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June 13, 2016

Welcome DSI Attendees,

On behalf of SNIA’s Board of Directors, Technical Council, and Staff, we welcome you to SNIA’s annual Data Storage Innovation Conference (DSI) for a great knowledge and networking experience.

Intended for IT decision-makers, technology implementers, and IT professionals who influence and support data storage innovation in production IT deployments, DSI will provide insights into where IT spend and priority is trending high including hyper-converged systems, all flash arrays, software defined storage, cloud storage, data and storage security, high-speed/low latency networks, and scale-out filesystems. Equally important is how storage management and data protection disciplines are evolving forward with the new infrastructure, hybrid computing, and ever-increasing amounts of data. Our 2 ½ day conference features over 80 presentation sessions between mainstage and break-out session tracks, covering trends, deployment blueprints, technology innovation, IT case studies, and best practices. Additionally, there are many opportunities to meet speakers, network with attendees, and speak with our sponsors and technology solution providers. Our conference features SNIA Tutorials, where the industry gets grounded in vendor neutral technology and know-how, that further enrich your career, your procurement discussions, and your company’s strategic directions. Download the conference application to your smartphone or tablet to manage your time.

On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, our morning agenda features five themed tracks to choose from. If you miss a session or can’t be in two places at the same time, don’t fret, all DSI session presentations are posted for DSI attendee download and future reference. Our Monday and Tuesday mainstage sessions will be kicked off by the SNIA leadership, followed by Camberley Bates of the Evaluator Group, who will guide us through the conference experience. SNIA extends a special thank you to our DSI event sponsors. Please visit their exhibits in the Innovation Showcase (expo), where we will provide complimentary lunches and evening receptions on Monday and Tuesday. Learn more about SNIA by talking with representatives from our many technology communities.

We value your input and experience - DSI evaluation surveys will be e-mailed to you at the end of each day, and the conference app can also capture your feedback. Enjoy the Conference.

David DaleChairman,SNIA Board of Directors

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Mark Carlson Chairman, SNIA Technical Council

Michael OrosExecutive Director,SNIA

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Wayne Adams Chairman Emeritus, SNIA Board of Directors

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SCHEDULE AT-A-GLANCEMonday, June 13, 2016Registration Opens .................................................7:30 amContinental Breakfast .............................7:30 am - 9:00 amBreakout Sessions ............................... 8:30 am - 12:20 pmLunch in Innovation Showcase .............12:20 pm - 1:40 pmGeneral Sessions ...................................1:40 pm - 5:05 pmReception in Innovation Showcase ......... 5:15 pm - 7:30 pm* Refreshments served during breaks

Tuesday, June 14, 2016Registration Opens .................................................7:30 amContinental Breakfast .............................7:30 am - 9:00 amBreakout Sessions ............................... 8:30 am - 12:20 pmLunch in Innovation Showcase .............12:20 pm - 1:40 pmGeneral Sessions ...................................1:40 pm - 5:05 pmReception in Innovation Showcase ......... 5:15 pm - 7:30 pm* Refreshments served during breaks

Wednesday, June 15, 2016Registration Opens .................................................7:30 amContinental Breakfast .............................7:30 am - 9:00 amBreakout Sessions ................................8:30 am - 12:20 pmConference Concludes .........................................12:20 pm

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INNOVATION SHOWCASE AND

LUNCHGENERALSESSIONS AND

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

BREAKOUT SESSIONS

BREAKFASTAND

REFRESHMENTS MEDIA AND ANALYST BRIEFING

ROOM

monday agenda - breakout sessions 3/etc

(Convene 1)Hyperconverged

(Convene 2)Cloud

(Synergy 1)Data Protection

(Synergy 5)Filesystems(Synergy 4)

8:30 - 9:10

Panel: Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) – Data Management Techniques

Examined

Moderator: Tom CoughlinPresident,

Coughlin Associates

Hyperconverged Infrastructures – What

They Can Do and Where They’re Going

Eric SlackSr. Analyst,

Evaluator Group

Beyond the Cloud: Space-based Data Storage

Scott SobhaniCo-founder & CEO,Cloud Constellation

Corporation

Intro to Data Protection-Backup to Tape, Disk & Beyond

Tom SasWorldwide Product Marketing Manager,

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Massively Scalable File Storage

Philippe NicolasAdvisor,OpenIO

9:15 - 9:55

Windows Interoperability Workshop

Christopher HertelSoftware Developer, Sr.

Program Manager,Dell/Compellent

Bringing the Benefits of Hyperconvergence to Secondary Storage

Nick HowellTech Evangelist,

Cohesity

Plotting Your Data Exit Before Entering the

Private Cloud

Fredrik ForslundDirector of Cloud and Data Center Erasure

Solutions,Blancco Technology

Group

Trends in Backup and Restoration Technologies

Jason IehlManager -

Systems Engineering,NetApp

The Tip of the Iceberg: The Coming Era of Open

Source Enterprise Storage

Michael DexterSenior Analyst,iXsystems, Inc

10:00 - 10:40

Object Drives: Simplifying the Storage

Stack

Mark CarlsonPrincipal Engineer, Industry Standards,

Toshiba

Maximizing Storage Density While

Conserving Valuable Rack Real Estate

Chaz StevensDirector of Marketing,

Aberdeen LLC

Storage in Combined Service/Product Data

Infrastructures

Craig DunwoodyCTO,

GraphStream Incorporated

New Fresh Storage Approach for New IT

Challenges

Laurent DenelCEO,OpenIO

Philippe NicolasAdvisor,OpenIO

Ceph For The Enterprise

David ByteSenior Technology

Strategist,SUSE

10:40 - 10:55 BreakInnovation Showcase

(Convene 1)Hyperconverged

(Convene 2)Cloud

(Synergy 1)Data Protection

(Synergy 5)Filesystems(Synergy 4)

10:55 - 11:35

Selecting Workloads for Hyperconverged vs Hyperscale Software-

Defined Storage

Eric CarterSenior Director of

Marketing,Hedvig

Dealing with the “Other” Latency: What the Cloud

Portends for IT Infra-structure

Lazarus VekiaridesCTO and Co-founder,

ClearSky Data

Protecting Data in a Big Data World

David ChapaCTO, Entrepreneur,

Thought Leader

High Performance Storage for Science

Workloads

Ulrich FuchsIT Service Manager,

CERN

11:40 - 12:20

Hyperconverged Infrastructure – Use Cases and Buyer’s Guide

Ibrahim RahmaniDirector of Product and

Solutions Marketing,DataCore

Why Analytics on Cloud Storage?

Padmavathy Madhusudhanan

Principal Consultant,Wipro Technologies

Radhakrishna SinguruPrincipal Architect,Wipro Technologies

Privacy vs Data Protection: The Impact of EU Data Protection

Legislation

Thomas RiveraSr. Technical Associate,

HDS

MarFS: A Scalable Near-POSIX File System over

Cloud Objects

Gary GriderHPC Division Leader,Los Alamos National

Laboratory

7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast

Distributed Storage(Convene 2)

Hot Topics(Synergy 5)

12:20 - 1:40 Lunch and Networking in the Innovation Showcase (Inspire 1-3)

Scale-out Searchable Storage for the

Cloud Age

Stress-free Backup Storage

Is This ‘The ONE’?

Intro to Compuverde – Software Defined Storage

Digital Transformation: Are You Ready?

4monday agenda - general sessions

1:40 - 1:55 Welcome Remarks David Dale, Chairman, SNIA Board of Directors

1:55 - 2:10 Where to Now? Considerations for Storage in the New Data CenterCamberley Bates, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, The Evaluator Group

2:10 - 2:50

Enterprise Architectures - The Pace Accelerates Camberley Bates, Managing Director and Senior Analyst, The Evaluator Group Since the 90’s, the storage architectures of SAN and NAS have been well understood and deployed with the focus on efficiency. With cloud-like applications, the massive scale of data and analytics and the introduction of solid state and HPC type applications hitting the data center, the architectures are changing, rapidly. It is a time of incredible change and opportunity for business and the IT staff that supports the change. Welcome to the new world of Enterprise Data Storage.

2:50 - 3:30

Storage Implications of Cognitive Computing Balint Fleischer, Chief Research Officer, Huawei Jian Li, Research Program Director and Technology Strategy Leader, Huawei Technologies In the era of data explosion in Cloud-Mobile convergence and Internet of Things, traditional architectures and storage systems will not be sufficient to support the transition of enterprises to cognitive analytics. The ever increasing data rates and the demand to reduce time to insights will require an integrated approach to data ingest, processing and storage to reduce end-to-end latency, much higher throughput, much better resource utilization, simplified manageability, and considerably lower energy usage to handle highly diversified analytics. Yet next-generation storage systems must also be smart about data content and application context in order to further improve application performance and user experience. A new software-defined storage system architecture offers the ability to tackle such challenges. It features seamless end-to-end data service of scalable performance, intelligent manageability, high energy efficiency, and enhanced user experience.

3:30 - 3:45 Break

3:45 - 4:25

A DNA-based Archival Storage System Luis Henrique Ceze, Torode Family Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Washington Demand for data storage is growing exponentially, but the capacity of existing storage media is not keeping up. Using DNA to archive data is an attractive possibility because it is extremely dense, with a raw limit of 1 exabyte/mm3 (10^9 GB/mm3), and long-lasting, with observed half-life of over 500 years.

This work presents an architecture for a DNA-based archival storage system. It is structured as a key-value store, and leverages common biochemical techniques to provide random access. We also propose a new encoding scheme that offers controllable redundancy, trading off reliability for density. We demonstrate feasibility, random access, and robustness of the proposed encoding with wet lab experiments. Finally, we highlight trends in biotechnology that indicate the impending practicality of DNA storage.

4:25 - 5:05

Preparing Applications for Persistent Memory Doug Voigt, Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise New persistent memory technologies promise to revolutionize the way applications store data. Many aspects of application data access will need to be revisited in order to get full advantage of these technologies. The journey will involve several new types of libraries and ultimately programming language changes. In this session we will use the concepts of the SNIA NVM Programming Model to explore the emerging landscape of persistent memory related software from an application evolution point of view.

5:15 - 7:30 Networking Reception in Innovation Showcase (Inspire 1-3)

7:00 - 9:00 Birds-of-a-Feather Meetings (See agenda board for details)

tuesday agenda - breakout sessions 5Big Data

(Synergy 5)Security

(Synergy 1)Cloud

(Convene 1)Storage Class Memory

(Convene 2)Storage Networks

(Synergy 4)

8:30 - 9:10

Big Data Essentials for IT Professionals

Sujee ManiyamFounder/Big Data

Principal,Elephant Scale

Intro to Encryption and Key Management: Why,

What and Where?

Eric HibbardCTO-Security and

Privacy,HDS

Introduction to OpenStack Cinder

Sean McGinnisSr. Principal Software

Engineer,Dell

Planning for Persistent Memory in the Data

Center

Sarah JelinekSenior SW Engineer,

Intel Corp

Benefits of 25, 40 and 50GbE Networks for

Ceph and Hyperconverged

Infrastructure

John KimDirector, Storage

Marketing,Mellanox Technologies

9:15 - 9:55

Scalable and Smart Storage Class Memory

Layer for Big Data

Robert GeigerChief Architect and VP

Engineering,Ampool Inc.

Multi-Vendor Key Management with KMIP

Tim HudsonCTO & Technical Director,

Cryptsoft

Deploying and Optimizing for Cloud

Storage Systems using Swift Simulator

Gen XuSoftware Engineer,

Intel

Prescriptive Analytics in the NVM Technology

Olga BuchoninaCEO,

ProstoLabs

Networking Flash Storage? –

Fibre Channel was Always the Answer

Mark JonesPresident, FCIA,

Director of Technical Marketing and Performance,

Broadcom Limited

10:00 - 10:40

Learn Your Alphabet - SRIOV, NPIV, RoCE, iWARP - to Pump Up Virtual Infrastructure

Performance

Dennis MartinPresident,Demartek

Implementing Stored-Data Encryption

Michael WillettVP Marketing,

Drive Trust Alliance

Swift Use Cases with SwiftStack

John DickinsonDirector of Technology,

SwiftStack

Emerging Non Volatile Memory and Spin Logic

Edward GrochowskiIndustry Consultant

Jim HandyGeneral Director,

Objective Analysis

Demonstrating NVMe Over Fabrics

Performance on Ethernet Fabrics

Rob DavisVP of Storage Technology,

Mellanox Technologies

10:40 - 10:55 BreakBig Data

(Synergy 5)Security

(Synergy 1)Cloud

(Convene 1)Filesystems(Convene 2)

Storage Networks (Synergy 4)

10:55 - 11:35

“Direct-to-Cloud” Technology Innovations that Open Up the Cloud

for Big Data App

Jay MigliaccioDirector of Cloud

Platforms & Services,Aspera, an IBM company

Self-Encrypting Storage for Consumers

Robert ThibadeauCEO,

Drive Trust Alliance

Storage, System and Infrastructure Deployment

Automation Using Open Source DevOp

Suman DebnathPrincipal Performance

Engineer,Broadcom

High Performance NAS, New design for New IT

Challenges

Pierre EvenouCEO,

Rozo Systems

Philippe NicolasAdvisor,

Rozo Systems

Storage Performance Tuning and Modeling

for Database over Fibre Channel

Kanwaljit KaurSoftware Engineer,

EMC

11:40 - 12:20

Solving the Framework-Storage Gap in Big Data

Haoyuan LiFounder and CEO,

Alluxio

Deploying Simple Secure Storage Systems

Chris AlloSecurity Engineering

Lead,Seagate

Cloud Bursting

Jim ThompsonSenior Systems

Engineer,Avere System

Are You Ready to Deploy In-Memory Computing

Applications?

Shaun WalshManaging Partner,

G2M Communications

Breaking the Limitations of Captive NVMe

Storage – 18M IOPs in 2u

Bob HansenV.P. Systems Architecture,

Apeiron Data Systems

7:30 - 8:30 Continental Breakfast

Hot Topics(Convene 2)

12:20 - 1:40 Lunch and Networking in the Innovation Showcase (Inspire 1-3)

Storage Performance(Synergy 5)

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1:40 - 1:55 SNIA Directions and Enabling IT Progress Michael Oros, Executive Director, SNIA

1:55 - 2:10 Welcome Back and What did We Learn from Day One? Camberley Bates, Managing Director and Sr. Analyst, The Evaluator Group

2:10 - 2:50

Achieving a Software Defined Cognitive Infrastructure for Oceans of Data Michelle Tidwell, SNIA Board Member, IBM Systems Storage, Business Line Manager, Software Defined Storage We’ve heard it said that data is the new natural resource. In today’s extremely dynamic, fast growing, and interconnected world, busi-nesses need more agile IT infrastructure to handle larger, faster, and growing variant types of Oceans of Data. The rise of cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures and the common practice of server virtualization for efficiency and flexibility requires storage infrastructure that is equally flexible to deliver, manage, and protect data with superior performance to keep businesses operational through any data disruption or disaster. This session will examine the IBM technologies that will help address the challenges and pain-points that IT professionals are experiencing to deliver dynamic insights for businesses and governments worldwide. Included in this session are examples of how clients today are deploying Flash, Object and Software Defined Storage to rapidly and effectively deliver monetization of data.

2:50 - 3:30

Panel: Cloud Computing and Storage, Will Enterprises be All-in and When? Moderator: Mark Carlson, Chairman, SNIA Technical Council, Principal Engineer, Industry Standards, Toshiba Panelists: Scott Sobhani, Cloud Constellation; Fredrik Forslund, Blancco Technology Group; Craig Dunwoody, GraphStream; Laz Vekiarides, ClearSky Data; Padmavathy Madhusudhanan, Wipro Cloud Computing and Storage/Data is maturing but where are Enterprises in the adoption of the cloud? Are they increasingly adopting public cloud? Are they setting up their own private clouds? How successful are they in doing so?This panel will discuss the issues these customers are facing and how various products, services and data management techniques are addressing those issues.

3:30 - 3:45 Break

3:45 - 4:25

Today’s Big Changes Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis Computer architecture is undergoing cataclysmic change. New flash tiers have been added to storage, and SSD caching has brought DAS back into servers. Storage Class Memory looms on the horizon, and with it come new storage protocols, new DIMM formats, and even new processor instructions. Meanwhile new chip technologies are phasing in, like 3D NAND flash and 3D XPoint Memory, new storage formats are being proposed including the Open-Channel SSD and Storage Intelligence, and all-flash storage is rapidly migrating into those applications that are not moving into the cloud. The future promises to bring us computing functions embedded within the memory array, learning systems permeating all aspects of computing, and adoption of architectures that are very different from today’s standard Von Neuman machines. In this presentation we will examine these technical changes and reflect on ways to avoid designing systems and software that limit our ability to migrate from today’s technologies to those of tomorrow.

4:25 - 5:05

Panel: Solid State Storage, Persistent Memory - Harvesting the Wheat from the Chaff Moderator: Wayne Adams, Chairman Emeritus, SNIA Board of Directors Panelists: Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis; Sarah Jelinek, SW Architect, Intel Corp; Peter Murray, Principal System Engineer, Virtual Instruments; Doug Voigt, Distinguished Technologist, Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Mat Young, VP Marketing, NetlistThis panel will discuss the trends of solid state storage, all flash arrays, and persistent memory. Panelist will touch on topics including application development to leverage unique solid state storage and persistent memory features, considerations for workloads and performance, and data replication/protection. Industry specifications and work such as the SNIA Performance Test Suite (PTS) and Non-Volatile Memory(NVM) will be positioned.

5:15 - 7:30 Networking Reception in Innovation Showcase (Inspire 1-3)

7:00 - 9:00 Birds-of-a-Feather Meetings (See agenda board for details)

tuesday agenda - general sessions

7wednesday agenda - breakout sessions

Capcity Optimization (Synergy 5)

Software Defined Storage(Convene 2)

Storage Performance(Convene 1)

Containers(Synergy 1)

Data Management(Synergy 4)

8:30 - 9:10

Advanced Data Reduction Concepts

Ronald Pagani Jr.Principal Consultant,

Open Technology Partners LLC;

SNIA Data Protection and Capacity Optimization

Committee

Storage on Your Terms: Deep Dive Into

Software-Defined Storage Technologies

Michael LetschinField CTO,

Nexenta Systems, Inc

Workload Acquisition for the Enterprise Data

Center

Peter MurrayPrincipal System

Engineer,Virtual Instruments

Efficient and Agile Persistent Storage for

Containers

Carlos CarreroSr. Principal Technical

Product Manager,Veritas

Chad Ryan ThibodeauProduct Manager,

Veritas

5 Ways to Convince Your CEO It’s Time for a

Storage Refresh

David SilesCTO,

DataGravity

9:15 - 9:55

How to Reduce Data Capacity in Object

Storage: Dedup and More

Dong In ShinCTO,

G-Cube Inc

Storage Virtualization in Modern Data Centers

Farid YavariVP of Technology,

FalconStor

Delivering Predictable Storage Performance in

a Virtualized Environment

Vince LaPagliaSenior Storage Engineer,

Pivot3

Cloud Computing Containerized –

Next Generation of Virtualization (Docker)

Suman DebnathPrincipal Performance

Engineer,Broadcom

Kanwaljit KaurSoftware Engineer

EMC

The Role of Tape Technology in Managing the Exponential Growth

of Cold Data

Osamu ShimizuResearch Engineer,

FUJIFILM Corporation

10:00 - 10:40

Imminent Challenges for the Cloud Storage Industry and the

Solution

Mark CarlsonPrincipal Engineer, Industry Standards,

ToshibaUdayan Singh

Head, SPE-Storage, Platform and Manageability,

Tata Consultant

SDS in Practice at Mission Community

Hospital

Ibrahim RahmaniDirector of Product and

Solutions,DataCore Software

100G iSCSI — A Bright Future for Ethernet Storage

Tom ReuConsulting Application

Engineer,Chelsio

Machine Learning Based Prescriptive Analytics for Data Center Networks

Hariharan KrishnaswamyPrincipal Engineer,

Dell

Embrace Hyper-scale Storage Architecture to

Drastically Increase Reliability and Lower

Costs

Sudhakar MungamooriVice President,

Customer Success and Sales Engineering,

Formation Data Systems

10:40 - 10:55 BreakGreen Storage

(Synergy 5)Storage Management

(Convene 2)Solid State Storage

(Convene 1)Protocols

(Synergy 1)Distributed Storage

(Synergy 4)

10:55 - 11:35

Power-Efficient Data Storage

Brian ZahnstecherPrincipal,PowerRox

Introduction to Swordfish:

Scalable Storage Management

Richelle AhlversPrincipal Storage

Management Architect,Broadcom

An Examination of User Workloads for SSDs

Eden KimCEO,

Calypso Testers

SAS: Today’s Fast and Flexible Storage Fabric

Rick KutcipalPresident, SCSI Trade

Association;Product Planning and

Architecture, Broadcom Limited

Identifying Performance Bottlenecks with

Real-World Applications and

Flash-Based Storage

Dennis MartinPresident,Demartek

11:40 - 12:20

Storage Systems Can Now Get ENERGY

STAR Labels and Why You Should Care

Dennis MartinPresident,Demartek

Best Practices for Enterprise-Wide Data

Protection and Compliance

Kurt KuckeinProduct Manager,

DataDirect Networks

Increasing SSD Performance and

Lifetime with Multi-stream Technology

Changho ChoiPrincipal Engineer,

Samsung Semiconductor, Inc

Under the Hood with NVMe over Fabrics

J MetzR&D Engineer, Cisco;SNIA Ethernet Storage

Forum

High Availability for Centralized NVMe

Zivan OriCEO and Co-founder,

E8 Storage

7:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast

12:20 Conference Concludes

Cloud(Synergy 5)

Hot Topics(Synergy 1)

The Storage Networking Industry Association is a not–for–profit global organization, made up of member companies spanning the global storage market. SNIA’s mission is to lead the storage industry worldwide in developing and promoting standards, technologies, and educational services to empower organizations in the management of information. To this end, the SNIA is uniquely committed to delivering standards, education, and services that will propel open storage networking solutions into the broader market. For more information, visit www.snia.org.

PLATINUM Who is Huawei?Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Driven by responsible operations, ongoing innovation, and open collaboration, we have established a competitive ICT portfolio of end-to-end solutions in telecom and enterprise networks, devices, and cloud computing. Our ICT solutions, products, and services are used in more than 170 countries and regions, serving over one-third of the world’s population. With more than 170,000 employees, Huawei is committed to enabling the future information society, and building a Better Connected World.What do we offer the world?We create value for our customers. Together with telecom carriers, Huawei has built over 1,500 networks, helping over one-third of the world’s population connect to the Internet. Together with our enterprise customers, we employ agile enterprise networks, including open cloud networks, to drive efficient operations and agile innovation across domains like Safe City, finance, transportation, and energy. With our smart devices and smartphones, we are improving people’s digital experience in work, life, and entertainment.

IBM, a globally integrated enterprise, operates in more than 170 countries. The IBM company develops and sells software, systems hardware and a broad range of infrastructure, cloud and consulting services. Today, IBM is focused on five growth initiatives - Cloud, Big Data and Analytics, Mobile, Social Business and Security. IBMers are working with customers around the world to apply the company’s business consulting, technology and R&D expertise to enable systems of engagement that deliver dynamic insights for businesses and governments worldwide.The world is awash in oceans of data. Data is the world’s new natural resource, and it is transforming all industries and professions. Our solutions are Cognitive. To realize the benefits of cognitive, companies must extract the insights trapped in oceans of data. Companies that store their data in a data center or in the Cloud, recognize their data is the cornerstone of cognitive business. IBM storage solutions enable the data infrastructure needed to efficiently capture, deliver, manage and protect data with superior performance and economics. Optimizing data storage with IBM allows your business to access the right data at the right time, providing the data foundation to propel your organization into the cognitive era with confidence.

GOLDFounded in 1991, Aberdeen LLC is a leading manufacturer of servers and storage. Delivering exceptional performance, unparalleled reliability and outstanding value, Aberdeen’s award winning products are deployed every day by IT departments in many of the world’s largest organizations. Visit our website www.aberdeeninc.com for detailed product information, including system configurators that make it easy for you to custom design your server and/or storage appliance either from the ground up or as a modification to one of our suggested configurations.

Chelsio is a recognized leader in high performance (10G/40G/100G) Ethernet adapters for networking and storage within virtualized enterprise data centers, public and private hyperscale clouds, and cluster computing environments. Chelsio’s innovative, fifth generation protocol acceleration technology (T5) powers its high performance 10G/40G Ethernet adapters with a clear roadmap for 25G/100G Ethernet solutions in 2016. The Chelsio Unified Wire fully offloads all protocol traffic, providing no-compromise performance with high packet processing capacity, sub-microsecond hardware latency and high bandwidth. Visit the company at www.chelsio.com.

Formation Data Systems’ mission is to help IT organizations realize the transformative benefits of modern storage technology. Formation has developed the revolutionary FormationOne™ Dynamic Storage Platform that combines the agility, flexibility and simplicity of public cloud web-scale approaches with the control, security and customization capabilities of private data-center storage. FormationOne has been built for Enterprise IT, SaaS application providers, and service providers, seeking ways to transform the agility and economics of their storage and data management environment. The platform is generally available. Go to formationds.com for more information.

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ASSOCIATION AND SNIA COMMUNITY SPONSORSThe Drive Trust Alliance was formed in 2015 by both Bright Plaza, Inc. and Coughlin Associates, Inc. to help promote awareness and adoption of self-encrypting drive technology in the consumer market under the stewardship of the world’s leading experts in storage technology.

The SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) educates markets, promotes and influences standards, and collaborates with other industry associations for success of solid state storage (SSS). SSSI areas of focus include SSS performance testing, NVM Programming Model advocacy, and Solid State Storage Data Recovery/Erase and NVDIMM Special Interest Groups.

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

INNOVATION SHOWCASE SPONSORSCaringo provides Searchable Storage for the Cloud Age. Offered as complete software, Swarm is flexible, massively scalable storage with automated tiering from filers, data management and ad-hoc search on any mix of standard hardware enabling storage that adapts to your business.

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