HotStorage 2012 - 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage12)

In its 4th edition, HotStorage will continue to showcase the cutting edge in storage research. Over the past few years, storage has been changing like never before. Architectures are evolving rapidly, with many fundamental shifts. Disk-based networked storage is embracing hybrid and tiered models. Meanwhile, we are seeing disruption in multiple forms: flash-only networked storage, node-local low-latency storage, and the emerging NoSAN and NoFS paradigms. Flash continues to change the storage landscape and new memory storage technologies are poised to disrupt the storage stack even further. Virtualization and multi-core hardware continue to place increasingly greater demands on storage, and public and private clouds raise many new questions. "Big Data," the rise of distributed key-value stores (such as NoSQL), and the proliferation of storage devices in consumer electronics all offer exciting opportunities and challenges.
We expect that workshop submissions will advocate fresh, unorthodox approaches advancing the state of the art in file and storage systems design. Ideas presented in the workshop are expected to lead to work that will appear in top-tier systems conferences in the future. The HotStorage workshop aims to provide a forum for the cutting edge in storage research where researchers can exchange ideas and engage in discussions with their colleagues.
Topics
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Archival storage
Cloud storage
Caching, replication, and data consistency
Energy-efficient storage
File system design
Key-value and NoSQL storage
Mobile storage
New memory hierarchies
New storage architectures
Solid-state storage
Storage at home
Storage security
Storage performance modeling and prediction
Storage quality of service
Storage usability
The challenges of "Big Data"
Transactional database storage