SNIA’s Storage Developers Conference 2010 is just a few weeks away

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is hosting the 7th Storage Developer Conference (SDC) in the Hyatt Regency in beautiful Santa Clara, CA (Silicon Valley) on the week of September 20th. As usual, Microsoft is underwriting the CIFS/SMB/SMB2 Plugfest, which is co-located with the SDC event.

For developers working with storage-related technologies, this event gathers a unique crowd and includes a rich agenda that you can find at https://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer2010/agenda2010.  All the key industry players are represented. It lists presentations from Atrato, Brocade, EMC, Facebook, Fujitsu America, Google, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Isilon Systems, LSI, Microsoft, NetApp, Novell, Oracle, Panasas, Quantum Corporation, TATA Consultancy Services, the Samba Team, Unisys, VMware, Wipro Technologies, Xiotech and many others.

It’s always worth reminding you that the SDC presentations are usually delivered to developers by the actual product development teams and frequently the actual developer of the technology is either delivering the presentation or is in the room to take questions. That kind of deep insight is not common in every conference out there.

Microsoft presentations this year include:

Presentation	Presenters	Presenters’ Title
MS-FSA: Describing wire visible behavior of Microsoft File Systems	Neal Christiansen	Principal Software Dev. Lead
Tutorial: “Green Storage is About More Than kWh!”	SW Worth	Sr. Standards Program Manager
NFS in Windows Platform	Roopesh Battepati Jeff Biseda	Principal Dev. Lead Sr. Software Design Engineer
Interoperability Tools for CIFS/SMB/SMB2	Paul Long Simon Sun	Technology Evangelist Software Design Engineer
Evaluating SMB2 Performance for Home Directory Workloads	David Kruse	Principal Dev. Lead
SMI-S Over WS- Management: A Progress Report	Josh Cohen	Sr. Program Manager
Unix Extensions for SMB2 - A Protocol Initiative	Tom Talpey	Architect
Analyzing Metadata Caching in the Windows SMB2 Client	Mathew George David Kruse	Sr. Software Dev. Engineer Principal Dev. Lead
BoF - Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager v.Next - Using SMI-S to Discover and Provision Storage in a Heterogeneous Environment for Virtualization Workloads	Hector Linares	Program Manager
Analyzing Large-scale Network Boot Workload for Windows	Qiang Wang	Development Lead

Registration is open at https://www.snia.org/events/storage-developer2010/registration and you should definitely plan to attend. If you are registered, leave a comment and let’s plan to meet when we get there!