Flash Memory Summit 2012 Proceedings

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Tuesday, August 22nd

8:30-11:20am

Tutorial A-11: Flash in Data Centers (Enterprise Storage Track)

	How SSDs Fit in Different Data Center Applications Tahmid Rahman, Technical Marketing Engineer, Intel
	Flash Uses in High-Performance Platforms Jim Cooke, Sr. Manager, Enterprise Storage Segment, Micron Technologies
	Welcome to Performance Sprawl George Crump, Lead Analyst, Storage Switzerland
	Acheiving Flash Memory's Full Potential Darpan Dinker, Director Engineering, SanDisk
	Flash Implications in Enterprise Storage Designs Denis Vilfort, Senior Director Product Marketing, Seagate Technology
	Getting the Most Out of Your Existing SAS Storage Infrastructure Marty Czekalski, Interface and Emerging Architecture Program Manager, Seagate Technology

8:30-11:20am

Tutorial B-11: Flash-Memory Based Architectures - A Technical Discussion, Part 1 (Architectures Track)

	NAND Flash Architecture and Specification Trends Michael Abraham, NAND Solutions Group Architect, Micron Technology
	The Critical Role of Firmware and Flash Translation Layers in Solid State Drive Design Rob Sykes, Direct of Applications, OCZ Technology Group, Inc.
	Leveraging Flash Translation Layers for Application Acceleration Ashish Batwara, Principal Storage Architect, Fusion-io
	Write Atomicity and NVM Drive Design Andy Rudoff, Enterprise Storage Architect, Intel

8:30-11:20am

Tutorial C-11: Enterprise SSDs (SSDs Track)

	It Takes Guts to be Great Sean Stead, SSD Technical Marketing, STEC
	The Demise of SLC in the Enterprise Bernie Rub, VP / CTO, Smart Storage Systems
	Working with sub 25nm MLC in Enterprise Scott Shadley, Senior Manager Product Marketing, Micron Technology
	The SSD Endurance Race: Who's Got the Write Stuff? Ulrich Hansen, Director Market Development, HGST
	SSD Buying Behaviors Frank Berry, President, IT Brand Pulse
	Industry Brief - CDs & HDDs Once Rocked Frank Berry, President, IT Brand Pulse
	Server-Based STorage: Faster, Economical, Reliable Steve Mattos, Strategic Program Manager - Storage Solutions, Intel

8:30-9:50am

Session 101-A: 3D Flash - The Next Dimension (Hardware Track)

	3D-IC Is Now Real: Wide-IO is Driving 3D-IC TSV Samta Bansal, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cadance Design Systems
	High Density Stacked NAND Flash for SSDs Pierre Lartigues, Field Applications Engineer, 3D Plus
	Hybrid Memory Cube Consortium Update Steve Erickson, VP/GM IP and Platform Development, Open Silicon
	3D Flash, The Next Dimension Steve Leibson, Marketing Director - Corporate Marketing, Cadence Design Systems
	DFT-3D: What it means to "Design For 3DIC Test"? Sanjiv Taneja, Vice President R&D - Silicon Realization Group, Cadence

8:30-9:50am

OPEN Session 101-B: Mobile Applications (Applications Track)

	Total IP Solution for UFS Mobile Storage UFS & NAND Yuping Chung, Product Marketing Manager, Arasan Chip Systems
	Next-Generation Storage and the Mobile Computing Ecosystem Carla Lay, Segment Marketing Manager, Micron Technology
	Mobile Storage: Today and Tomorrow Hangu Sohn, Technical Product Planning Director, Samsung Semiconductor
	Ultra-Low Power System Design for Ultrabooks Jeremy Werner, Director Marketing, LSI
	Merits and Methods of IO Traced Based Performance Benchmarking of SSDs Harry Pon, NAND Product Development, Intel

10:10-11:25am

Session 102-A: Flash Technology Trends (Hardware Track)

	Low Voltage and High speed Interface in Nand Flash Changhyuk Lee, Head Flash Advanced Design Team, SK Hynix
	Future Technology Challenges for NAND Flash and HDD Products Edward Grochowski, Computer Storage Consultant
	Why ECC-Free NAND Is the Best Solution for High-Performance Applications Richard Metzger, Applications Engineer, Micron Technology
	The Bleak Future of NAND Flash Memory Laura M. Grupp, Non-volatile Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD

10:10-11:25am

OPEN Session 102-B: Consumer Applications (Applications Track)

	USB Drives for Kids, Tweens, and Teenagers Sherry Chapman, Director Marketing, Dane-Elec
	Optimize User Experience with the Right Flash Storage Solutions Young-Joon Choi, Senior VP, AData Technology
	Optimizing Storage Performance on Android Doug Dumitru, CTO, EasyCo
	Evaluating Managed NAND Architectures for Consumer Applications Mark Honeck, Director Product Marketing, PNY Technologies

10:10-11:25am

OPEN Session 102-C: Standards (SSDs Track)

	Best Practices for Performing JEDEC-Based Endurance Testing Alvin Cox, Senior Staff Engineer, Seagate Technology
	How ONFI Standards Are Fueling High-Performance SSDs Terry Grunzke, Senior Applications Engineer, Micron Technology
	The Transition to PCIe for Client SSDs Amber Huffman, Senior Principal Engineer, Intel
	Universal Flash Storage Compliance Test Perry Keller, Memory Program Manager, Agilent Technologies /UFSA

11:00-11:30am

OPEN - Keynote 1

Enabling the Next Wave of Growth in the PC Industry

Kevin Conley, Senior Vice President and General Manager - Client Storage Solutions BU, SanDisk

1:00-1:30pm

OPEN - Keynote 2

Overcoming the Scaling Problem for NAND Flash

Dr. Sungwook Park, Executive Vice President - Head of Research and Development Center, SK Hynix

1:30-2:00pm

OPEN - Keynote 3

Flash: Key to the Connected World

Glen Hawk, Vice President - NAND Solutions, Micron Technology

2:10-4:45pm

Tutorial A-12: Enterprise Storage Design (Enterprise Storage Track)

	A Design for Networked Flash Michael Wei, Graduate Student, Microsoft Research, UCSD
	Tiered vs. All-SSD Approaches in the Cloud Dave Wright, CEO, SolidFire
	Advanced Flash Technology: Status, Scaling Trends, and Implications to Enterprise SSD Technology Enablement Jung Yoon, Team Lead - Memory Quality and Technology and Gary Tressler, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM
	Interface Trends for the Enterprise I/O Highway Mitch Abbey, Senior Enterprise Product Line Manager, HGST
	Integrating SSDs into Virtual Servers Andy Mills, CEO, Enmotus

2:10-4:45pm

Tutorial B-12: Flash-Memory Based Architectures: A Technical Discussion, Part 2 (Architectures Track)

	Why Variable-Size Matters: Beyond Page-Based Flash Translation Layers Earl Cohen, Chief Architect - Flash Components Division, LSI
	Memory Modem FTL Architecture for 1Xnm/2Xnm MLC and TLC Flash Devices Hanan Weingarten, CTO, DensBits
	SSD Firmware Complexities and Benefits from NVMe Steve Shrader, Senior Architect, Cadance Design Systems
	SSD Architecture for Consistent Enterprise Performance Gary Tressler, Senior Technical Staff Member

2:10-4:45pm

Tutorial C-12: SSD Technology (SSDs Track)

	A 2/4 TB SATA3 SSD Employing a Single Controller with 4 HLNAND Channels HakJune Oh, Director Product Development, MOSAID
	Is MLC Ready for the Enterprise? Esther Spanjer, Director SSD Technology Marketing, SMART Storage Systems
	Data Integrity on 20nm NAND SSDs Robert Frickey, Product Development Engineer, Intel
	Verification and Management of Endurance in NAND SSDs Venkatesh Vasudevan, Director Quality and Reliability Engineering, Intel
	Testing SSDs at the System Level Tony Lavia, President and CEO, Flexstar Technology
	MEMS Oscillators Improve SSD Designs Sassan Tabatabaei, Director Strategic Applications, SITime

2:10-4:45pm

Tutorial D-12: NVMe and PCIe SSDs(Standards Track)

	Promise of Low-Latency Stable Storage for Enterprise Solutions Janet Wu, Principal Software Engineer, Oracle
	NVMe From The Server Perspective Don Walker, Enterprise Storage Product Architect, Dell
	A High-Performance Driver Ecosystem for NVM Express Andy Rudoff, Enterprise Storage Architect, Intel
	How the Streamlined Architecture of NVM Express Enables High Performance PCIe SSDs Peter Onufryk, Director of Engineering, IDT
	NVMe Interoperability and Conformance David Woolf, Senior Engineer, UNH IOL

2:10-3:20pm

Session 103-A: Security (Security Track)

	Self Encrypting Drives: SSD, SSHD, Enterprise and Opal and FIPS Monty Forehand, Development Engineering Director, Seagate Technology
	TCG Opal Design and Testing Joseph Chen, VP Engineering, Ulink Technology
	Disk Encryption Using a Physical Key Wei-Ti Liu, President, LucidPort Technology
	Challenges and Advances in Reliably Sanitizing Solid State Disks Michael Wei, Graduate Student, UC San Diego
	Opal SSDs Integrated with TPMs Robert Thibadeau, Senior VP/Chief Scientist, Wave Systems

2:10-3:20pm

Session 103-B: FPGAs in Flash Controller Applications (Hardware Track)

Flash Controller Solutions in Programmable Technology

David McIntyre, Senior Business Unit Manager Computer and Storage Business Unit, Altera Corporation

3:30-4:45pm

OPEN Session 104-A: What, Me Worry? Is Flash Secure Today? (Security Track)

	PCIe and NVM Walt Hubis, Storage Standards Architect, Fusion-io
	IS8 Corporate Overview John Leon, VP 3D Stacking, ISC8

3:30-4:45pm

OIPEN Session 104-B: Green Flash (Hardware Track)

	Energy Star Resources for Data Centers Kathy Diehl, ENERGY STAR Program Manager, US EPA
	Increase Controller Performance and Energy Efficiency Chris Rowen, CTO, Tensilica
	Green SSD Ryan Smith, Senior Flash Marketing Manager, Samsung Semiconductor
	Energy Efficient Datacenter Tony Barbagallo, Marketing Consultant, Skyera

Wednesday, August 23rd

8:30-10:50am

Tutorial E-21: Controllers and Flash Technology, Part 1: Extending Performance Below 20nm (Hardware Track)

	A 19nm 112.8 mm2 64Bb Multi-Level 400 Mb/s/pin 1.8 V Toggle Model Interface Noboru Shibata, Chief Specialist, Toshiba
	Taking Consumer MLC to Extreme Endurance Pablo Ziperovich, VP Flash Channel Development, STEC
	NAND Flash Reliability and Optimization Barry Fitzgerald, Postgrad Researcher and Sorcha Bennett, Limerick Institute of Technology
	Operation Algorithm of NAND Chips for SSDs Byoungjun Park, Senior Engineering Director, SK Hynix
	Understainding SSD Overprovisioning Kent Smith, Senior Director Marketing, LSI
	128 Gb 3-Bit Per Cell NAND Flash Memory on 19nm Technology Yan Li, Director Engineering, SanDisk

8:30-10:50am

Tutorial A-21: Enterprise Caching (Enterprise Storage Track)

	Cache to the Future Sandeep Cariapa, System Architect, STEC
	Analyst Perspective: SSD Caching vs. SSD Tiering - Which Is Better? Dennis Martin, President, Demartek
	Server Side Cache Performance Analysis Rayan Zachariassen, CTO, NEVEX Virtual Technologies
	What Flash Means to the Future of Storage System Architectures Kirill Malkin, CTO Starboard Storage
	Turbocharging Cache for Enterprise Applications Som Sikdar, CTO, Gridiron Systems
	Virtual Storage Tier and Beyond Manish Agarwai, Senior Product Manager, NetApp

8:30-10:50am

Tutorial F-21: Testing / Performance / Endurance (Testing Track)

	SSD Cost-of-Test Using Non-PC Based Architectures Scott Filler, SSD Marketing Manager, Advantest
	The Impact of Dwell on Flash Reliability Jim Fitzpatrick, Principal Engineer, SMART Storage Systems
	The Need for Differentiated MLC Solutions Ji Luo, NAND Product Marketing Manager, Micron Technology
	Getting the Most Out of SSD: Sometimes, Less Is More Bruce Moxon, Chief Solutions Architect, STEC
	Qualifying SSDs Kevin Donovan, Vice President of Test Services, Flexstar Technology

8:30-10:50am

OPEN Tutorial G-21: Enterprise Applications Part 1 - Handling Big Data (Enterprise Applications Track)

	One Hour Solid State Deployment in Existing SAN Jason Caulkins, Chief Technologies, Dataram
	Automatic Storage Tiering in the Age of Big Data Joel Trammell, CEO, Cache IQ
	SSD Technologies for Hybrid Storage Gary Watson, CTO, Nexsan
	A State Machine Architecture for High-Efficiency, Low-Latency SS Media Performance Extraction Bret Weber, CTO, DataDirect Networks
	Driving Down Healthcare Costs with Flash Erik De La Iglesia, Chief Architect, GridIron Systems
	Cruise control for application storage performance Chris McCall, VP Marketing, NexGen Storage
	Accelerating Big Data Analytics: The Role of Intelligent Flash Solutions in the Data Deluge Steve Fingerhut, VP Marketing, LSI

8:30-9:40am

OPEN Session 201-A: Future Storage Interfaces: Which Way Are We Headed? (Interfaces Track)

	SATA in Mobile Computing Miki Sapir, Director Technical Business Development, SanDisk
	Extending the SCSI Platform of Innovation Marty Czekalski, Interface and Emerging Architecture Program Manager, SCSI Trade Association/Seagate Technology
	SATA Express: Where is SATA going? Mladen Luksic, Director Host Interface Technology, SATA-IO/Western Digital
	Storage Device Interface Evolution Tom Heil, Senior Systems Architect, LSI

8:30-9:40am

OPEN Session 201-B: Data Recovery of SSDs (SSDs Track)

	Data Recovery Survial Tips and Realities Abhik Mitra, Product Manager Data Recovery, Kroll OnTrack
	Protecting Your Data from Data Loss Sean Barry, Technology Consultant, EMC
	SSD Data Protection and Recovery David Blunden, Applications Engineer, Intel
	Data Recovery of SSDs Paul Clark, Senior Storage Escalation Engineer, VMware
	Future Trends in SSD Data Recovery Chris Bross, Senior Enterprise Data Recovery Engineer, Drive Savers Data Recovery

8:30-9:40am

OPEN Session 202-A: SCSI Express: Fast and Reliable Flash Storage for the Enterprise (Interfaces Track)

SCSI Express: Fast and Reliable Flash Storage for the Enterprise

All

9:50-10:50am

OPEN Session 202-B: Designing Storage Systems in the SSD Era

Hybrid Storage Systems - HDD + SSD

Ryan Smith, Senior Flash Marketing Manager, Samsung Semiconductor

11:00-11:30am

Keynote 4

What Is In Your Storage DNA?

John Scaramuzzo, President, Smart Storage Systems

11:30pm-Noon

Keynote 5

Flash Memory Can Be Primary Storage…Now

Rado Danliak, CEO, Skyera

2:00-2:30pm

Keynote 6

Revolution! The Impact of Emerging Memory Technologies

David Eggleston, Senior Vice President - Non-Volatile Memory/Storage Division, Rambus

2:30-3:00pm

Keynote 7

Four Walls Do Not Make a Datacenter - It's the Ecosystem

Brendan Collins, Vice President - Enterprise Storage, HGST

3:10-5:30pm

Tutorial E-22: Controllers and Flash Technology, Part 2: Decoding the Future (Hardware Track)

	Bit Error Analysis on Drives for Data Recovery Clint Foster, Software Engineer, Kroll OnTrack
	Using LDPC in SSD: Challenges and Solutions Tong Zhang, Associate Professor, RPI
	Novel ECC Architecture EnhancesStorage System Reliability Jeff Yang, Principal Engineer, Silicon Motion
	Increasing NAND Flash Endurance Using Refresh Techniques Yu Cai, Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University
	LDPC Codes for Flash Channel Xinde Hu, System Architect, STEC
	An LDPC-Enabled Flash Controller in 40 nm CMOS Engling Yeo, Design Manager, Marvell

3:10-5:30pm

Tutorial H-22: Flash and Virtualization (Virtualization Track)

	Storage Performance and Desktop Virtualization James Candelaria, CTO, WhipTail Technologies and Cor van't Hoff, Senior Designer Netherlands Ministry of Defense
	Flash Memory and Virtualization: Choosing Your Path Rich Petersen, Directer Marketing Management, SanDisk
	Deployment and Bottlenecks of Flash and Virtualization Alex Danilychev, Senior Storage Engineer, Citrix
	How Flash Optimizes Virtualization Environments Sandeep Uttamchandani, Technical Director Storage, VMware
	I/O Virtualization: Enabling New Architectures in the Data Center for Server and I/O Connectivity Marek Piekarski, Senior Strategist, Micron Technology
	Challenges and Flash Solutions Facing the Virtualized Enterprise Data Center Allon Cohen, VP Marketing, OCZ-SANRAD

3:10-5:30pm

OPEN Tutorial G-22: Enterprise Applications, Part 2 - Cloud Storage (Enterprise Applications Track)

	Enterpries SSDs in Scale-Out NAS Design Rob Peglar, CTO Americas, Isilon Systems
	Converged Cloud Infrastructures Meet SSDs: Inspired Architecture, Increased Speeds, Lowered Costs Christopher Aedo, Director Technical Operations, MorphLabs
	Why Solid State Is Changing IT Vish Mulchand, Worldwide Director Solutions Marketing, HP
	Managing Flash Storage in the Enterprise Rajeev Dawar, Senior Virtualization Specialist, EMC
	Cloud-Integrated Storage and the "New Hollywood" Ranajit Nevatia, VP Marketing, Panzura
	Nimble Storage in Real Life Ken Shipper, IT Operations, Manager, Graniterock

3:10-4:15pm

Session 203-A: Testing (Testing Track)

	Advantages of Tester-per-DUT for Parallel SSD Testing Tien Pham, SSD Applications Manager, Advantest
	PCI Express Based SSD Test Methodologies John Wiedemier, Product Marketing Manager, LeCroy
	Ming II Flash Characterization System Trevor Bunker, Grad Student Researcher, UCSD
	Large-Scale Enterprise Flash Storage Reliability Erik Eyberg, Senior Analyst, Texas Memory Sustems

3:10-4:15pm

Session 203-B: Embedded Applications (Embedded Systems Track)

	Embedded SSDs - Less Really Is More Scott Phillips, Director Embedded Storage Marketing STEC
	Endurance Stretching Flash Memory with Serial SRAM Hardik Patel, Principal Applications Engineer, Microchip Technology
	Flash Challenges for Embedded Computing Tom McCormick, Senior Systems Engineer, SMART Modular Technologies
	Very Small Form Factor Storage Solutions: CF SATA C.C. Wu, R&D Director, Innodisk

3:10-4:15pm

OPEN Session 203-C: RRAM (New Technologies Track)

	ReRAM for Fast Storage Application Keiichi Tsutsui, Senior Manager Advanced Memory Systems, Sony
	Why You Need MOHJO Lee Cleveland, Director Device Engineering, 4DS
	Mechanism of Switching and Related Challenges in Transition Metal Oxide Based RRAM Devices Rashmi Jha, Assistant Professor, University of Toledo
	Using Cross-Point Arrays to Achieve Fast Write Speeds Christophe Chevallier, VP Product Development, Rambus

4:30-5:30pm

OPEN Session 204-B: Choosing the Right NVM for Your Embedded Needs

Choosing the Right NVM for Your Embedded Needs

Howard Chen, Senior Segment Applications Manager, Micron Technology

4:30-5:30pm

OPEN Session 204-C: MRAM: Truly Non-Volatile RAM

	MLU - Magnetic Logic Unit Barry Hoberman, CMO, Crocus Technologies
	Accelerating Data Storage Joe O'Hare, Director Product Marketing, Everspin Technologies
	ST-MRAM for High Volume Commercial Memory Gurtej Sandhu, Director Advanced Technology Development, Micron Technology

4:30-5:30pm

OPEN Session 204-D: Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt Technology

Brett Branch, Software and Ecosystem Enabling, Intel

7:00-9:30pm

OPEN - Special IEEE Tutorial: LDPC Decoding: VLSI Architectures and Implementations

	Module 1 Ned Varnica, Senior Researcher, Marvell
	Module 2 Kiran Gunnam, Senior Hardware Engineer, NVIDIA

Thursday, August 24th

8:30-10:50am

Tutorial A-31: Client Caching (Enterprise Storage Track)

	Cache SSDs for Client Computing? The Killer Aopp for OEM and Aftermarket Upgrades Kevin Silver, VP Business Development, NVELO
	Intel Ultrabook Responsiveness and NVM Caching Dale Juenemann, Storage Architect, Intel
	Getting Ready to Customize Your Solid State Hybrid Drive Tom Lenny, Senior Engineer, Seagate Technology
	The Market Case for NAND Caching in PCs John Rydning, IDC
	Performance Tradeoffs of Flash-Based Client Storage Solutions Jon Tanguy, Applications Engineer, Micron Technology

8:30-10:50am

Tutorial G-31: Database / Data Management Acceleration (Enterprise Applications Track)

	Boost Performance and Extend NAS Life Doug Rainbolt, VP Marketing, Alacritech
	Flash Optimized Databases and Data Stores Brian O'Krafka, Chief Architect/Fellow, SanDIsk
	Clearing the SSD Jungle for Relational Databases Gurinder Brar, Director Systems Engineering, STEC
	Multi-Temperature Data Warehousing: Managing Data According to Frequency of Use Rob Kubo, Director Platform Product Management, Teradata
	Application-Focused Flash Acceleration Anthony Vattathil, Corporate Engineer, IBM
	UFC KOs Video Production Bottlenecks with TMS RamSan-710 Dan Scheel, President, Texas Memory Systems

8:30-10:50am

Session 301-A: PCIe Storage - 1 (PCIe Storage Track)

	Lessons from the Front Lines and a Look to the Future Gary Orenstein, VP Product and Technical Marketing, Fusion-io
	PCI Express* SSD Industry Standards Jim Pappas, Director Initiative Marketing, Intel
	Lies, Damn Lies and a Zillion IOPS Swapna Yasarapu, Product Marketing Manager, STEC

8:30-9:40am

Session 301-B: SSD Technology (SSDs Track)

	Improve SSD Performance with Ultracapacitor Power Backup Dave Wright, Director of Application Engineering, Maxwell Technologies
	Improving Enterprise SSD Reliability Michael Laflin, Director Marketing, Enpirion
	Exploitation of Rber Diversity over Dies to Improve ECC Performance in NAND Flash Drive Ravi Motwani, ECC/DSP Architect, Intel

8:30-9:40am

Session 301-C: Flash Controller Design Options (Hardware Track)

	ECC in Flash Controllers Michal Jedrak, Technical Marketing Manager, Evatronix
	Write Amplification due to ECC on Flash Memory or Leave Those Bit Errors Alone Sangwhan Moon, Grad Student, Texan A&M University
	Tackling Intracell Variability in TLC Flash Through Error Correction Coding Ryan Gabrys, PhD Student, UCLA
	Lattice ECC for NAND Flash Memory Tom Parnell, CTO, SIGLEAD
	Navigating the Controller Landscape Narinder Lall, Marketing Director, eASIC
	Abstracting the Flash Translation Layer for Enterprise-Ready MLC Erik de la Iglesia, Chief Architect, GridIron systems

8:30-9:40am

OPEN Session 301-D: Life Beyond Flash: New Non-Volatile Memory Technologies (New Technologies Track)

	Redesigning Transaction Mechanisms for Fast Solid-State Disks Trevor Bunker, Graduate Student, UCSD
	StorageRAM with a New Spin Steffen Hellmold, VP Marketing, EverSpin Technologies
	The Applications of Spintronic Memory in Microprocessors Yiran Chen, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
	Progress Toward Understanding the Resistive Switching Process in RRAM Devices Blanka Magyari-Kope, Senior Research Engineer, Stanford University
	Memristors: Progress in Understanding and Integration Janice Nickel, Program Manager, HP

9:50-10:50am

Session 302-A: PCIe Storage - 2 (PCIe Storage Track)

	PCIe 2.5" Form Factor Janene Ellefson, Product Marketing Manager - PCIe SSDs, Micron Technology
	Testing PcIe SSDs for quality and Reliability Michael Bellon, VP Engineering, FlexStar Technology
	Flash Drives: Block Storage or Memory? Tony Roug, Datacenter Storage Solutions Architect, Virident

9:50-10:50am

Session 302-B: Computing in Memory: Speech Recognition (SSDs Track)

Computing in Memory: Speech Recognition

Spansion, Nuance, and Objective Analysis

9:50-10:50am

Session 302-C: Non-Volatile Design Challenges and Methodologies (Hardware Track)

	Optimizing Top Level Signal Planning for Flash Memory Bob Eisenstadt, Senior Technologist, Pulsic
	No Spin Zone: SSDs Rock Storage Interfaces Tom Hackett, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Cadance Design Systems
	LDPC Compiler for NAND Flash and SSD Controllers Nenad Miladinovic, Director System s Architecture, Proton Digital Systemss
	Non-Volatile Design Verification Challenges Scott Jacobson, Cadence

9:50-10:50am

OPEN Session 302-D: Future of Phase Change Memory (New Technologies Track)

	Future of Phase Change Memory Mike Strickland, Director Marketing, Altera
	Phase Change Memory Michael Abraham, NAND Solutions Group Architect, Micron Technology
	Phase Change Memory System Level Applications Gary Kotzur, Director/Distinguished Engineer Storage Advanced Engineering, Dell

11:00-11:30am

Keynote 8

Solid-State Endurance: Will Your Data Still Be There in the Morning

Scott Stetzer, VP Technical Marketing, STEC

11:30am-Noon

Keynote 9

The Business Case for Solid State Storage

Jeff Burke, VP Strategic Marketing Group, Seagate Technology

2:00-2:30pm

Keynote 10

Solid State Drives - From Disruptive to the New Normal

Robert Crooke, Corporate Vice President/General Manager - Non-Volatile Memory Solutions

2:30-3:00pm

Keynote 11

Accelerating Business Applications with Flash Memory

Scott Tracy, VP ZFS Storage Engineering, Oracle

3:10-4:25pm

Session 303-A: SSD Challenges (Markets Track)

	Effects of Neutron Radiation on Solid State Drives Milap Shah, Flash Component Memory Engineer, Cisco Systems
	reFresh SSDs - Enabling High Endurance, Low Cost Flash in Datacenters Vidyabhushan Mohan, Grad Student, University of Virginia
	Flash Tier: A Lightweight Consistent and Durable Storage Cache Mohit Saxena, PhD Student, University of Wisconsin

3:10-4:25pm

Session 303-B: PCIe SSD Roundtable (sponsored by SNIA SSSI)

	SNIA SSSI PCIe SSD Round Table All
	SATA Express: Evolving SATA for High-Speed Storage Paul Wassenberg, Director Product Marketing, Marvell

3:10-4:25pm

OPEN Session 303-C: Market Research (SSDs Track)

	Big Changes Coming for NAND & SSD Jim Handy, Director/Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis
	Long-Term Trends in the NAND Market Dee Nguyen, Analyst, IHS iSuppli

3:10-4:25pm

Session 303-E: NOR Flash Finds New Applications (NOR Flash Track)

	Increased Serial NOR Performance Enables New Applications Cliff Zitlaw, Fellow, Spansion
	Intelligent Embedded Systems Jeff Bader, VP Embedded Solutions Marketing, Micron Technology
	New Trend for Serial NOR in Mobile Phone Michael Wang, AVP Emeriging System Lab, Macronix
	Serial NOR Flash Applications Drive Growth K.C. Shekar, Senior Strategic Marketing Director, Winbond

3:10-4:25pm

OPEN Session 304-A: Closing Panel on Top Ten Things You Need to Know about Flash Memory Today

	Top Ten Things You Need to Know Jered Floyd, CTO, Permabit
	New SSD Interfaces & Metrics of Merit Knut Grimsrud, Director Storage Architecture/Intel Fellow, Intel
	SSD Firmware Development Andy Tomlin, VP SSD Development, Western Digital
	Top Ten Things You Need to Know Jim Handy, Director/Chief Analyst, Objective Analysis
	NAND's 1st Victim: Chemical Film Kevin Kilbuck, Marketing Director, Micron Technology

3:10-4:25pm

OPEN Session 304-B: Software

	Native Flash Support for Applications Nisha Talagala, Lead Architect, Fusion-io
	The Software Perspective on eMMC Thom Denholm, Technical Product Manger, Datalight
	Automated Storage Tiering: Optimizing Flash Memory in Today's SAN Environment Carlos Carreras, VP Alliances and Business Developement, DataCore Software

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