Join us in San Jose, CA, February 12–15, 2013, for the 11th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies. FAST '13 brings together storage-system researchers and practitioners to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems in a unified, high-quality forum.

Just announced! Kai Li, Princeton University, will deliver the Keynote Address.

Can't make it in person? Check out the live streaming options.

Four half-day tutorials taking place on Tuesday, February 12 will give you the opportunity to learn from leaders in the storage industry:

• Building a Cloud Storage System, by Jeff Darcy, Red Hat
• Erasure Coding for Storage Applications, by James S. Plank, University of Tennessee; and Cheng Huang, Microsoft Research
• Data DeDuplication: Technologies, Trends, and Challenges by Sudipta Sengupta, Microsoft Research
• Design Trade-offs of CAP Theorem & Beyond: Understanding Implications of Design Choices in a Software-defined Shared Nothing Storage Architecture by Sandeep Uttamchandani, VMware