The 8th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2013) will be held from July 17 − 19, 2013 at Xi'an, Shaanxi, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. NAS 2013 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas. NAS has been successfully held in Xiamen in 2012 (NAS'12), Dalian in 2011(NAS'11), Macau in 2010(NAS'10), Zhang Jia Jie in 2009 (NAS'09), Chongqing in 2008 (NAS'08), Guilin in 2007 (NAS'07), and Shenyang in 2006 (NAS'06).