FAST 2019 - 17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

The 17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '19) brings together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems. The program committee will interpret "storage systems" broadly; papers on low-level storage devices, distributed storage systems, and information management are all of interest. The conference will consist of technical presentations including refereed papers, Work-in-Progress (WiP) reports, poster sessions, and tutorials.
FAST accepts both full-length and short papers. Both types of submissions are reviewed to the same standards and differ primarily in the scope of the ideas expressed. Short papers are limited to half the space of full-length papers. The program committee will not accept a full paper on the condition that it is cut down to fit in the short paper page limit, 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
Big data, analytics, and data sciences
Caching, replication, and consistency
Cloud storage
Data deduplication
Database storage
Distributed and networked storage (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer)
Empirical evaluation of storage systems
Experience with deployed systems
File system design
High-performance file systems
Key-value and NoSQL storage
Memory-only storage systems
Mobile, personal, embedded, and home storage
Parallel I/O and storage systems
Power-aware storage architectures
RAID and erasure coding
Reliability, availability, and disaster tolerance
Search and data retrieval
Solid state storage technologies and uses (e.g., flash, byte-addressable NVM)
Storage management
Storage networking
Storage performance and QoS
Storage security