FAST 2009

FAST 2009
7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technology
Event in series	FAST
Dates	2009/02/24 (iCal) - 2009/02/27
Homepage:	www.usenix.org/event/fast09/
Location
Location:	San Francisco, CA, USA
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Important dates
Papers:	2008/09/14
Submissions:	2008/09/14
Notification:	2008/11/05
Camera ready due:	2009/01/13
Table of Contents

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

• Margo Seltzer, Harvard University
• Ric Wheeler, Red Hat

Program Committee

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