USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2018)

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