Network Attached Storage

Network Attached Storage

1. Storage devices that connect to a network

2. Dedicated file storage that enables multiple users and heterogeneous client devices to retrieve data from centralized disk capacity.

   • Storage
   • Networking
   • Computer
   • Operating system

3. Used to

   • use in large enterprises
   • the flexibility of redundant backup
   • collaborate and share data more effectively
   • faster flash storage,
   • highly scalable

4. TCP/IP networking

5. handles Un-structured data.

6. manages I/O requests for contiguous blocks of data.

7. file access protocols

   • Network File System(NFS)
   • Common Internet File System (CIFS)