FAST 2009

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

Committees
This could not possibly have been more hepulfl!

Program Committee

 * has PC member::Sameer Ajmani, Google
 * has PC member::Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
 * has PC member::David L. Black, EMC
 * has PC member::Bill Bolosky, Microsoft Research, Redmond
 * has PC member::James Bottomley, Hansen Partnership
 * has PC member::David DeWitt, Microsoft, Madison
 * has PC member::Daniel Ellard, BBN Technologies
 * has PC member::Greg Ganger, Carnegie Mellon University
 * has PC member::Valerie Henson, Red Hat
 * has PC member::Ethan Miller, University of California, Santa Cruz
 * has PC member::Alina Oprea, RSA Security/EMC
 * has PC member::James S. Plank, University of Tennessee
 * has PC member::Calton Pu, Georgia Institute of Technology
 * has PC member::Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University
 * has PC member::Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University
 * has PC member::Ohad Rodeh, IBM Research, Haifa
 * has PC member::Ken Salem, University of Waterloo
 * has PC member::Jiri Schindler, NetApp
 * has PC member::Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
 * has PC member::Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University
 * has PC member::Niraj Tolia, HP Labs
 * has PC member::Hakim Weatherspoon, Cornell University