SYSTOR has traditionally welcomed academic and industrial papers in systems, including storage, cloud and distributed systems, networking, and systems security, broadly construed. SYSTOR encourages submissions that describe results from experimental system prototypes, as well as experience papers describing practical deployments and valuable lessons learned from them.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Systems and workload optimization for AI/ML
AI for systems
Rack-scale heterogeneous compute, scale-up fabric and orchestration
Sustainability/carbon footprint of computer and network systems
Systems security, privacy and trust
Cloud, edge, data center, and distributed systems
Big data systems and infrastructure
Embedded and real-time systems
Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems
Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability
File, object, block, KV, and other storage systems
Systems for emerging storage technologies
Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support
Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions
Virtualization and containerization
Performance evaluation and workload characterization
System deployment, operational experience, and production‑scale insights

SYSTOR 2026 solicits submissions in two separate categories:

Full Papers Track – original research, at most 12 pages, excluding references
Short Papers Track – original research, at most 5 pages, excluding references
Posters with Extended Abstract Track – original work presented as a poster, accompanied by an extended abstract in the conference proceedings