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{{Event
|Acronym=FAST 2009
|Title=7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology
|Series=FAST
|Type=Conference
|Field=Database
|Start date=2008/02/24
|End date=2008/02/27
|Homepage=www.usenix.org/event/fast09/
|City=San Francisco
|State=CA
|Country=USA
|Submission deadline=2008/09/14
|Paper deadline=2008/09/14
|Notification=2008/11/05
|Camera ready=2009/01/13
}}
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==
===Program Co-Chairs===
* [[has program chair::Margo Seltzer]], Harvard University
* [[has program chair::Ric Wheeler]], Red Hat

===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
Acronym	FAST 2009 +
Camera ready due	January 13, 2009 +
End date	February 27, 2009 +
Event in series	FAST +
Event type	Conference +
Has PC member	Sameer Ajmani +, Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau +, David L. Black +, Bill Bolosky +, James Bottomley +, David DeWitt +, Daniel Ellard +, Greg Ganger +, Valerie Henson +, Ethan Miller +, Alina Oprea +, James S. Plank +, Calton Pu +, Raju Rangaswami +, Narasimha Reddy +, Ohad Rodeh +, Ken Salem +, Jiri Schindler +, Bianca Schroeder +, Liuba Shrira +, Niraj Tolia + and Hakim Weatherspoon +
Has coordinates	37° 46' 44", -122° 25' 12"Latitude: 37.779025 Longitude: -122.41990555556 +
Has location city	San Francisco +
Has location country	Category:USA +
Has location state	CA +
Homepage	http://www.usenix.org/event/fast09/ +
IsA	Event +
Notification	November 5, 2008 +
Paper deadline	September 14, 2008 +
Start date	February 24, 2009 +
Submission deadline	September 14, 2008 +
Title	7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology +