Network attached storage architecture

@article{Gibson2000NetworkAS,
  title={Network attached storage architecture},
  author={Garth A. Gibson and Rodney Van Meter},
  journal={Commun. ACM},
  year={2000},
  volume={43},
  pages={37-45},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:207644891}
}
How emerging technology may blur the network-centric distinction between NAS and SAN is about how the decreasing specialization of SAN protocols promises SAN-like devices on Ethernet network hardware.
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