Abstract Online social networking has become ubiquitous. For a social storage system to keep pace with increasing amounts of user data and activities, an intuitive solution is to deploy more servers. A challenge then is how to partition the data across the servers so that server efficiency and load balancing can both be achieved. Another challenge is how to provide data redundancy in the forms of replication or erasure coding in order to improve the system's data availability. These challenges are especially amplified for social data storage because we should take into account the data's social relationships which imply how often certain data are accessed together in a transaction. This is not to mention the dynamics of social data which changes frequently over time. State-of-the-art storage techniques are not socially-aware, not seriously taking into account these issues. This talk presents S-STORE, a novel socially-aware storage framework which consists of three key techniques: S-PUT for data partition, S-CLONE for data replication, and S-CODE for erasure data coding. In addition to theoretical concepts, preliminary evaluation results are also discussed. Speaker Bio Duc A. Tran is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, leading the Network Information Systems Laboratory (NISLab). He received a PhD degree from the University of Central Florida (Orlando, Florida). Dr. Tran's research interests are in the areas of networking and distributed systems. The results of his work have led to research awards from the NSF, Best Paper Award at ICCCN 2008, and Best Paper Recognition at DaWak 1999. Dr. Tran has served as a Review Panelist for the NSF, Editor for the Journal on Parallel, Emergent, and Distributed Systems (2010-date) and ISRN Communications Journal (2010-date), Guest-Editor for the Journal on Pervasive Computing and Communications (2009), TPC Co-Chair for CCNet (2010, 2011), GridPeer (2009, 2010, 2011), and IRSN 2009, and TPC Vice-Chair for AINA 2007. Dr. Tran is a Senior Member of the ACM and a Professional Member of the IEEE.