Note Paper Deadline: January 22, 2010

The 26th IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies
(MSST2010) will be held at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, May 3-7, 2010. This year's
conference will include a two-day research track May 6-7 of peer-reviewed
papers on the design, implementation, and analysis of storage systems. As
with prior MSST conferences, this conference will be a top-quality venue
for presenting the latest research and development in storage systems and
meeting with colleagues from industry, academia, and government.

We encourage the submission of research papers on the implementation,
design, and analysis of file and storage systems. Specific areas of
interest for MSST2010 include but are not limited to:

* storage systems architectures
* design and implementation of hybrid and other novel storage systems
* developments in storage technologies
* integration of solid state and other emerging technologies into
storage systems
* networks and protocols to support storage
* storage security, privacy, provenance, etc.
* techniques for building extremely scalable and distributed storage
systems
* approaches to long-term data preservation and management
* performance modeling and analysis of scalable storage systems
* caching and replication approaches
* storage in virtualized environments
* cloud storage and other globally scalable storage approaches
* metadata management
* experience with real systems

Interested authors are invited to submit a full 8-14 page paper or a short
3-5 page paper online. Submissions should be in two columns with 10 point
Times font and should be in PDF; specific formatting details are available
at the submission site. Final camera-ready papers, incorporating
reviewer comments, must be submitted in PDF format and must conform to the
formatting standards described in the Author's Kit, which will be
available at the conference site. Full 8-14 page papers will be
considered for full 30-minute presentations and short paper submissions of
3-5 pages in length will be considered for the poster session.
Instructions for on-line submission will be available through the
conference web site at http://iweb.tntech.edu/hexb/msst2010/

Questions about technical papers or possible submissions may be directed
to the program chairs Xubin (Ben) He at hexb@tntech.edu or Michael Factor
at factor@il.ibm.com.

Important Dates
* Paper submission: January 22, 2010
* Notification of acceptance: March 19, 2010
* Camera-ready paper submission: April 9, 2010
* Conference: May 6-7, 2010