What is Network Storage? (Introduction)
Before directly navigating towards knowing What is Network Storage, let’s see how network storage is invented. As you know we were lucky enough to witness the rise of technology. Multimedia technology is one of them which enjoyed unimaginable rise. We have seen tremendous change in multimedia technology, let us consider an example of mobile multimedia technology that requires a sort of local storage device, in the form of a memory card to store multimedia files.
Storage devices are requiring to store objects such as text, image, video, audio, etc. Traditional storage devices include pen drives, hard drives, SSD any many more. They are heavily used in today’s Personal computers, Laptops, Mobiles phones but they are having two most important problems associated with them, these are
- Sharing is not possible
- Cannot Scalable
We have used a Nokia3310 up to today’s latest android and iPhone mobile handsets. If we compare the image size of the Nokia 6600 and the latest mobile phones then we observe that image size increases about 5 times as the camera megapixel increases. The same case happens in the term of size of the video. Latest video technologies include 4K resolution, increased frame rate, 3D/5D/7D immersion and thus it requires tremendous local storage memory of about several hundred MB for about 1 min of video. Overall the memory requirement of individual users increases at ultra-high speed and to cope up with this speed one requires a very huge amount of external storage.
New solutions such as external drives were very famous among users which overcome the problem but this strategy again began to inefficient as user method began to change. Nowadays user is multi-device and globally roaming thus external storage method strategy will not be enough and useful. Also, this is a very costly solution and not feasible too.
To tackle this problem researchers and engineers have coined the new term that is network storage technology. It’s a type of virtual memory and can be accessed through an internet connection irrespective of device, irrespective of location.
What is Network Storage? (Technically Concept)
Network storage is simply virtual storage but seems like physical storage that we are going to use. The storage devices are remotely placed and can be accessed with the help of the internet thus network connectivity is most important here while considering this type of storages. It removes storage limitation and availability problems which are worthy concern in terms of physical storage devices
Network storage is a very important aspect while considering the individual or business sector. Due to proper storage management techniques, the small-scale industries can concentrate on their improvement of server performance & availability of their web applications. Today we are having multiple flavours of network storage technologies, some of which are Cloud, NAS, and SAN, etc. We will see each of these in brief and will head towards block storage.
