Some people confuse NAS with storage area networks (SANs); after all NAS is SAN spelled backwards. The technologies also share a number of common attributes. Both provide optimal consolidation, centralized data storage, and efficient file access. Both allow you to share storage among a number of hosts, support multiple different [...]

Network-attached storage (NAS) is a concept of shared storage on a network. It communicates using Network File System (NFS) for UNIX« environments, Common Internet File System (CIFS) for Microsoft Windows environments, FTP, http, and other networking protocols. NAS brings platform independence and increased performance to a network, as if it [...]