June 11 • 3:20 - 4:10Sys admins have been deploying SSDs and flash PCIe storage in increasing numbers as an alternative to maxing out the system memory with more DRAM. After an explanation of how this trade-off works, this presentation will share five case studies in which flash has been used to reduce memory requirements by accelerating storage. The net result is a reduction in cost, power, and cooling. A wrap-up will suggest potential problem areas and will present a variety of solu-tions aimed at solving some of these issues.

Properly testing SSDs for Steady State PerformanceTuesday, June 11 • 4:20 - 5:10As the demand for SSDs increases, so does the need to ensure the best drive is selected for each deployment. Essential to the selection process are the ability to validate manufacturers’ claims about SSD performance and a thor-ough understanding of how published performance is measured for different drive designs, markets, and usage models. While each SSD type will exhibit its own unique behaviors, most of the drives currently in these markets will exhibit similar behavior characteristics: as the drive fills, performance will decrease non-linearly. In this class we will focus on Consumer and Enterprise class SSDs designed for primary data storage.

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Storage Performance analysisTuesday, June 11 • 1:15 - 2:05An overview of the tools and methodologies available to measure and analyze storage performance issues. Methodologies include speeds/feeds, bottle-necks, how to find issues such as the infamous “FC slow drain”, and long-term planning.

San Protocol analysis and Performance managementTuesday, June 11 • 2:15 - 3:05This presentation is for the Storage Manager, Administrator or Architect looking to increase their understanding of storage protocols for performance analysis and issue resolution. We will show examples of how traffic analysis can be used to identify storage related performance issues from both the initiator, switch and target points.

the Plumbing Power: open Source technologies and market Products together to Create a Scale-out (layered specialized) Storage Solution, Delivering unprecedented Performance, Scalability, Data Protection and lowering Datacenter and Storage acquisition Costs.Tuesday, June 11 • 3:20 - 4:10Explain how Locaweb could reduce by many times storage acquisition and datacenter costs; at the same time that the utilization, performance, scalability and data protection were enhanced. Using some market products combined with Open Source technologies in a ingenious way, and creating a solution based on specialized layers, focused on the understanding of the workload and specific app’s tuning. As well as features like: compression, deduplication, SSD’s, RAIDZ3, and etc.


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integration (without architecture changes) into the current environment which preserves the SAN data protection model while extending the life of the existing infrastructure, and which features scalable and efficient cache allocation. This session provides a solid, how-to approach to evaluating how best to boost I/O performance taking into consideration the performance and complexity trade-offs inherent to where you place caching technology – in storage arrays, appli-ances or servers.

a Close look at Hybrid Storage PerformanceWednesday, June 12 • 12:20 - 1:10Hybrid storage platforms mixing SSD and HDD storage changed the way we have to think about performance and capacity scaling in storage systems. Mea-suring performance for applications becomes less of a function of disk spindles. The presenter will discuss the implications of solid state used as a read and write accelerators on performance for various workloads and the changes seen as the accelerator resources are grown. He will use real-world examples, as well as laboratory modeling.

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PCie-based Storage technology architectural Design ConsiderationsMonday, June 10 • 1:00 - 1:50The combination of solid state technology and PCIe connectivity will power enterprise applications into the next decade and forever alter the topography of all servers and storage arrays. This seminar guides you through the land-scape surrounding PCIe-based storage and how SCSIe, SATAe, and NVMe will ever more impact your storage designs. SSS is a disruptive technology with compelling performance, power, and form factor benefits that has sparked the creative genius of today’s leading storage architects. However, every aspect of the server or array will be impacted from the operating system, to the data center application, to the physical hardware. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear a seasoned storage professionals’ predictions on storage array design and how SSS will propel a new class of PCIe-based storage products.

PCi Express and its interface to Storage architecturesMonday, June 10 • 2:00 - 2:50PCI Express Gen2 and Gen3, IO Virtualization, FCoE, SSD, PCI Express Stor-age Devices are here. What are PCIe Storage Devices – why do you care? This session describes PCI Express, Single Root IO Virtualization and the implica-tions on FCoE, SSD, PCIe Storage Devices and impacts of all these changes on storage connectivity, storage transfer rates. The potential implications to Storage Industry and Data Center Infrastructures will also be discussed.

SaS: the Emerging Storage fabricMonday, June 10 • 3:05 - 3:55SAS is the backbone of nearly every enterprise storage deployment, rapidly evolving, adding new features, enhanced capabilities and offering “no compro-mise” system performance. SAS not only excels as a device level interface, its versatility, reliability and scalability have made it the connectivity standard of choice for creating new Enterprise storage architectures. This presentation covers the advantages of using SAS as a device interface, and how its capa-bilities as a connectivity solution, are changing the way data centers are being deployed. Advantaging 12 Gb/s transfer rates, bandwidth aggregation, SAS Fabrics (including switches) active connections, and multi-function connectors (connectors that support SAS as well as PCIe Attached Storage devices) al-lows data center architects to create sustainable storage solutions that scale well into the future.

Workload mixologyTuesday, June 11 • 4:20 - 5:10Storage workloads are diverse, and, typically, custom system designs are used to optimize the performance to match the application need. With a push for delivering internal clouds, it would be simpler if you could get predictable performance for diverse applications across SAN and NAS using a single pool of storage. This session will discuss: how a single storage system can be optimized to consolidate multiple diverse workloads; what plays well to-gether and what does not; what architectural principles need to be solved for application consolidation on a single system; and how both virtual and physi-cal applications peacefully can coexist on one storage system.

oracle Databases on vSphere 5 with EmC Storage and Cisco uCSWednesday, June 12 • 8:30 - 9:20This session will cover the architecture, deployment and best practice guide-lines for Oracle databases on vSphere 5 platform; this enables VMware part-ners and customer to successfully architect, deploy and provide services to their customers Attendees will also learn how to architect and deploy Oracle 11gR2 RAC on VMFS, based on the step by step guide along with the workload characterization study conducted jointly with Cisco and EMC on vSphere5. Per-formance data will be shared for 24 hour run on four RAC nodes, Live migration of Oracle RAC nodes under OLTP load followed by a RAC vMotion Demo.

Putting on the flash - using flash technology to accelerate DatabasesWednesday, June 12 • 9:25 - 10:15Flash storage technology has matured to the point where it is used at the enterprise level for database storage and performance. This presentation shows through actual client use cases how to best utilize flash technology with databases.

You Know SSD’s make mySQl fast, but Do You Know Why?Wednesday, June 12 • 10:30 - 11:20Everybody knows SSDs make MySQL faster because they are fast. But the story doesn’t end there. We will share what we’ve learned about the me-chanics of MySQL performance on SSD’s. Our analysis will shed light on some interesting questions, such as: Why do some SSDs perform better with MySQL than others? Why does relative IO performance not always correlate to MySQL performance? Exactly which characteristics of SSD’s matter to MySQL? What causes the big gap between what high end SSDs are capable of and what MySQL can actually drive? How can MySQL evolve to get more benefit out of SSDs?

architecting flash-based Caching for Storage accelerationWednesday, June 12 • 11:25 - 12:15Advancements in server technologies continue to widen the I/O performance gap between mission critical servers and I/O subsystems. Flash-based caching technology is proving to be particularly effective in addressing the gap in storage I/O performance. But, getting maximum benefit from cach-ing depends on how and where it is deployed in the storage subsystem. Strong arguments exist both for and against the placement of cache in three specific locations in the storage subsystem: within storage arrays, as net-work appliances and within servers. It is essential to look for an approach that delivers the accelerated application performance benefits of flash-based caching with support for clustered and virtualized applications, transparent


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SCSi Express: – fast & reliable flash Storage for the EnterpriseMonday, June 10 • 4:05 - 4:55Recently announced, SCSI Express represents the natural evolution of en-terprise storage technology building upon decades of customer and industry experience. SCSI Express is based on two of the highest volume and widely deployed, interoperable technologies in the world – SCSI and PCI Express. These two technologies enable unprecedented performance gains while main-taining enterprise experience. This presentation contains an in-depth overview of SCSI Express including what it is, where it will be developed, why it is im-portant to the enterprise computing platform, details on its architecture, and the current status of the timeline

fibre Channel over Ethernet (fCoE)Tuesday, June 11 • 1:15 - 2:05The Fibre Channel (T11.3) standards committee developed a Standard called Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) The FCoE standard specifies the encap-sulation of Fibre Channel frames into Ethernet Frames and the amalgamation of these technologies into a network fabric that can support Fibre Channel protocols and other protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP/IP etc. A “Direct End-to-End” FCoE variant has been accepted for the next version of the Standard The tutorial will show the Fundamentals of these FCoE concepts and describe how they might be exploited in a Data Center environment and its position with regards to FC and iSCSI. The requirements on the Ethernet Fabric for support of FC protocols will also be shown.

rDma interconnects for Storage: technology update and use ScenariosTuesday, June 11 • 2:15 - 3:05As storage technologies have adapted to accommodate the exponential growth of data worldwide, RDMA interconnect technology has been keeping pace and gaining momentum. With InfiniBand and Ethernet connectivity op-tions, RDMA provides the features needed to keep data flowing to and from applications efficiently and effectively. This session will review the basics of RDMA transports and features that make RDMA ideal for storage and con-verged networking, the latest updates to the technology, and use cases for storage deployment.

the time for 16gb fibre Channel is nowTuesday, June 11 • 3:20 - 4:10The rapid expansion of business opportunities based on transactional data is reshaping IT investment priorities. Data center teams must now ensure that their storage network is capable of delivering high levels of performance and availability as well as supporting more advanced features. By incorporating 16Gb Fibre Channel, the newest and fastest network standard, IT managers can make certain the organization they are serving can scale rapidly without jeopardizing processing performance. This session will discuss how 16Gb Fi-bre Channel helps customers in their cloud and virtualization environments and take a look at the latest developments in Gen6 Fibre Channel standards for next generation storage networks.

network Convergence at blazing Speeds with fibre Channel over EthernetTuesday, June 11 • 4:20 - 5:10Network convergence, especially at the edge, is getting attention and traction with customers. It simplifies data center infrastructure by consolidating block-based storage and traditional IP-based data communications networks onto a single converged Ethernet network. This session will discuss the advantages of deploying Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) as the next generation net-working convergence protocol. In an effort led by the Fibre Channel Industry

Association (FCIA) and technical committee T11 within NCITS, presenters will lead an open discussion on the options and realized gains for defining mappings for transporting Fibre Channel over different network technologies and compare what BB6 (Backbone 6) offers compared to the currently ratified Backbone 5 (BB5).

overview of Data Center networksWednesday, June 12 • 8:30 - 9:20With the completion of the majority of the various standards used within the Data Center plus the wider deployment of I/O consolidation and converged networks, a solid comprehension of how these networks will behave and perform is essential. This tutorial covers technology and protocols used to construct and operate Data Center Networks. Particular emphasis will be placed on clear and concise tutorials of the IEEE Data Center Bridging protocols (PFC, DCBX, ETS, QCN, etc), data center specific IETF protocols (TRILL, etc), fabric based switches, LAG, and QoS. QoS topics will address head of line blocking, incast, microburst, sustained conges-tion, and traffic engineering.

How Vn2Vn Will Help accelerate adoption of fCoEWednesday, June 12 • 9:25 - 10:15VN2VN is an enhancement to the ANSI T11 specification for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) that promises to significantly reduce the cost of implementing an FCoE SAN. VN2VN allows end-to-end FCoE over an L2 network of DCB switches. VN2VN is part of the BB6 draft standard that is drawing steadily to completion and is now in letter ballet stage. Anticipating the value of VN2VN, some vendors have already started to release VN2VN capable products. Customers and bloggers are starting to discuss the impact of VN2VN on their environments. This presentation will begin with a brief overview of what VN2VN is and proceed to elucidate its real capabilities in illustrative usage models. How VN2VN can be used in typical cus-tomer deployments will be shown.

nVm Express: optimizing for PCie SSD PerformanceWednesday, June 12 • 10:30 - 11:20Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMExpress) is a new storage standard specifically designed for PCIe SSDs. NVM Express is an optimized, high performance, scal-able host controller interface with a streamlined register interface and command set designed for Enterprise, Datacenter, and Client systems that use PCIe SSDs. NVM Express is architected from the ground up for Non-Volatile Memory (NVM). NVM Express significantly improves both random and sequential performance by reducing latency, enabling high levels of parallelism, and streamlining the command set while providing support for security, end-to-end data protection, and other Client and Enterprise features users need. This session will provide information on how NVM Express delivers performance and faster response times that Data Center and client systems need.

Defining Software Defined StorageWednesday, June 12 • 11:25 - 12:15The notion of data services being comprised of software has natural appeal, but what exactly does it mean? Given a huge portfolio of software and hardware that is available for a datacenter today, it is difficult to make sense of what “software de-fined storage” truly is and what benefits it could provide. While there is some truth to the idea that it is about reducing reliance on costly hardware, many see it as a way to bring new flexibility to datacenter operations. In this discussion, we will propose a set of requirements and benefits, while walking through some examples of various software technologies with the goal of producing a crisp definition.


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The Open Daylight Project: An Open Source path to a Unified SDN ControllerWednesday, June 12 • 12:20 - 1:10Over the past few years a growing number of SDN controllers of various capabilities have emerged both from the commercial industry, as well as from the academic community. Many of these offerings have been offered as open source directly, while some are cut-down versions of “enterprise class” editions of commercial controllers. What has resulted is an industry fragmented with truly few differentiating “core” features. These include com-mon north-bound programmable APIs, and south-bound protocol connec-tors such as OpenFlow, I2RS, Netconf or PCE-P. To this end, the industry has come together to create and nurture a single “base” controller containing infrastructure that is common to all of these various offerings, that also offers a single, common north-bound API to which applications can program to, as well as common south-bound plug-ins to industry standard protocols. These north and south-bound interfaces are created in a plugable architecture fos-tering future extension either in the freely available open source version, or as part of “enterprise” packages offered commercially. This approach has the distinct advantage of pushing the technological envelope in areas other than the base controller functionality such as “applications” that consume or utilize basic functions exposed and managed by a controller.

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Storage Plumbing Session to replace VDi track Session :fCoE Direct End-node to End-node (aka fCoE Vn2Vn)Tuesday, June 11 • 3:20 - 4:10A new concept has just been accepted for standardized in the Fibre Channel (T11) standards committee; it is called FCoE VN2VN (aka Direct End-Node to End-Node). The FCoE standard which specifies the encapsulation of Fi-bre Channel frames into Ethernet Frames is being extended to permit FCoE connections Directly between FC/FCoE End-Nodes. The tutorial will show the Fundamentals of the extended FCoE concept that permits it to operate without FC switches or FCoE Switches (aka FCF) and will describe how it might be exploited in Small, Medium or Enterprise Data Center environ-ments -- including the “Cloud” IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) provider environments.

How Virtual Desktop infrastructure Keeps up with ioPS Joneses: a technical look at the union of VDi and SSDsTuesday, June 11 • 4:20 - 5:10Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is a compelling business proposition for many enterprise IT departments, but one of the big VDI implementation is-sues results from storage IO bottleneck. While IOPS demand is moderate during average or steady-state conditions, recurring processes such as boot storms, anti-virus scans and VM administrative tasks spike IOPS demand from 10 to 1,000+ times the average. Swapna Yasarapu will dive into the technical details of implementing an SSD solution to counter the storage bot-tleneck issues that can hinder successful VDI implementation, and deliver insights and use cases to storage professionals. Yasarapu will walk through particular SSD implementations and how the SSD approach compares with spinning discs, providing clear answers to how virtualized latency can be mitigated through SSD implementation.VirtualiZation

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Solid State of Affairs: Benefits and Challenges of SSDs in Virtualized DatacentersWednesday, June 12 • 8:30 - 9:20A lot of industry buzz surrounds the value of SSDs. New flash-based products have entered the server and storage market in the past few years. Indeed, flash storage can do wonders for critical virtualized applications. However, most vSphere admins and CIOs are still on the sidelines, not yet sure of the value of adding them to vSphere environments. The key questions being asked by all of us are: how can I evaluate the benefit of SSDs to _my_ datacen-ter and is the cost justified? Our experience has shown that SSDs are not always a silver bullet and different products do well for different workloads. This motivates new tools for predictive benefit analysis prior to purchase. An experienced vSphere datacenter architect involved in flash storage deploy-ments along with the tech lead behind VMware’s own Swap-to-SSD, Storage DRS and Storage I/O Control features will share their experiences working with SSDs in virtualization systems. They will also demonstrate easy tools and techniques for precise prediction of SSD benefits, choosing the best-fit vendor/solution and precision-targeting SSDs within a given datacenter. SSDs are here to stay: let’s use them to super-charge our vSphere datacenters while keeping costs low and clients happy.

Virtual Storage in a Vmware Evaluation EnvironmentWednesday, June 12 • 9:25 - 10:15SANBlaze Virtual Storage device fully implement the VMWare VAAI extensions enabling instantaneous snapshots, virtualized de-duplication and accelerated migration, making Emulated Storage an ideal tool for performance and capac-ity planning in a Virtualized environment. This talk will cover using virtualized storage as a container for guest machines demonstrating the instantaneous clone capabilities, performance testing, boot storm testing and de-duplication. A fully functional Windows guest will be created in less than 5 seconds using less than 2MB of storage, demonstrating the scalability capabilities inherent in a virtualized storage testing and capacity planning environment.


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The world of digital content grows exponentially every day. SanDisk helps companies and consumers capture, share, preserve and access that content from the data center all the way to the digital camera. That adds up to more than two million flash memory products produced at our world-class manufacturing facilities on a daily basis. It’s all part of delivering on our mission to enrich people’s lives through digital storage anytime, anywhere.

Spectra Logic designs and manufactures simple, reliable and scalable storage solutions to store, backup, archive and protect data. Our people, processes and technologies deliver a future-proof architecture to address the problems of data growth, costs, security, storage efficiency, tiering and reliability.

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Avere Systems brings to the market NAS Optimization solutions designed specifically to scale performance and capacity separately and take advantage of new storage media using real-time tiering. Avere’s FXT Series Edge filers allow organizations to achieve unlimited application performance scaling, free applications from the confines of the data center by eliminating latency and cut storage costs by more than half.

The Easy Computing Company’s business and mission is making multi-user computers easier to use. Only by making them easier to use, and thus less costly to use, can they bring the full benefits of computerization to small and medium sized businesses and other entities. They believe that the Multi-Valued database model is an essential component of our mission, because it provides core technologies which can significantly reduce the costs of the software applications.

Enterprise-wide discovery is now a reality. Index Engines patented technology allows unfettered access to current and historical data. Leverage our industry leading speed and scalability to find and manage volumes of previously inaccessible, stored information. Intelligent business decisions are driven by insight into electronic data assets unlocked with Index Engines.

Intel is a world leader in computing innovation. The company designs and builds the essential technologies that serve as the foundation for the world’s computing devices. Additional information about Intel is available at newsroom.intel.com and blogs.intel.com.

SwiftTest is the leading provider of performance and functional testing solutions to the Storage Equipment Manufacturer industry, serving all major vendors as well as many storage start-ups. SwiftTest provides a comprehensive and easy-to-use high performance test platform that helps vendors bring products to market faster and at lower cost.

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The SCSI Trade Association was established in 1995 to provide a focal point for members to communicate the benefits of SCSI to the industry. STA promotes the understanding and use of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) technology and influences the evolution of SAS standards to meet future storage industry needs.

The Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) is a mutual benefit non-profit international organization of manufacturers, system integrators, developers, vendors, industry professionals and end users. The FCIA is committed to delivering a broad base of Fibre Channel infrastructure technology to support a wide array of applications within the mass storage and IT-based arenas.

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SDCSANTA CLARA, 2013

STORAGE DEVELOPER CONFERENCE

sAve The DATe!

mark your calendars for Snia’s Storage Developer Conference taking place here at the Hyatt regency Santa

Clara on September 16 - 19, 2013.

Visit www.storagedeveloper.org for more information.

full conference guide - snia

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