FAST'25 — 23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies

The 23rd USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST '25) 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.

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
• Management
• 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