Eighth NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies in cooperation with Seventeenth IEEE Symposium on Mass Storage Systems, MSS 2000, College Park, MD, USA, March 27-30, 2000

This Conference provides a forum for discussion of issues relevant to the management of large volumes of data. The Conference encourages all interested organizations to discuss long term mass storage requirements and experiences in fielding solutions. Emphasis is on current and future practical solutions addressing issues in data management, storage systems and media, data acquisition, long term retention of data, and data distribution.