Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Archival storage systems Auditing and provenance Caching, replication, and consistency Cloud storage Data deduplication Database storage Distributed storage (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer) Empirical evaluation of storage systems Experience with deployed systems File system design Key-value and NoSQL storage Memory-only storage systems Mobile, personal, and home storage Parallel I/O and storage systems Power-aware storage architectures RAID and erasure coding Reliability, availability, and disaster tolerance Search and data retrieval Solid state storage technologies and uses (e.g., flash, PCM) Storage management Storage networking Storage performance and QoS Storage security The challenges of big data and data sciences