MSST 2026 will be held at Santa Clara University, in the heart of Silicon Valley, and offer a full week dedicated to storage technology through both an industrial and a research track.  The MSST research track provides a forum for top-quality original storage research, a place where academic researchers and industry practitioners can share findings and challenges in storage technology

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers and Short papers describing the implementation, design, and analysis of file and storage systems

List of Topics

• Application- and workload-specific storage
• Archival and backup storage
• Auditing and provenance
• Deduplication and compression
• Caching, tiering, and replication
• Data protection and recovery
• Disaggregated and distributed storage
• Storage on the edge
• Energy-efficient storage
• Exascale storage architecture and design
• Experiences with real-world systems and data storage challenges
• File systems
• Flash/SSD
• Heterogeneous memory/storage systems
• Memory-centric storage systems
• New storage hardware, DPUs, persistent memory
• Next-generation storage (DNA, glass)
• Performance modeling and prediction for storage
• Usability and quality of service for storage
• Security and privacy of storage
• Storage for emerging applications
• Storage reliability, erasure coding
• Storage virtualization
• Storage systems for ML and applying ML to storage systems

Committees

PC Chairs

• Avani Wildani, Cloudflare
• James Hughes, Apple

Program Committee

• TBA

Venue

MSST 2026 is being held at the Locatelli Center on the campus of Santa Clara University. 

Sponsors