The Storage as the network or the network as the storage. 

Digital Storage is a necessity for organizations that want to store content from business and operational need. The storage depends on the data and the needs around its processing. We referred to some of them in the article here. Since this has changed quite a bit, organizations generally have adopted a variety of forms of storage over the years resulting in different appliances, hardware, stacks, solutions, virtualized data centers and a host of technologies – new and old. In any organization, storage is a turf war with vendors competing for a slice of the pie.  

Networking on the other hand has always been about connectivity bridging huge geographical distances  or providing mobility. The rise of cloud computing is testament to the ubiquity of networking and the reliance of both compute and storage on networking.  In addition, networking gives us the abilities to dictate terms and policies on the transport and securing data in transit. Tunneling is one such example where network packets get shipped with additional label that allows it to be routed through a public network and making it all the more convenient for setting up utmost security even over public fabric. In addition authentication and encryption factors can be governed for the transport. 

Traditionally these have been two different concerns just like compute and storage. Networking more or less meant point to point communication for end users with relays in between and storage gave the assurance that the data that arrives over the network is not lost.  

A lot of factors have changed in between: we added geographical regions for storage and datastores, replication, data guarantees that evolved from databases to eventual consistency and processing requirements changed from network access storage on one node to a large cluster of nodes. The domains of compute, network and storage have overlapped to form popular and notable technologies.