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The Azure Storage product group is heading to the SNIA Developer Conference (SDC) 2024 in Santa Clara, California, USA from September 16th through September 18th. We have a large contingent of Product Managers and Engineers responsible for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Files presenting across multiple sessions at the conference as well as the Cloud Object Storage Plugfest.


If you’re attending the conference, stop by our sessions, listen in, say “Hello!” and introduce yourself as we demonstrate how Azure Storage can accommodate the largest AI training and AI inference workloads using Azure Blob Storage. Or if you’re a Files customer, stop by our sessions on Azure Files and SMB.


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Date



Session title



Speakers



Track



17 September 2024 @ 3:05PM PT



Elevating Linux File Access: Recent Enhancements to the SMB 3.1.1 Client




  • Steven French – Principal Software Engineer – Azure Storage



File Systems & Protocols



17 September 2024 @ 4:05PM PT



Cloud Storage Considerations for Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in AI Applications




  • Vamshidhar Kommineni – Group Product Manager

  • Saurabh Sensharma – Principal Product Manager



AI / ML Applications for Storage



17 September @ 4:05PM PT



Demystifying Linux SMB Mount Options




  • Bharath S M – Senior Software Engineer

  • Shyam Prasad – Principal Software Engineering Manager 



File Systems & Protocols



18 September @ 9:30AM PT



DNA Data Storage “End-to-End” System Concept


 




  • Shruti Sethi – Senior Technical Manager



Archival Storage



18 September @ 11:35AM PT



Azure Files: Design Challenges for the Biggest File Server in the World




  • Utsav Mohata – Principal Software Engineer

  • Rena Shah – Senior Product Manager



File Systems & Protocols



18 September 2024 @ 2:30PM PT



Supercharging OpenAI Training with Microsoft’s Azure Blob Storage




  • Jason Vallery – Group Product Manager – Azure Blob Storage

  • Jegan Devaraju – Group Engineering Manager – Azure Blob Storage



AI / ML Infrastructure



18 September @ 2:30PM PT



Troubleshooting/Debugging Issues on Linux SMB Client




  • Bharath S M – Senior Software Engineer



File Systems & Protocols



16 September – 18 September



Cloud Object Storage Plugfest




  • Scott Hoag – Principal Product Manager – Azure Object Storage

  • Pete Imming – Principal Product Manager – Azure Object Storage

  • Ryan Erdmann – Principal Software Engineer



Plugfest



16 September – 19 September



SMB3 Interoperability Lab




  • Azure Files engineering team



IO Lab


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