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2012 (Last Year’s) Program At-A-Glance

Monday, August 20th
1:00-2:45pm
Chuck Sobey, ChannelScience
2:45-3:00pm
Break
3:00-5:00pm
5:30-7:00pm
PCIe SSD Committee - Roadmap 2012
Sponsored by SNIA and the Solid State Storage Initiative
Tuesday, August 21st
 
Enterprise Storage
Architectures
SSDs
Hardware
Applications
SSDs
8:00-8:30am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:50am
Tutorial A-11
Flash in Data Centers
Tutorial B-11
Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A technical Discussion
Part 1
Tutorial C-11
Enterprise SSDs
Session 101-A
3D Flash: The Next Dimension
Session 101-B
Mobile Applications
OPEN
 
9:50-10:05am
Break
10:05-11:20am
Tutorial A-11
Flash in Data Centers
(cont.)
Tutorial B-11
Flash Memory-Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion
Part 1 (cont.)
Tutorail C-11
Enterprise SSDs (cont.)
Session 102-A
Flash Technology Trends
Session 102-B
Consumer Applications
OPEN
Session 102-C
Standards
OPEN
11:30am-Noon
OPEN - Keynote 1
SSDs: Enabling the Next Wave of Growth in the PC Industry
Kevin Conley, Vice President and General Manager - Client Storage Solutions BUSanDisk
Noon-1:00pm
Lunch
1:00-1:30pm
OPEN - Keynote 2
Overcoming the Scaling Problem for NAND Flash
Dr. Sungwook Park, Executive Vice President - Head of R&D Center, SK Hynix
1:30-2:00pm
OPEN - Keynote 3
Flash: Key to the Connected World
Glen Hawk, Vice President - NAND Solutions, Micron Technology
 
Enterprise Storage
Architectures
SSDs
Standards
Security
Hardware
2:10-3:20pm
Tutorial A-12
Enterprise Storage Design
Tutorial B-12
Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion
Part 2
Tutorial C-12
SSD Technology
Session 103-A
Security
OPEN
Session 103-B
FPGAs in Flash Controller Applications
OPEN
3:20:-3:30pm
Break
3:30-4:45pm
Tutorial A-12
Enterprise Storage Design
(cont.)
Tutorial B-12
Flash Memory-Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion - Part 2 (cont.)
Tutorial C-12
SSD Technology
(cont.)
Tutorial D-12
NVMe (cont.)
Session 104-A
What, Me Worry? Is Flash Security and Issue?
OPEN
Session 104-B
Green Flash
OPEN
5:00-6:00pm
6:00-7:30pm
Wednesday, August 22nd
 
Hardware
Enterprise Storage
Testing
Interfaces
SSDs
Enterprise Applications
 
8:00-8:30am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:40am
Tutorial E-21
Controllers and Flash Technology Part 1: Extending Performance Below 20 nm
Tutorial A-21
Enterprise Caching
Tutorial F-21
Testing / Performance /
Endurance
Session 201-A
Future Storage Interfaces: Which Way Are We Headed?
Session 201-B
Data Recovery of SSDs
OPEN
Tutorial G-21
Enterprise Applications Part 1: Handling Big Data
OPEN
 
9:40-9:50am
Break
9:50-10:50am
Tutorial E-21
Controllers and Flash Technology Part 1: Extending Performance Below 20 nm
(cont.)
Tutorial A-21
Enterprise Caching
(cont.)
Tutorial F-21
Testing / Performance /
Endurance
(cont.)
Session 202-A
SCSI Express: Fast and Reliable Flash Storage for the Enterprise
Session 202-B
Designing Storage Systems in the SSD Era
OPEN
Tutorial G-21
Enterprise Applications Part 1: Handling Big Data (cont.)
OPEN
 
11:00-11:30am
OPEN - Keynote 4
Flash Storage Meets the Content Challenge
John Scaramuzzo, President, SMART Storage Systems
11:30am-Noon
OPEN - Keynote 5
Flash Memory Can Be Primary Storage…Now
Rado Danilak, CEO, Skyera
Noon-1:00pm
Lunch
Noon-2:00pm
EXHIBITS OPEN
2:00-2:30pm
OPEN - Keynote 6
Revolution! The Impact of Emerging Memory Technologies
David Eggleston, Senior Vice President - Non-Volatile Memory/Storage Division, Rambus
2:30-3:00pm
OPEN - Keynote 7
Four Walls Do Not a Make a Datacenter - It's the Ecosystem
Brendan Collins, Vice President - Enterprise Storage, HGST
 
Hardware
Virtualization
Testing
Embedded Systems
New Technologies
Enterprise Applications
 
3:10-4:15pm
Tutorial E-22
Controllers and Flash Technology Part 2: Decoding the Future
Tutorial H-22
Flash and Virtualization
Session 203-B
Embedded Applications
Session 203-C
RRAM
OPEN
Tutorial G-22
Cloud Storage
OPEN
 
4:15-4:30pm
Break
 
Hardware
Virtualization
 
Embedded Systems
New Technologies
Enterprise Applications
Interfaces
4:30-5:30pm
Tutorial E-22
Controllers and Flash Technology Part 2: Decoding the Future
(cont.)
Tutorial H-22
Flash and Virtualization
(cont.)
 
Session 204-B
Choosing the Right NVM for Your Embedded Needs
Session 204-C
MRAM: Truly Non-Volatile RAM
OPEN
Tutorial G-22
Cloud Storage Part 2
OPEN
Session 204-D
Thunderbolt
OPEN
5:30-6:30pm
All-Industry Reception
FLASH MEMORY SUMMIT BEST OF SHOW AWARDS CEREMONY (6:15pm)
OPEN
5:30-7:30pm
EXHIBITS OPEN
7:00-9:30pm
Thursday, August 23rd
 
Enterprise Storage
PCIe Storage
SSDs
Hardware
New Technologies
Enterprise Applications
8:00-8:30am
Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:40am
Tutorial A-31
Client Caching
Session 301-A
PCIe Storage-1
Session 301-B
SSD Technology
Session 301-C
Flash Controller Design Options
Session 301-D
Life Beyond Flash: New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies
OPEN
Tutorial G-31
Database / Data Management Acceleration
OPEN
9:40-9:50am
Break
 
Enterprise Storage
PCIE Storage
NOR Flash
Hardware
New Technologies
Enterprise Applications
9:50-10:50am
Tutorial A-31
Client Caching
(cont.)
Session 302-A
PCIe Roundtable (sponsored by SNIA SSSI)
Session 302-B
Computing in Memory: Speech Recognition (Panel)
Session 302-C
Non-Volatile Design Challenges and Methodologies
Session 302-D
Future of Phase Change Memory
OPEN
Tutorial G-31
Database / Data Management Acceleration (cont.)
OPEN
11:00-11:30am
OPEN - Keynote 8
Solid-State Endurance: Will Your Data Still Be There in the Morning
Scott Stetzer, VP Technical Marketing, STEC
11:30am-Noon
OPEN - Keynote 9
The Business Case for Solid State Storage
Jeff Burke, VP Strategic Marketing and Research, Seagate Technology
Noon-1:00pm
Lunch
Noon-2:00pm
EXHIBITS OPEN
2:00-2:30pm
OPEN - Keynote 10
Solid State Drives - From Disruptive to the New Normal
Robert Crooke, Corporate VP  / GM, Intel
2:30-3:00pm
OPEN - Keynote 11
Accelerating Business Applications with Flash Memory
Scott Tracy, VP ZFS Storage Engineering, Oracle
 
Markets
PCIe Storage
SSDs
Enterprise Applications
NOR Flash
 
3:10-4:25pm
Session 303-A
SSD Challenges
Session 303-B
PCIe Storage Roundtable (sponsored by SNIA SSSI)
Session 303-C
Market Research
OPEN
Session 303-D
The Future of Flash-Enabled Apps
Session 303-E
NOR Flash Finds New Applications
 
4:25-4:40pm
Break
4:40-6:00pm
Session 304-A
Closing Panel on Top Ten Things You Need to Know about Flash Memory Today
OPEN
Session 304-B
Software
OPEN