Important Dates

* Paper submissions due: September 12, 2008, 9:00 p.m. EDT (firm deadline)
* Notification of acceptance: November 5, 2008
* Final papers due: January 13, 2009
* Work-in-Progress Reports/Poster Session proposals due: January 30, 2009

The Call for Papers, with submission guidelines, is now available at
http://www.usenix.org/fast09/cfpa/
7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09)

February 24–27, 2009
San Francisco, CA

Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association, in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), and IEEE TCOS

Overview

The 7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '09) brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems. The conference will consist of two and a half days of technical presentations, including refereed papers, Work-in-Progress reports, and a poster session.

Topics

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Archival storage systems
* Caching, replication, and consistency
* Database storage issues
* Designs with emerging storage devices
* Distributed I/O (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer)
* Empirical evaluation of storage systems
* Experience with deployed systems
* Innovative file or data storage system design
* Manageability
* Mobile and personal storage
* Parallel I/O
* Reliability, availability, disaster tolerance
* Scalability
* Security
* Storage as a service
* Storage networking
* Virtualization