“Information Technology in the Post-Pandemic Future”
Post-pandemic era is coming. Today, our CAISS 26th annual conference will be exploring information technology in the post-pandemic future. Metaverse may be the new chapter of human beings. How does Meta Platforms Inc tackle storage in the future cloud? Cryptocurrency will be used as an alternative to paper money and gold as a trend. A storage based cryptocurrency, Chia, is becoming more and more popular. How is storage used to implement the Chia cryptocurrency? In addition, what is the current state of Semiconductor? What about the future of storage in the zettabyte era? We’re so excited to know the answers.
Date: Nov. 13th, 2021 (Saturday)
Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Venue: Virtual Zoom meeting
MC: Henry Gai
Dr. Carl Che
CTO, HDD Business Unit, Western Digital
Dr. Xiaodong Che is a Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of the Hard drive Business Unit at Western Digital Corporation. He and his team are responsible for setting the data storage technology strategy for company BU’s long-term growth.
Dr. Che received a Ph.D at UC San Diego in condensed matter physics. He was a founding board member of the Chinese American Information Storage Society (CAISS), and was elected as an IEEE Sr. member in 2007.
Title of Talk: A Data Storage Journey
Abstract: Data storage is the backbone of the information society we are in. Led by HDD and then joined by SSD, data storage has grown in unit capacity from megabyte to petabyte in the last sixty years. As storage moves into the Zettabyte era, the gap between data growth and affordability is opening up. We are now facing another innovator’s dilemma: when, how and which new technology will be the next big disruptive one. To prepare for this growing challenge, we need to better understand the nature of the growing data landscape. In the future, more storage tiering will be necessary to support the exponential growth, the diversity of data types, and the “longevity” of the data life cycle.
The data storage future is exciting for true technical innovators and visionary leaders. Dr. Che will share his perspective on the Zettabyte era based on his journey with data.
Jin Zhang
Director of Engineering, Facebook
Named Women of Influence by Silicon Valley Business Journal, Jin Zhang is a technology enthusiast with both Fortune 500 and startup experience in enterprise software. She delivered 8-figure revenue at IBM, led her engineering colleagues to Apigee’s IPO (since then acquired by Google), built hybrid cloud products at Amazon, and is now Director of Engineering at Facebook. As a TEDx speaker and also a keynote speaker, Jin owns multiple patents in analytics, and spends her spare time teaching product building and innovation at Stanford University (CSP). A native of Inner Mongolia, Jin is passionate about promoting diversity in the technology industry.
Title of Talk: Solving the Storage Challenge by Going Beyond Storage Hardware
Abstract: IDC predicted that data stored in the cloud will reach 100 zettabytes by 2025. Such significant data growth presented significant challenges to the storage technology community. In addition to hardware innovation, software can be a great leverage for problem-solving. This talk will present how Meta tackles the growth demand for data storage through hardware accelerator, software optimization and on-device computing.
- https://engineering.fb.com/2019/03/14/data-center-engineering/accelerating-infrastructure/
- https://www.usenix.org/conference/fast21/presentation/pan
- “Optimizing storage efficiency for Facebook video processing”, presented at Video@scale Conference 2021 (00:39:09 – 00:54:25)
Brandon Wang
VP, Synopsys
Brandon Wang is a Vice President at Synopsys, overseeing corporate level growth strategies including M&A, strategic partnerships, and new ventures. Prior to that, he served various senior roles at Cadence and ARM in the chief strategy office, marketing, solution engineering and R&D. An Electrical and Computer Engineer by training, Brandon holds 10 patents, and has published at 20+ IEEE conferences, in journal papers and invited talks; He also has an MBA degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Title of Talk: State of Semiconductor Industry, and Opportunities Ahead
Abstract: Chip shortage has been on the headlines across the world, from wall street to industry supply chains. What causes this shortage? It is opportunities of real demand increases, or a short term soap opera alike of toilet crisis last year? The speaker will shed some light on current semiconductor market and growth data, and mega trends that drive the growth. He will also share global investment and M&A activities in the chip industry, and touch on some real hot segments such as automotive and AI.
Jonmichael Hands
VP of Storage Business Development, Chia Project
Jonmichael Hands is currently serving as the VP of Storage Business Development at Chia. He partners with the storage vendors for Chia optimized product development, market modeling, and Chia blockchain integration. JM spent the last ten years at Intel in the Non-Volatile Memory Solutions group working on product line management, strategic planning, and technical marketing for the Intel data center SSDs. In addition, he served as the chair for NVM Express (NVMe), SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) SSD special interest group, and Open Compute Project for open storage hardware innovation. JM started his storage career at Sun Microsystems designing storage arrays (JBODs) and holds an electrical engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines.
Title of Talk: Chia – storage is the key to secure, sustainable programmable internet money
Abstract:
Chia Network, Inc., is an energy-efficient decentralized blockchain founded by Bram Cohen, the inventor of peer to peer network protocol BitTorrent. Chia is an attempt to improve on Proof of Work-based blockchains with a new consensus algorithm we call Proof of Space and Time, leveraging underutilized storage capacity to secure the blockchain. Chia has captured the attention of the storage market, with the Netspace reaching over 40 exabytes in a few short months since its launch – becoming one of the most decentralized cryptocurrencies in the world. Chia has founded on the premise that storage is an underutilized asset and a perfect medium to secure the future of global finance. Chia was designed to be secure, sustainable programmable internet money usable by everyone from individuals to governments, multinationals, and financial institutions.
