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2015 Program At-a-Glance
Tuesday, December 1st - Preconference Seminars
8:00-8:30am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
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Seminar OS: Working with OpenStack (sponsored by Blue Box, an IBM company) |
Seminar CEPH: Ceph (sponsored by Seagate Technology) |
Seminar SDS: Software-Defined Storage (sponsored by Microsoft) |
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8:30-10:15am |
Session OS-1: Introduction |
Session CEPH-1: Introduction |
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10:15-10:30am |
Break |
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10:30am-Noon |
Session OS-2: Operations |
Session CEPH-2: Implementations |
Session SDS-2: Implementations |
Noon-1:00pm |
Lunch |
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1:00-1:30pm |
Keynote OS: Fireside Chat with Alex McDonald of SNIA/NetApp |
Keynote CEPH: Fireside Chat with Neil Levine of Red Hat |
Keynote SDS-2 Fireside Chat with Richard Probst of SAP |
1:30-2:45pm |
Session OS-3: Application Management |
Session CEPH-3: Ceph in Clusters and the Cloud |
Session SDS-3 Architectures |
2:45-3:00pm |
Break |
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3:00-4:00pm |
Session OS-4: Case Histories |
Session CEPH-4: Improving Ceph Performance |
Session SDS-4: Applications |
4:00-5:00pm |
Session OS-5: Future of OpenStack |
Session CEPH-5: Future of Ceph |
Sesssion SDS-5: Future of Software-Defined Storage |
5:00-5:15pm |
Break |
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5:15-6:15pm |
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6:30-7:30pm |
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Wednesday, December 2nd
8:00-8:30am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
Exhibits |
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8:30-9:45am |
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9:45-10:00am |
Break
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10:00-10:30am |
OPEN - Keynote 1
The Rise of Hybrid SDI Jim Pinkerton, Partner Architect Lead, Microsoft
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10:30-10:40am |
OPEN - Special Presentation 1
Introducing a New TechTarget Website Rich Castagna, VP Editorial, TechTarget
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10:40-11:00am |
OPEN - Keynote 2
SDI Helps Data Centers Maximize Performance for Varied Workloads Nick Werstiuk
Product Line Executive - Software Defined Infrastructure
IBM |
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11:10-12:10pm |
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12:10-1:30pm |
Lunch and Exhibits (in Exhibit area) |
Exhibits Open Noon-2:00pm |
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1:30-2:00pm |
OPEN - Keynote 3
Hot Edge, Cold Core, and the Rise of the Hyperconverged Infrastructure Charles Fan, SVP/GM Storage Business Unit, VMware |
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2:00-2:10pm |
OPEN - Special Presentation 2
IT Brand Pulse Innovation Leader Awards Recognizing Brand Leaders as Voted on by IT Professionals (Exhibit Hall) Frank Berry, President/Chief Analyst, IT Brand Pulse |
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2:10-2:40pm |
OPEN - Keynote 4
The New Open Distributed Application Platform Gordon Haff, Senior Cloud Strategy Marketing and Evangelism Manager, Red Hat |
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2:40-3:10pm |
OPEN - Keynote 5
Don't Know Much about SDI? Practical Pathfinding to Make It Happen In Your Data Center Ed Goldman, CTO Enterprise Datacenter Group, Intel |
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3:10-3:25pm |
Break |
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Hardware Track |
Data Centers Track |
Software Track |
Software Defined Storage Track |
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3:25-4:30pm |
Session A-101: Hyperconvergence |
Session B-101: Enterprise Data Centers |
Session C-101: Containers and Docker |
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4:30-5:30pm |
Exhibits Open 5:00-7:00pm |
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7:00-8:30pm |
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Thursday, December 3rd
8:00-8:30am |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
Exhibits |
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Hardware Track |
Software Track |
Software Track |
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8:30-9:45am |
Session A-201: Improving SDI Performance |
Session B-201: Distributed Systems Software |
OPEN - Session C-201: Software Issues |
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9:45-10:00am |
Break
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Hardware Track |
Software Track |
Networking Track |
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10:00-11:00am |
Session A-202: Infrastructure Issues |
Session B-202: Databases |
OPEN - Session C-202: Networking |
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11:00-11:30am |
OPEN - Keynote 6
Policy Abstraction Helps SDI Drive Infrastructure Agility Errol Roberts, Distinguished Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems
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11:30am-Noon |
OPEN - Keynote 7
Creating an Innovation Machine with SDI Sam Greenblatt, Technologist in Residence, Nano Global
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Noon-12:30pm |
OPEN - Keynote 8
Vision for the Software-Defined Data Center Tarkan Maner, Chairman & CEO, Nexenta
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12:30pm-2:00pm |
Lunch and Exhibits - Hall D
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Exhibits Open Noon-2:00pm |
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Hardware Track |
Software Track |
General Track |
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2:00-3:15pm |
Session A-203: Hardware Issues |
Session B-203: Automation and Orchestration |
OPEN - Session C-203: VC Forum |
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3:15-3:30pm |
Break
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3:30-5:00pm |
OPEN - Session A-204: Top Ten Things Everyone Needs to Know about Software-Defined Infrastructure (SDI) Today |
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