File systems and storage continue to be active focus areas for researchers and technologists in operating systems, computer architecture, distributed systems, networking, mobile computing, and computational science. FAST ʼ09 will bring together storage specialists from all of these areas in a unified, high-quality forum to explore new directions in the design, implementation, evaluation, and deployment of storage systems.

The conference will consist of one day of tutorials (four half-day classes) followed by two and a half days of technical presentations, including refereed papers, work-in-progress reports, and a poster session.