25th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2027)

The 25th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2027) is dedicated to new directions in the implementation, design, deployment and evaluation of storage systems such as SSD (Solid State Drives), Flash memory, file systems, Cloud, Storage Controllers and more.

Key Topics

• RAID and erasure coding
• Solid state storage technologies and uses (e.g., flash, PCM)
• Mobile, personal, and home storage
• Cloud storage
• Data deduplication
• Storage performance and QoS
• File system design
• Experience with deployed systems
• Search and data retrieval
• Memory-only storage systems
• Distributed I/O (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer)
• Database storage
• Empirical evaluation of storage systems
• Storage security
• Caching, replication, and consistency
• Auditing and provenance
• Storage networking
• Storage management
• Key-value and NoSQL storage
• Power-aware storage architectures
• The challenges of "big data"
• Archival storage systems
• Parallel I/O
• Reliability, availability, and disaster tolerance

Who should Attend

Storage system researchers and practitioners.