Welcome to SYSTOR, starting Sunday June 30 at the IBM Research - Haifa auditorium.

Participation is FREE, but registration is required - click here to register.

On Sunday, June 30 at 10.30am join us for the opening keynote from Brian Levine (University of Massachusetts Amherst) on "Fighting Internet-based Sexual Exploitation Crimes Against Children."

You are invited to the SYSTOR beer garden and poster session on Sunday at 5pm. Come help us select the SYSTOR best poster.

On Monday, July 1 at 9:00am, please join us for Brian Cooper's (Google) keynote about "Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database."

On Tuesday, July 2, join us for Thomas Gross's (ETH Zurich) keynote on "Big Data -- Little Software?"

Best Full Paper
"A Scalable Deduplication and Garbage Collection Engine for Incremental Backup"
Dilip N Simha (Stony Brook University & ITRI), Maohua Lu (IBM Almaden Research Labs), and Tzi-cker Chiueh (Stony Brook University & ITRI)

Best Short Paper
"Examining Extended and Scientific Metadata for Scalable Index Designs"
Aleatha Parker-Wood, Brian Madden, Michael McThrow, Darrell D.E. Long, Ian F. Adams, and Avani Wildani (University of California, Santa Cruz)

Best Poster
"Virtual Remote I/O (vRIO)"
Yossi Kuperman (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and IBM Research - Haifa), Abel Gordon, Joel Nider (IBM Research - Haifa), Dan Tsafrir (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)