Network Storage

Network storage

Network storage is any type of computer storage that involves accessing information over a computer network. Network storage arguably allows to centralize the information management in an organization, and to reduce the duplication of information. Network storage includes:

  Network-attached storage is secondary or tertiary storage attached to a computer which another computer can access at file level over a local-area network, a private wide-area network, or in the case of online file storage, over the Internet.
  Storage area network provides other computers with storage capacity over a network, the crucial difference between network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area Networks (SAN) is the former presents and manages file systems to client computers, whilst a SAN provides access to disks at block addressing level, leaving it to attaching systems to manage data or file systems within the provided capacity.
  Network computers are computers that do not contain internal secondary storage devices. Instead, documents and other data are stored on a network-attached storage.