Break on Through to the Other Side: Pooling Memory Elastically with RamRyder
Yanbo Zhou, Erci Xu, Dongjoo Seo, Adam Manzanares, Steven Swanson
USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), 2026.

Here, There and Everywhere: The Past, the Present and the Future of Local Storage in Cloud
Leping Yang, Yanbo Zhou, Gong Zeng, Li Zhang, Saisai Zhang, Ruilin Wu, Chaoyang Sun, Shiyi Luo, Wenrui Li, Keqiang Niu, Xiaolu Zhang, Junping Wu, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu, Mariusz Barczak, Wayne Gao, Ruiming Lu, Erci Xu, Guangtao Xue
USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST), 2026.
Erik Riedel Best Paper Award
[Paper] / [Slides] / [Talk]

Sleeping with One Eye Open: Fast, Sustainable Storage with Sandman
Yanbo Zhou, Erci Xu, Anisa Su, Jim Harris, Adam Manzanares, Steven Swanson
The Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), 2025.
[Paper] / [Slides]

CSAL: the Next-Gen Local Disks for the Cloud
Yanbo Zhou, Erci Xu, Li Zhang, Kapil Karkra, Mariusz Barczak, Wayne Gao, Wojciech Malikowski, Mateusz Kozlowski, Lukasz Lasek, Ruiming Lu, Feng Yang, Lilong Huang, Xiaolu Zhang, Keqiang Niu, Jiaji Zhu, Jiesheng Wu
The European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2024.
CSAL has been upstreamed into SPDK (Check our Source Code)
CSAL has been deployed in production cloud infrastructure (Check our White Paper and Story)
[Paper] / [Slides] / [Press] / [Project Page]
[Talks from my collaborators: Tech Field Day'22, Tech Field Day'23, SNIA SDC'22, SNIA SDC'23]

Spool: Reliable Virtualized NVMe Storage Pool in Public Cloud Infrastructure
Shuai Xue, Shang Zhao, Quan Chen, Gang Deng, Zheng Liu, Jie Zhang, Zhuo Song, Tao Ma, Yong Yang, Yanbo Zhou, Keqiang Niu, Sijie Sun, Minyi Guo
USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), 2020.
[Paper] / [Slides]

Write-aware Data Allocation on Heterogeneous Memory Architecture with Minimum Cost
Yanbo Zhou, Shouzhen Gu, Lixia Zheng, Edwin H.-M. Sha, Qingfeng Zhuge
IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing System and Applications (RTCSA), 2018.
[Paper]

Accelerating I/Os in virtual machines on physical NVMe SSDs via user space vhost target
Ziye Yang, Changpeng Liu, Yanbo Zhou, Xiaodong Liu, Gang Cao
IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Services Computing (SC2), 2018.
[Paper] / [Slides] / [Project Page]

Linux Open Source Storage: from Ceph to Container (Chinese Edition)
Publishing House of Electronics Industry (PHEI), 2019.
[Book Link]

A Media-Aware Cloud Storage Acceleration Layer (CSAL) Cache Solution with Intel Optane SSDs for Alibaba EBS Local Disk D3C Service
Yanbo Zhou, Li Zhang, Kapil Karkra, Wayne Gao, Chunhong Mao, Mariusz Barczak
Intel White Paper, 2023
[Paper]