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 (up to 14 pages, not including references) and Short papers (4-6 pages, not including references), not previously unpublished are invited. Short papers must be complete work, not “Work-in-progress”
• The review process is double-blind.
• For manuscript preparation, we recommend following the standard IEEE conference proceedings format (in US Letter size). Templates for preparing manuscripts in that format can be found here.
• Submissions are via easyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=msst26

AI Use Policy: MSST encourages responsible use of LLM technology.  Any LLM use in preparing the submission must be disclosed.  LLMs are permitted for editing or translation, but should not be used to generate significant quantities of text or to generate graphs.  Please reach out to the PC Chairs at at msst26 <at> easychair.org for any questions.

List of Topics Include

• 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

Research PC Co-Chairs

• Avani Wildani, Cloudflare
• James Hughes, Apple

Research Program Committee

• Keira Adams
• Ahmed Amer
• Pranav Bhandari
• Daniel Bittman
• Si Chen
• Yu Hua
• Maria Joseph Israel
• Shiva Jahangiri
• Jay Lofstead
• Dev Purandare
• Thomas Schwarz
• Galen Shipman
• Dimitris Skourtis
• Swaminathan Sundararaman
• Vasily Tarasov
• Jonathan Tischio
• Theodore Wong

Venue

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

Sponsors