[Storage-research-list] reminder - CFP - special issue of OS Review - due 1 november

[Erik.Riedel at seagate.com]

[Folks, I encourage you to consider submitting for this special
issue.  I would really like to get some submissions on storage
security - are we really past the days of "johnny can't encrypt"
with realistic, efficient and usable technology?  I would also
like some discussion of where grid storage meets distributed
storage - have we advanced the research state-of-the-art past
what AFS used to do? Finally, consumer storage has not been
much-covered in the research community. Most of the research
focus is on enterprise storage, although we all use more varied
and bigger high-capacity storage gadgets each day.  - Erik]


Call For Submissions - Operating Systems Review Special Issue

File and Storage Systems, January 2007

The fifth special topics issue of Operating Systems Reviews
will be related to File and Storage Systems and Erik Riedel
(erik.riedel @ seagate.com) will be the guest editor.  For
this issue, we seek submissions on all aspects of file
systems, storage systems and storage devices.  This includes
large-scale or Internet-scale storage systems, data center
storage, and personal storage.  Short overviews of mature
projects and experience reports are welcome, as well as
papers outlining nascent ideas for new directions, and
everything in between.  Topics of interest include:

  - principles for self-organizing storage systems
  - storage security and data privacy
  - redefinition of storage services for large-scale storage
  - robust, fault-tolerant and self-healing storage
  - experience with novel storage-intensive applications
  - experience with deployed large-scale storage
  - new problems and novel contexts for file or storage systems

Papers will be reviewed by the guest editor with the
assistance of outside referees.  The primary criteria for
acceptance are broader interest to the systems community,
potential consequences for systems builders and clarity of
exposition.  Position papers are welcome, as are short (1-
to 2-page) notes ("rants") on commonly encountered problems
with today's systems or ongoing storage-related work.  This
special issue does not have a predefined format or a target
number of accepted papers, but there is a soft cap of
roughly 84 pages of text devoted to papers.  Papers should
be double column including figures and tables in standard
ACM format and submitted as printable PDF.

If you are interested in submitting to this issue of OSR,
please send email to erik.riedel @ seagate.com with a brief
description of your submission by November 1, 2006.  The
final submission will be due November 15, 2006.

Additional information at:

http://www.sigops.org/osr.html

Cheers,

Erik

Erik Riedel
Seagate Research
Pittsburgh, PA