FAST 2013 - 11th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

Beginning this year, FAST will also feature a short-paper track. Short papers must represent completed work and will be reviewed to the same quality standards as full papers. They should describe smaller ideas that can be fully expressed in half the space of a full-length paper. Short papers will be published in the proceedings, and authors will be allocated a (shorter) talk slot during the conference. The program committee will not accept a full paper on the condition that it is cut down to fit in a short paper slot, nor will it invite short papers to be extended to full length. Submissions will be considered only in the category in which they are submitted.
Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Archival storage systems
Auditing and provenance
Caching, replication, and consistency
Cloud storage
Data-intensive applications
Database storage
Distributed I/O (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer)
Empirical evaluation of storage systems
Experience with deployed systems
File-system design
Key-value and "nosql" storage
Mobile and personal storage
Parallel I/O
Power-aware storage architectures
Reliability, availability, and disaster tolerance
Search and data retrieval
Solid state storage technologies and uses (e.g., flash, PCM)
Storage for virtualized environments
Storage management
Storage networking
Storage performance and QoS
Storage security
The challenges of "big data"