| 2005 | USENIX | CHAMELEON: A Self-Evolving, Fully-Adaptive Resource Arbitrator for Storage Systems. | Sandeep Uttamchandani, Li Yin, Guillermo A. Alvarez, John Palmer, Gul A. Agha |
| 2003 | FAST | Faade: Virtual Storage Devices with Performance Guarantees. | Christopher R. Lumb, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez |
| 2003 | FAST | Using MEMS-Based Storage in Disk Arrays. | Mustafa Uysal, Arif Merchant, Guillermo A. Alvarez |
| 2003 | SRDS | Performance Virtualization for Large-Scale Storage Systems. | David D. Chambliss, Guillermo A. Alvarez, Prashant Pandey, Divyesh Jadav, Jian Xu, Ram Menon, Tzongyu P. Lee |
| 2002 | FAST | Selecting RAID Levels for Disk Arrays. | Eric Anderson, Ram Swaminathan, Alistair C. Veitch, Guillermo A. Alvarez, John Wilkes |
| 2002 | FAST | Aqueduct: Online Data Migration with Performance Guarantees. | Chenyang Lu, Guillermo A. Alvarez, John Wilkes |
| 2001 | MASCOTS | A Modular, Analytical Throughput Model for Modern Disk Arrays. | Mustafa Uysal, Guillermo A. Alvarez, Arif Merchant |
| 1998 | ISCA | Declustered Disk Array Architectures with Optimal and Near-Optimal Parallelism. | Guillermo A. Alvarez, Walter A. Burkhard, Larry J. Stockmeyer, Flaviu Cristian |
| 1997 | ICDCS | Centralized Failure Injection for Distributed, Fault-Tolerant Protocol Testing. | Guillermo A. Alvarez, Flaviu Cristian |
| 1997 | ISCA | Tolerating Multiple Failures in RAID Architectures with Optimal Storage and Uniform Declustering. | Guillermo A. Alvarez, Walter A. Burkhard, Flaviu Cristian |
| 1997 | SRDS | Applying Simulation to the Design and Performance Evaluation of Fault-tolerant Systems. | Guillermo A. Alvarez, Flaviu Cristian |