2016 Proceedings
09:30 AM to 01:00 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
PreConference Seminar C: Persistent Memory
Introduction to Persistent System Memory - Jonathan Hinkle, Sr Research Staff Member, Lenovo
NVDIMMs: The Go-To Technology for Boosting Application Performance - Arthur Sainio, Director Product Marketing, SMART Modular Technologies
Software Defined Memory for Hybrid DRAM and Flash Solutions - Maher Amer, CTO, Diablo Technologies
Lightweight User-Mode File Systems for Storage Class Memory - Yuangang Wang, Advanced Research Engineer, Huawei
ThyNVM - Software-Transparent Crash Consistency for Persistent Memory - Onur Mutlu, Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University
PreConference Seminar D: Flash Storage Networking
Networked Flash Storage Overview - Rob Davis, VP Storage Technology, Mellanox Technologies
How Networking Affects Flash Storage Systems - Gunneswara Marripudi, Principal Software Architect, and Ilker Cebeli, Senior Director Product Planning, Samsung Semiconductor
Ethernet Networked Flash Storage - J Metz, Office of the CTO, Cisco Data Center Group
InfiniBand Networked Flash Storage - Motti Beck, Sr Director Enterprise Market Development, Mellanox Technologies
PCIe Networked NVM Storage - Peter Onufryk, Fellow NVM Solutions, Microsemi
Fibre Channel Networked Flash Storage - Scott Kipp, Director Engineering, Brocade Communications
Networks in the Time of Flash - Jim O'Reilly, Independent Consultant
02:00 PM to 06:00 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
PreConference Seminar H: Designing SSD Controllers
Introduction - Erich Haratsch, Engineering Director, Seagate
NAND Flash Basics and Error Characteristics - Thomas Parnell, Research Staff Member, IBM Laboratories - Zurich
NAND Flash Media Management Algorithms - Erich Haratsch, Engineering Director, Seagate
LDPC Codes: Principles and Implementation Aspects - Osso Vahabzadeh, Staff Design Engineer, Texas LDPC
ASIC/Merchant Chip-Based Flash Controllers - Jeff Yang, Principal Engineer, Silicon Motion
FPGAs in Flash Controller Applications - David McIntyre, Principal Consultant, DS McIntyre Consulting
09:30 AM to 10:35 AM
No search results found in this timeslot.
OPEN Session 101-A: Mobile Applications (Applications Track)
PCIe NVMe* SSD in Smaller Form Factors - Becky Loop, Sr Principal Engineer, Intel, and Zhiping Yang, Storage Architect, Google
OPEN Session 101-B: Flash Memory Meets Film's Rising Capture/Content Requirements (Media/Entertainment Track)
Solving big data set problems - Mike Schmit, Manager Digital Video Software, AMD
Flash Memory Meets Film's Rising Capture/ Content Requirements - Jim Douglas, Workstation Product Manager, HP
Introduction to "CFX" - Next Generation High-Performance Media Based on PCIe and NVMe - Shahar Noy, Sr Director Strategic Marketing/Business Development, Micron
Session U-1: Annual Update on Flash Technology (Flash Technology Track)
Flash Technology: Annual Update - Jim Handy, Objective Analysis
Session IT-1: Accelerating Flash Storage with Open Source RDMA (Fabrics Track)
Accelerating Flash Storage with Open Source RDMA - Rob Davis, VP, Mellanox Technologies
09:30 AM to 11:50 AM
No search results found in this timeslot.
Forum A-11: NVMe and PCIe SSDs Part 1 (PCIe Storage Track)
NVM Express* Past, Present, and Future - Amber Huffman, Fellow/Director Storage Interfaces, Intel
Forum B-11: Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion, Part 1 (Architectures Track)
An NVMe SSD Architecture for Accelerating Big Data Analytics - Bharadwaj Pudipeddi, CTO/Head Engineering, NVXL Technology
SSD Architectures to Ensure Security and Performance - Jon Haswell, Sr Director Firmware Development, Micron
Machine Learning Techniques for Improving Flash Endurance - Conor Ryan, CTO, NVMdurance
New Approaches to Keeping Write Amplification from Reducing Flash Lifetime - Tim Canepa, Director Architecture, Seagate
Forum C-11: Enterprise SSDs (SSDs Track)
How Accelerating SSD Capacities Will Revolutionize Enterprise Storage - Anders Graham, Product Marketing, Samsung
A Comprehensive Approach to Flash-SSD Quality Management for Enterprise - Jung Yoon, Sr Technical Staff Member, IBM
An Examination of User Workloads - Eden Kim, CEO, Calypso Systems
I/O Pattern based Optimization in SSD - Xiangfeng Lu, CTO, Memblaze
Delivering on NoSQL Database Performance Requirements with NVMe SSDs - Vijay Balakrishnan, Principal Engineer, Samsung
Designing SSD Firmware Overlays to Reduce Performance Impact - Tomislav Miladinovic, Firmware Design Engineer, Unigen
Forum D-11: Flash in Data Centers (Data Centers Track)
Storage Class Memory and Operational Databases: Real-World Results - Brian Bulkowski, CTO/Founder, Aerospike, "NVMe
Why NVMe Will Replace SATA SSDs in the Data Center - Michael Smullen, SSD Product Marketing Manager, Samsung Semiconductor
The Winning Combination is: FC-NVMe - Curt Beckmann, Principal Product Architect, Brocade
Intent Defined Storage for Container Era - Ashok Rajagopalan, Head Product Management, Datera
Developing a Server OS Drive for Big Data and Cloud Storage - CC Wu, Executive VP, Innodisk
OPEN Forum G-11: Enterprise Applications Part 1 (Enterprise Applications Track)
Why Does a Major Broadcasting Network In The Middle East Choose Flash Memory for Their Workflow? - Stephanie Brewer, Customer Advocate, AND Kurt Kuckein, Director of Product Management, Data Direct Networks
McKesson mixes SSDs with HDDS for Optimnal Performance and ROI - Mark Adams, Director Product Marketing/Business Strategy, Hitachi Data Systems and Dan King, Director ITS, Wellmark -
How to Fund Flash Storage - Mark Adams, Director Product Marketing/Business Strategy, Hitachi Data Systems and Dan King, Director ITS, Wellmark
All-Flash Storage and OpenStack Drive Innovation FICO's Next Generation Data Center - Derek Leslie, NetApp
Extreme Performance and the Cloud - Steve Knipple, Principal Consultant, Cloud Shift Advisors, AND Mark Camillo, SVP/CTO, NWEA
OPEN Forum N-11: Flash Growth and Opportunity in China (Business Track)
All Flash Micro NAS Project at HDU - Chris Tsu, Professor, Hangzhou Dianzi University
NVMe SSD Applications in China Datacenter - Taile Zhang, VP, Memblaze
Flash, Any Time, Everywhere - Cui Hao, Chief Editor, WatchStor
Exploiting the Minipage-level Mapping to Solve the Size Discrepancy of I/O Requests and Flash Pages - Wu Fei, Teacher, Huazhong University (China)
Logic Based ReRAM Assisted by Self-Adaptive Circuit for Embedded Applications - Yinyin Lin, Professor, Fudan University (China)
How to reduct flash storage system write amplification - Mingchang Wei, Research Engineer, Huawei
10:45 AM to 11:50 AM
No search results found in this timeslot.
OPEN Session 102-A: Data Recovery of SSDs (Data Recovery Track)
SSD Impact on Data Recovery for Enterprise Storage - Steve Hruska, Hardware R&D Engineer, Kroll OnTrack
The Market Opportunity of Solving Data Erasure on SSD - Michael Waksman, CEO, Jetico
Erasing an SSD is Easy and Fast! Then why is it so hard to eliminate one file? - Jon Tanguy, Sr Technical Marketing Engineer, Micron
OPEN Session 102-B: Flash Demand Grows with HDR/UHD 4K Films (Media/Entertainment Track)
Video Storage Classifications - The Need for Standardization and Collaboration - Chris Haeffner, Manager Product Development/Integration, Other World Computing
OPEN Session 102-C: How Flash-Based Storage Performs on Real Applications (Testing Track)
How Flash-Based Storage Performs on Real Applications - Dennis Martin, President, Demartek
Session IT-2: Flash Memory: Key to Efficient Real-Time Analysis of Big Data (Enterprise Applications Track)
Flash Memory: Key to Efficient Real-Time Analysis of Big Data - Andy Walls, IBM Fellow/Distinguished Engineer, IBM
12:30 PM to 01:00 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
02:40 PM to 03:10 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
03:10 PM to 03:40 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
03:40 PM to 04:10 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
04:20 PM to 05:25 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
OPEN Session 103-A: Security in a Flash! (Security Track)
Introduction - Michael Willett, VP Marketing, Drive Trust Alliance; Mike McKean, VP Product Solutions, Fhoosh
Security Beyond The SED - Robert Wann, CEO, Enova Technology
Every Product is a Security Product - Monty Forehand, Security Technologist/Product Security Officer, Seagate Technology
Self-Encrypting Storage: Simplest Security for Stored Data - Michael Willett and Bob Thibadeau, VP Marketing and CEO, Drive Trust Alliance
Industrial Copy Protection by Secure Storage-Devices - Hubertus Grobbel, Head Security Business Unit, Swissbit
OPEN Session 103-B: Flash Storage and Film Production in the Cloud (Media/Entertainment Track)
Introduction - Moderator: Pallab Chatterjee, Editor in Chief, M&E Technologies
Focusing on Workflow Performance, Not Storage - Andy Warman, Director Product Line Management Servers/Storage, Harmonic
Right Data, Right Place, Right Price - Dave Frederick, Sr Director Product Marketing, Quantum
SSD Trends for Film Production in the Cloud - Chris Marsh, Product Marketing Manager, Western Digital
Session U-3: Annual Update on Flash Controllers (Controllers Track)
Flash Controller Technology - Andy Tomlin, CTO, DevicePros
Session IT-3: Making New Storage-Class Memory Technologies Easier to Adopt (Persistent Memory Track)
Making New Storage-Class Memory Technologies Easier to Adopt - Lance Smith, CEO, Primary Data
04:20 PM to 06:45 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
Forum B-12: Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion, Part 2 (sponsored by CNEX Laboratories) (Architectures Track)
Storage Controller Technologies for Next Generation Non-Volatile Memories - Hanan Weingarten, Sr Director, Broadcom
Employing ECCs via Overprovisioning to Improve Flash Reliability – A New, Cost Efficient Approach - Stella Achtenberg, Sr Engineer, Western Digital
Open-Channel SSDs and Host-Based FTLs - Ronnie Huang, VP Engineering, CNEX Labs
How NVMe and 3D XPoint Will Create a New Data Center Architecture - Emilio Billi, CEO, A3Cube
Forum C-12: SSD Technology (SSDs Track)
Securing the SSDs - NVMe Controller Encryption - Radjendirane Codandaramane, Manager Applications, Microsemi
Validating Analytic Write Amplification Models - Tom McCormick, Chief Engineer/Technologist, Swissbit
Multi-Stream Wriet SSD: Increasing SSD Performance and Lifetime with Multi-Stream Technology - Changho Choi, Principal Engineer, Samsung
Testing Controller Memory Buffer Performance in an NVM Express SSD - Ramyakanth Edupuganti, Sr Product Research Engineer, Microsemi
Standards for Improving SSD Performance and Endurance - Bill Martin, SSD IO Standards, Samsung Semiconductor
Forum D-12: Enterprise Storage Design Part 1 (Enterprise StorageTrack)
Intro - Rob Peglar, Sr VP/CTO, Symbolic IO
Digital Transformation: The Shift To Cloud First - Derek Leslie, Principal Product Manager, NetApp SolidFire
All-Flash Data Center Emerging Use Cases - Mark Adams, Product Marketing Manager, Hitachi Data Systems
Making All Flash Data Centers a Reality - Nick Triantos, Storage Architect, Nimble Storage
Using SSDs Efficiently within a Scale-Out Software-Defined Storage Framework - Sudhakar Mungamoori, VP Customer Success/Sales Engineering, Formation Data Systems
Forum S-12: Flash and Software-Defined Storage (Software-Defined Storage Track)
DRBD SDS - Open Source Software defined Storage for Block IO - Appliances and Cloud - Philipp Reisner, CTO, Linbit
The Impact of SSDs on Software Defined Storage - Barbara Murphy, VP Marketing, weka.io
Flash in a Software Defined Storage World - Priyadarshi Prasad, Sr Director Product Management, Atlantis Computing
Implementing Storage Abstraction in Existing Legacy Infrastructure - Farid Yavari, VP, FalconStor Software
Optimizing Software-Defined Storage for Flash Memory - Avraham ("Posa") Meir, Chief Scientist, Elastifile
04:30 PM to 06:45 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
Forum A-12: NVMe and PCIe SSDs Part 2 (PCIe Storage Track)
Part 3 - NVMe Drivers – Current Status and Future Expectations - Uma Parepalli, Firmware Architect, SK Hynix Memory Solutions
Part 4 – Lessons Learned Deploying NVMe in Real Systems - Tom Heil, Sr Systems Architect, Broadcom Hoff, Director Product Management, Broadcom
OPEN Forum G-12: Enterprise Applications Part 2 (Enterprise Applications Track)
New Era of Enterprise Storage: How OpEx is Replacing CapEx - Nelson Nahum, CEO, Zadara Storage
Flash Storage Drives a Better Bottom Line - Ivan Iannaccone, Product Line Manager, HPE
Keep Pace in the Cognitive Era - Mike Kuhn, VP Flash Systems, IBM
Increase Tier 1 Application Performance, Availability, and Flexibility While Reducing Cost - Ibby Rahmani, Director Product Marketing, Datacore Software
05:35 PM to 06:45 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
OPEN Session 104-A: Privacy Versus (In)security: Who Should Win and Why Between Apple and the FBI? (Security Track)
Panel - Bob Thibadeau, Chairman/CEO, Drive Trust Alliance - Derrick Donnelly, CTO, BlackBag Technologies - Clifford Neuman, Director, Center for Computer Systems Security, University of Southern California - Vijay Ahuja, President, Cipher Solutions
OPEN Session 104-B: Film Storage When the Film Budget Is Yours (Media/Entertainment Track)
Keeping Content out of Harm's Way - Chris Bross, CTO, DriveSavers Data Recovery
Session U-4: Annual Update on Emerging Memory Technologies (New TechnologiesTrack)
Emerging Memories - Seshuhabu Desu, CTO, 4DS
09:30 AM to 10:35 AM
No search results found in this timeslot.
OPEN Session 201-A: Applying New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies (New Technologies Track)
Novel Recognition System using XP-ReRAM - Haruhiko Terada, Designer, Sony
ALL MRAM NVMe SSD - It is Fast! - Terry Hulett, VP/GM System Solutions
OPEN Session 201-D: Why Flash Should Be Used for Every Workload (Enterpries Applications Track)
Why Flash Should Be Used for Every Workload - Marc Staimer, President, Dragon Slayer Consulting
09:30 AM to 11:50 AM
No search results found in this timeslot.
Forum E-21: Controllers and Flash Technology Part 1 (Controllers Track)
Introduction - Erich Haratsch, Engineering Director, Seagate
Controller IC Evaluation of High Radix Parity Check Code - Oliver Hambrey, Research Engineer, SIGLEAD Europe
High-Throughput LDPC Solution for Reliable and High Performance SSD - Jiangli Zhu, Principal Engineer, VIA Technologies
Ultra High Throughput ECC for SSD - Yuluen Wang, Sr Engineer, Silicon Motion
Compression: Making Flash (Even) Cheaper - Thomas Parnell, Research Staff Member, IBM Research - Zurich
Advanced Controller Technology for 3D NAND Flash - Wei Lin, System Architect, Phison Electronic
OPEN Forum G-21: Enterprise Applications Part 3 (Enterprise Applications Track)
Implementing a Follow-the-Sun DB - Scott Harvey, VP Engineering, Atmosera
Memory Performance with Shared Flash - Gurmeet Goindi, Technical Product Strategist - Exadata, Oracle
Taking Multiple PCIe SSDs and NVMe to Performance Extremes - Richard Leonarz, Sr Marketing Manager, Samsung Electronics America
Customer Success - SF 49ers and Levi's Stadium - Raj Das, VP Business Development, Violin Memory
Are You Ready for the Digital Transformation? - Chris Tsilipounidakis, Product Marketing Manager, Tegile Systems
Forum D-21: Enterprise Storage Design Part 2 (Enterprise Storage Track)
Extend the Life of Your SAN with Flash - Andrew Flint, VP Marketing, IOFabric
All Flash Storage Sparing to Improve Endurance - Eduardo Duarte, Product Line Manager, HPE
An FPGA Based Enterprise SSD REference Design - Amit Saxena, VP Engineering, Mobiveil
Guaranteeing Enterprise Class Availability in a Flash Environment - Phill Gilbert, Product Line Manager, HPE
Forum K-21: Open-Source Software and Flash Memory (sponsored by CNEX Laboratories) (Software Track)
Open Source Software: How the Flash Industry Can Use It Effectively - Nithya Ruff, Director Open Source Strategy Office, Western Digital
Building High Performance, High Capacity, Cost-Efficient All-Flash Cloud Storage System with Ceph - Jian Zhang, Sr Software Engineer, Intel, Jack Zhang, Sr Solution Architect, Intel, AND Yuan Zhou, Sr Software Engineer, Intel
Improving Ceph Performance while Reducing Costs - Rick Stehno, Sr Database Performance Architect, Seagate
Ceph Meets NVMe - All-Flash Ceph! - Gunna Marripudi, Principal Architect, Samsung, and Brent Compton, Director Storage, Red Hat
LightNVM Brings Open-Channel SSDs to the Linux Kernel - Matias Bjorling, Member Technical Staff, CNEX Labs
Ceph-High Performance Without High Costs - Allen Samuels, Engineering Fellow, Western Digital
Forum Q-21: Flash in Big Data and Analytics (Data Management Track)
Unified Memory for HPC and Big Data - Axel Kloth, CEO, SSRLabs
Accelerating Business Analytics with Flash Storage and FPGAs - Satoru Watanabe, Research Engineer, Hitachi
Forum R-21: Persistent Memory - Beyond Flash (sponsored by SNIA SSSI) (Persistent Memory Track)
Introduction - Jim Ryan, SNIA/SSSI Chair and Manager, Intel - Jim Pappas, SNIA Vice-Chair and Director Initiative Marketing, Intel
Persistent Memory - Beyond Flash - Jim Pappas, SNIA Vice-Chair and Director Initiative Marketing, Intel
Building Datacenter Infrastructure Using Persistent Memory - Rob Peglar, VP Advanced Storage, Micron
Persistent Memory (PM) over Fabrics - Rob Davis, VP Storage Technology, Mellanox Technologies
New Software Architectures for Persistent Memory - Ken Gibson, Director NVM Software Architecture, Intel
Enabling Persistent Memory: The NVM Programming Model - Doug Voigt, Distinguished Technologist, HP Enterprise
Windows Persistent Memory Support - Neal Christensen, Principal Development Lead, Microsoft
Bringing Persistent Memory Technology to SAP Hana: Opportunities and Challenges - Zora Caklovic, Sr Director SAP HANA Product Management, SAP Labs, AND Oliver Rebholz, Development Manager, SAP HANA In-Memory Platform
10:45 AM to 11:50 AM
No search results found in this timeslot.
OPEN Session 202-A: Flash on the Memory Bus (New Technologies Track)
NVDIMM-X - Deliver DRAM performance at NAND Capacity - Mike Amidi, CEO, Xitore
DDR4 DIMM Devices With Hybrid DRAM & NVM For Big Data Performances At Low Cost - Xiaobing Lee, Principal Engineer, Huawei
Session 202-C: Flash Arrays Part 2 (Enterprise Storage Track)
Improving All Flash Array Performance with Data Compression Accelerators - Juan Deaton, Research Scientist/Engineer, Comtech AHA
Defining Requirements for a Successful All-Flash Datacenter - Aravindan Gopalakrishnan, Product Line Manager, HPE
03:00 PM to 03:30 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
03:40 PM to 04:10 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
04:50 PM to 05:55 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
OPEN Session 203-A: RRAM (New Technologies Track)
Crossbar RRAM - A New Era of Storage Innovation for a Content Rich World - Wei Lu, Chief Scientist/Co-Founder, Crossbar
RRAM Status and Forecast - Mark Webb, President, MKW Ventures
OPEN Session 203-B: Embedded Applications Part 1 (Embedded Systems Track)
Optimizing Embedded SSDs for Performance and Beyond Prevention-Report-Analysis - Crystal Chang, Sr Director Strategic Marketing Development, ATP Electronics
Case for Industrial Embedded Flash Storage - Steve Larrivee, VP Sales/Marketing, Cactus Technologies
Embedded Applications - How to Predict Failure Before They Happen for Embedded Applications - Thomas Hsiao, Sr Manager Embedded Business, Phison Electronic
Lifetime Estimation and Health Monitoring - Axel Mehnert, VP Marketing, Hyperstone
Session 203-C: Flash in Cloud Computing (Enterprise Storage Track)
Evolution of Rack Scale Architecture Storage - Murugusamy (Sammy) Nachimuthu, Principal Engineer, Intel
Flash in a Hybrid Cloud World - Steve Knipple, Principal Consultant, Cloud Shift Advisors
OPEN Session 203-E: How Flash Is a Key to Augmented Reality on Wearables (Wearables Track)
Panel - NameDaryl Sartain, Director Virtual Reality/Alliances, AMD - Chris Croteau, Director Strategic Business Development, Intel - Soulaiman Itani, CTO/Founder, Atheer - Rick Tewell, Sr VP System Solutions, VeriSilicon - Manuel Gutierrez-Novelo, CTO, ImmersiON-VRelia
Session IT-7: Opportunities from Our Compute, Network, and Storage Inflection Points (Enterprise Storage Track)
Opportunities from Our Compute, Network, and Storage Inflection Points - Rob Peglar, Sr VP/CTO, Symbolic IO
04:50 PM to 07:15 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
Forum A-22: PCIe/NVMe Storage (PCIe StorageTrack)
FPGA Implementation of Erasure Codes for NVMe based JBOFs - Manoj Roge, Director Wired and Data Center Solutions, Xilinx,
Forum C-22: SSD Concepts (SSDs Track)
Write-hotness Aware Retention Management: Efficient Hot/Cold Data Partitioning for SSDs - Saugata Ghose, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Carnegie-Mellon University
Management Schemes of Hybrid SSDs with SLC/MLC Flash Memory: A Survey - Ahmed Alsalibi, Graduate Student, University of Science - Malaysia (USM)
Forum E-22: Controllers and Flash Technology Part 2: Error Correcting Codes (Controllers Track)
Online Flash Channel Modeling and Its Applications - Yixin Luo, Graduate Student, Carnegie-Mellon University
Media Management for High Density NAND Flash Memories - Erich Haratsch, Engineering Director, Seagate
LDPC Code Rate Adaptation Methods for NAND Flash - Peter Graumann, Director, Microsemi
Optimized Graph-Based Codes For Modern Flash Memories - Homa Esfahanizadeh, Joing work with Ahmed Hareedy and Lara Dolecek, LORIS Lab, Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA
Forum F-22: SSD Testing (Testing Track)
Large-Scale Study of In-The-Field Flash Failures - Onur Mutlu, Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University
NVMe Performance – Local vs. Remote - Gunna Marripudi, Principal Architect, Samsung Semiconductor, and Oscar Pinto, Sr Staff Storage Architect, Samsung Semiconductor
Comparison of NAND Flash Functionality with Internal Probing and Waveform Analysis - Tarek Alhajj, Architect Engineering Solutions Group, TechInsights
High Volume/High Mix SSD Production Test - Kevin Dumas, Product Manager, Teradyne
Lifecycle Testing for SSD Production - Marilyn Kushnick, Engineer, Advantest
Forum M-22: 3-D Flash (New Technologies Track)
TLC is the New MLC - Kevin Kilbuck, Marketing Director, Micron
06:10 PM to 07:15 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
OPEN Session 204-A: MRAM (New Technologies Track)
Avalanche Technology - Leader in pMTJ Solutions - Hamid Haidari, VP WW Sales/Business Development, Avalanche Technology
OPEN Session 204-B: Embedded Applications Part 2 (Embedded Systems Track)
How to Ruggedize an SSD - Chris Budd, Director Engineering, SMART High-Reliability Solutions
Memory Needs for Industrial Applications - Edward Chow, Product Line Director, Micron
Can Embedded Applications Utilize the Latest Flash Storage Technologies? - Grady Lambert, Sr Director Embedded, Swissbit
OPEN Session 204-D: Selecting the Right Flash Memory for Your Application (Enterprise Applications Track)
Nimble Storage - Dan Leary, VP Corporate Development, Nimble Storage
Accelerate Possible - Indroducing Pure Storage - Matt Kixmoeller, VP Products, Pure Storage
NetApp Flash Leadership and Innovation - Val Bercovici, CTO, NetApp SolidFire
All-flash Powered Applications - Josh Epstein, VP Global Marketing, Kaminario
Think And not Or. - Rob Commins, VP Marketing, Tegile
Session IT-8: Storage in Media and Entertainment: The Flash Advantage (Media/Entertainment Track)
Storage in Media and Entertainment: The Flash Advantage - Tom Coughlin, President, Coughlin Associates
09:30 AM to 10:35 AM
No search results found in this timeslot.
OPEN Session 301-A: Life Beyond Flash: New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies (New Technologies Track)
NRAM: High Performance, Highly Reliable Emerging Memory - Sheyang Ning, Graduate, Chuo University
Session 301-B: NVDIMMs: Powerful Persistent Memory Arrives in a Familiar Form (New Technologies Track)
Introduction - Jeff Chang, VP Marketing/Business Development, AgigA Tech
Persistent Memory Enablement Update - Alex Fuxa, Manager Persistent Memory Team, HPE
Windows Peristent Memory Support - Neal Christiansen, Principal Development Lead, Microsoft
OPEN Session 301-C: Intel-Micron 3D Xpoint(TM): The Next Generation Non-Volatile Memory (New Technologies Track)
Introduction - Dave McIntyre, Principal Consultant, DS McIntyre Consulting
3D XPoint Today: Any Change? - Jim Handy, Director/Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis
3D Xpoint™ Status and Forecast - Mark Webb, President, MKW Ventures
Challenges in Vertically Stackable Selectors for 3D Cross-Point Non Volatile Memories - NameMilind Weling, VP Electronic Applications, Intermolecular
Session 301-D: PCIe/NVMe Development Issues (PCIe Storage Track)
Introduction - Uma Parepalli, Firmware Architect, SK Hynix
Concurrent Support of NVMe Over RDMA Fabrics and Established Networked Block and File Storage - Asgeir Eriksson, CTO, Chelsio Communications
NVMe Enclosure Management and Dual Port Drive - Parag Maharana, Architect, Seagate
ASolution for Adding NVM_express storage to generic computers - Matthew Rackstein, Applications Engineer, Magm
New Data Protection Systems for NVMe SSD - Alan Wu, Sr Director, Memblaze
OPEN Session 301-E: Flash and Software-Defined Storage (continued) (Software-Defined Storage Track)
Flash + Software-Defined Storage = Path To The Hybrid Cloud - Jerome McFarland, Director Product Marketing, Elastifile
Persistent Memory (PM) for Big Data & Analytic - Kumar Prabhat, Sr Director Product/Business Development, Plexistor
Session 301-F: Performance Testing (Testing Track)
Storage Protocol Offload for Virtualized Workloads - Dennis Martin, President, Demartek
NAND Flash Status Prediction - Cloud Zeng, Sr Engineer, LiteOn NVM Labs
OPEN Session 301-G: High-Performance Flash Systems (Hardware Track)
State of the Art Performance in Flash Storage Arrays - Steve Cooper, CEO, One Stop Systems
Software-Defined Memory for At-scale and High-Performance Computing - Kurt Kuckein, Director Product Management, DataDirect Networks
Designing High-Performance AFAs for SMEs - Peter Maddocks, Director Product Management All-Flash Array Systems, Seagate Technology
Session 301-I: Consumer Applications (Applications Track)
Flash & Phones: Advanced Lab Data Recovery from Secure Mobile Devices - Will Delisi, Flash Recovery Engineer, DriveSavers
3-D NAND and UFS - Optimized Mobile Storage - Carla Christensen, Sr Product Planning Engineer, Micron
Consumer PCIe SSD - Higher Performance with Lower Cost - Larry Li, Project Manager, Phison Electronic
Session IT-9: TechTarget Reveals All…About the Enterprise All-Flash Array Market (Marketing Track)
TechTarget Reveals All...About the Enterprise All-Flash Array Market - Ken Male, General Manager, TechTarget Research Division
10:45 AM to 11:50 AM
No search results found in this timeslot.
OPEN Session 302-B: History Session: The Origins of Silicon Valley (History Track)
The Origins of Silicon Valley: Why and How It Happened Here - Paul Wesling, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
Session 302-D: PCIe/NVMe Extensions Part 1 (PCIe Storage Track)
Introduction - Uma Parepalli, Firmware Architect, SK Hynix
NVMe: Redefining the Hardware/Software Architecture - Jerome Gaysse, IP-Maker
High Performance FTL Architecture for PCIe/NVMe SSDs - Ying Tai, Sr Director, VIA Technologies
Prioritization in the Linux NVMe Block Layer - Jon Saunders, Applications Engineer, Microsemi
Session 302-F: Testing Issues - Part 1 (Testing Track)
Performance Assessment of an All-RRAM Solid State Drive Through a Cloud-Based Simulation Framework - Lorenzo Zuolo, Researcher, University of Ferrara (Italy)
Infrastructure Performance Analysis - Peter Murray, Product Evangelist, Virtual Instruments
Accelerating SSD and System Development with Test Automation - Andy Tomlin, Partner/CTO, DevicePros
Session 302-G: Which Interface Is King of the Hill? Should You Build Your All-Flash Array with SAS, SATA, or NVMe? (sponsored by STA, the SCSI Trade Association) (Standards Track)
Panel - Mohamad El-Batal, Sr Director Architecture, Seagate - Thomas Friend, Technology Director Industry Standards, Toshiba - Frederick Knight, Principal Standards Technologist, NetApp
Forum E-31: Flash Controller Design Options (Controllers Track)
Low-Error Floor Soft-Decision Finite Alphabet Iterative Decoders - Shiva Planjery, CEO, CodeLucida
False Decoding Probability (Detection) of BCH and LDPC Codes - Alessia Marelli, Staff Product Design Engineer, Microsemi
12:00 PM to 12:30 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
12:30 PM to 01:00 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
OPEN - Keynote 13
A New Era of Storage Innovation - George Minassian, CEO, Crossbar
01:00 PM to 01:30 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
03:30 PM to 04:45 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
Session 303-D: PCIe/NVMe Extensions Part 2 (PCIe Storage Track)
High Availability for Centralized NVMe - Zivan Ori, CEO, E8 Storage
Higher Performance - Lower Cost - Cameron Crandall, Sr Technology Manager, Kingston Digital, and Sumit Puri, VP Marketing, Liqid
Client PCIe/NVMe SSD with 3D NAND - Rick Huang, Product Marketing Manager, Silicon Motion
Unshackling PCIe SSDs using NVMe - Bhagirath Patel, Product Marketing Manager, Samsung Electronics America
OPEN Session 303-E: NVMe in Your Data Center: Who, What, Where, When, and Why? (sponsored by the Fibre Channel Industry Association - FCIA) (Data Centers Track)
Panel - Craig Carlson, Technologist/Office of the CTO, QLogic - Rob Peglar, Sr VP/CTO, Symbolic IO - Dave Minturn, Principal Engineer/Network SSD Storage Architect, Intel - Rupin Mohan, Director R&D/Chief Technologist (SAN), HPE - Greg Schulz, Founder/Sr Advisory Analyst, StorageIO
Session 303-F: Testing Issues Part 2 (Testing Track)
Flash Reliability in Production: The Expected and the Unexpected - Bianca Schroeder, Associate Professor, University of Toronto
Advanced Test Automation and Analytics - Derrill Sturgeon, CEO, Devicepros
OPEN Session 303-H: Automotive Applications (Applications Track)
Driver Assistance Pushes New Flash Functionalities - Anil Gupta, Technical Executive, Winbond
OPEN Session 303-I: VC Forum (General Track)
Panel - Wen Hsieh, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins - Matt Carbonara, Principal, Comcast Ventures - Angel Orrantia, Sr Director Business Development, SKTA Innopartners - Chris Rust, Founder/General Partner, Clear Ventures - Gaurav Tewari, Managing Director, Citigroup Ventures - Dong-Su Kim, VP, Samsung Ventures America
05:00 PM to 06:15 PM
No search results found in this timeslot.
OPEN Session 304-A: Flash and the Internet of Things (New Technologies Track)
Embedded Flash Storage for Industrial IoT - Chanson Lin, CEO, EmBestor Technology,
Session 304-D: PCIe/NVMe Fabrics (PCIe Storage Track)
NVMe over Fabrics - High Performance Flash Moves to Ethernet - John Kim, Director Storage Marketing, Mellanox
High Speed I/O processor for NVMe over Fabric (NVMEoF) - Patrice Couvert, Product Marketing, KALRAY
Reducing Latency and Improving Performance Consistency in NVMeOF - Parag Maharana, Architect, Seagate Technology, AND KR Kishore, System Architect, Pavilion Data Systems