SYSTOR has traditionally welcomed academic and industrial papers in systems, including storage, cloud and distributed systems, networking, and systems security, broadly construed. SYSTOR encourages submissions that describe results from experimental system prototypes, as well as experience papers describing practical deployments and valuable lessons learned from them.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Systems and workload optimization for AI/ML
    AI for systems
    Rack-scale heterogeneous compute, scale-up fabric and orchestration
    Sustainability/carbon footprint of computer and network systems
    Systems security, privacy and trust
    Cloud, edge, data center, and distributed systems
    Big data systems and infrastructure
    Embedded and real-time systems
    Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems
    Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
    File, object, block, KV, and other storage systems
    Systems for emerging storage technologies
    Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support
    Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions
    Virtualization and containerization
    Performance evaluation and workload characterization
    System deployment, operational experience, and production‑scale insights

SYSTOR 2026 solicits submissions in two separate categories:

    Full Papers Track – original research, at most 12 pages, excluding references
    Short Papers Track – original research, at most 5 pages, excluding references
    Posters with Extended Abstract Track – original work presented as a poster, accompanied by an extended abstract in the conference proceedings