Overview

The 24th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '26) brings together researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of systems related to storage. The program committee interprets storage-related systems broadly: submissions on low-level storage devices, distributed storage systems, information and data management, as well as other systems interconnected with storage are all of interest. The conference will consist of technical presentations including refereed papers and poster sessions.

Topics

The topics of interest to FAST are various aspects of systems related to storage. These include and overlap with, but are not limited to, the following topics:

    Archival systems
    AI for storage and storage for AI
    Auditing and provenance
    Big data, analytics, and data sciences
    Caching, replication, and consistency
    Cloud, multi- and hybrid-cloud environments
    Data deduplication and compression
    Database storage
    Distributed and networked storage (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer)
    Emerging memory hierarchy design
    Empirical evaluation
    Experience with deployed-systems
    File system design
    Hardware design and prototypes
    HPC systems, including parallel I/O
    Key-value and NoSQL storage
    Memory-only storage systems
    Mobile, personal, embedded, and home storage
    Networking
    Novel and emerging storage technologies (e.g., DNA and glass storage)
    Performance and QoS
    Power-aware storage architectures
    RAID and erasure coding
    Reliability, availability, and disaster tolerance
    Search and data retrieval
    Security
    Storage Management