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.

Submissions will be judged on their originality, technical merit, topical relevance, and impact.
Topics:

The Research Program Committee encourages the submission of full and short research papers on the implementation, design, and analysis of file and storage systems.

Specific areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
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


Submission Instructions:

MSST 2026 invites previously unpublished short (4-6 pages, not including references) and full (up to 14 pages, not including references) papers. Short papers must be complete work, not “Work-in-progress”
The review process is double-blind.
Submissions are via EasyChair
AI 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 (LINK) for any questions.
Important Dates:
Research Track Submission Deadline:
April 14, 2026
Author Notifications:
May 1, 2026
Final Manuscripts Due:
May 8, 2026
Conference:
Jun 1-5, 2026
(Research Track: Jun 4 & 5)
Conference Organizers:
General Chair:
Darrell D.E. Long

Research Program Committee Co-Chairs:
Avani Wildani, Cloudflare
Jim Hughes, Apple


Local Arrangements:

Ahmed Amer, Santa Clara University