7th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

FEBRUARY 24–27, 2009 | SAN FRANCISCO, CA

Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS, IEEE Mass Storage Systems Technical Committee (MSSTC), and IEEE TCOS

FAST '09 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions
in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.
The 2009 program includes:

Training Program

Technical Sessions

• Updated! Clustered and Parallel Storage
System Technologies

Brent Welch and Marc Unangst, Panasas

• New! Security and Usability:
What Do We Know?

Simson Garfinkel,

Naval Postgraduate School

• Updated! Storage Class Memory, Technology, and Uses Richard Freitas, Winfried Wilcke, Bülent Kurdi, and Geoffrey Burr, IBM Almaden Research Center

Refereed Paper sessions on:
• Augmenting File System Functionality
• Meta-data and Optimization
• Distributed Storage
• Data Integrity
• and more
Work-in-Progress Reports and a
Poster Session

• New! Web-Scale Data Management Christopher Olston and Benjamin Reed, Yahoo! Research

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet with premier storage system researchers and practitioners
for three and one-half days of ground-breaking file and storage information and training.

Register by February 9, 2009, and save!

http://www.usenix.org/fast09/aq