Join us at Storage Technology Showcase (STS)
The fifth annual Storage Technology Showcase (STS) will be held in Norfolk, Virginia, March 3-6, 2024 at the Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel. The theme for 2024 is "Considerations of the AI impact on Storage".
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Venue Details:
Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel
777 Waterside Drive Norfolk, Virginia 23510
Agenda:
Sunday, March 3
Monday, March 4
- 7:30am - 9:00am - Breakfast/Registration/Exhibits
- 9:00am - 9:15am - Welcome: Quinn D. Mitchell
- 9:15am - 10:00am - Keynote: John Monroe - Further Market Research
- 10:00am - 10:30am - Analyst Keynote: Fred Moore - Horison Information Strategies
- 10:30am - 11:00am - Break & Exhibits
- 11:00am - 11:30pm - Steffen Hellmold - Cerabyte - Ceramic Nano Memory enabling the AI Storage Dataverse
- 11:30am -12:00pm - Chuck Sobey - Channel Science - Muti-format, Do-No-Harm Legacy Tape Reader
- 12:00pm - 12:30pm - David Cerf - GRAU DATA US - Beyond Storage Optimizaton: Empowering AI with Embedded Metadata
- 12:30pm - 2:00pm - Lunch & Exhibits
- 2:00pm - 2:30pm - Chris Maestas - IBM - Innovations with IBM Unstructured Storage for Data and AI workloads
- 2:30pm - 3:00pm - Dr Barry Lunt - BYU - Data Storage Research: A Three-fold Effort
- 3:00pm - 3:30pm - Thomas Thalmann - PoINT Software & Systems - AI-supported object storage with multiple storage classes
- 3:30pm - 4:00pm - Break & Exhibits
- 4:00pm - 4:30pm - Rich Gadomski - FujiFilm - The Impact of AI/ML on the Need for Active Archiving and the Supporting Role of Modern Tape
- 4:30pm - 5:00pm - Qing Zheng - Los Alamos National Laboratory - Leveraging Computational Storage for Simulation Science Storage System Design
- 6:00pm - Evening Dinner
Tuesday, March 5
- 7:30am - 9:00am - Breakfast & Exhibits
- 9:00am - 9:30am - Analyst Keynote: Brad Johns - Brad Johns Consulting
- 9:30am - 10:15am - David Flynn - Hammerspace - The Convergence of High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence
- 10:15am - 11:00am - Break & Exhibits
- 11:00am - 11:30am - John Hoffman - DNA Data Storage Alliance - DNA Data Storage – What will it take to commercialize?
- 11:30am - 12:00pm - Dave Landsman - Western Digital/DNA Data Storage Alliance - Creating an interoperable DNA data storage ecosystem
- 12:00pm - 1:30pm - Lunch & Exhibits
- 1:30pm - 2:15pm - Matt Starr - SpectraLogic - How Will Data Retention Change in an AI World
- 2:15pm - 3:00pm - Meghan McClelland - Versity Software - Bridging the Data Format Gap: The Versity S3 Gateway
- 3:00pm - 3:15pm - Qing Zheng - Versity Case Study - Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 3:15pm - 4:00pm - Break & Exhibits
- 4:00pm - 4:20pm - Jason Peters - Sandia National Laboratory
- 4:20pm - 5:00pm - Ian Randall - ECMWF - ECMWF Site Presentation
- 6:00pm - Evening Vendor appreciation evening
Wednesday, March 6
- 7:30am - 9:00am - Breakfast & Exhibits
- 9:00am - 9:45am - Analyst Keynote: Mike Fisher - Alliance Technology Group - Considerations of the AI Impact on Storage
- 9:45am - 10:15am - Randy Fleenor - IBM - Storage Cost Containment – the more things change the more they stay the same
- 10:15am - 11:00am - Break & Exhibits
- 11:00am - 11:30am - Mike Aguilar - Sandia National Labs - A Reinforcement-Learning based Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure for HPC Burst-Buffer Storage
- 12:00pm - 1:30pm - Lunch & Exhibits
- 2:00pm - 2:40pm - Jordan Winkelman - Quantum Corp - Optimizing Data Lifecycles, Pipelines, and Workflows – Erasure Coding Three Ways
- 2:40pm - 3:30pm - Break & Exhibits
- 3:30pm - 3:45pm - Quinn D. Mitchell remarks
- 3:45pm - 5:00pm - Panel
- 6:00pm - Evening Dinner & Closing Reception
Chris Maestas, Chief Executive Architect, IBM Storage for Data and AI Solutions
Chris is the Chief Executive Architect for IBM Storage for Data and AI Solutions with over 20 years of experience deploying and designing IT systems for clients in various spaces. He has experience scaling performance and availability with a variety of file systems technologies. He has developed benchmark frameworks to test out systems for reliability and validate research performance data. He also has led global enablement sessions discussing how best to position unstructured software-defined storage like Scale, Ceph, and Cloud Object Storage in Cloud, Hybrid, Edge, Container, or AI spaces.