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Join us in San Jose, CA, February 14–17, 2012, for the 10th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies.

FAST '12 brings together storage system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.

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The FAST program will again be offering tutorials. Taking place on Tuesday, February 14, the four half-day tutorials give you the opportunity to learn from leaders in the storage industry, including:

• Clustered and Parallel Storage System Technologies (UPDATED FOR 2012)
  Brent Welch, Panasas
  
  
• Building a Cloud Storage System (NEW!)
  Jeff Darcy, Red Hat
  
  
• Storage Class Memory: Technologies, Systems, and Applications (NEW!)
  Rich Freitas and Larry Chiu,
  IBM Almaden Research Center
  
  
• Understanding the I/O of Columnar and NoSQL Database (NEW!)
  Jiri Schindler, NetApp

Beginning on Wednesday, February 15, the technical program includes 26 technical papers, Work-in-Progress reports (WiPs), and two poster sessions.

The papers represent some of the outstanding work in the area, with topics including flash and SSDs, mobile storage, cloud, and more.

FAST '12 promises to be an exciting conference presenting leading examples of current research and a strong vision of the future of file and storage technologies.

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