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.