| CPC G06F 3/0629 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0607 (2013.01); G06F 3/0679 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. A computing device, comprising:
a computer bus;
a local host system coupled to the computer bus, the local host system configured to execute instructions of a data application; and
a storage product manufactured as a standalone computer component and connected to the computer bus, the storage product comprising:
a network interface operable on a computer network to receive incoming packets from a remote host system;
a processing device coupled to the network interface to generate storage access messages from the incoming packets and to identify:
a first subset of the storage access messages for processing by the data application; and
a second subset of the storage access messages not provided to the local host system; and
a local storage device;
wherein the processing device is configured to communicate the first subset of the storage access messages to the local host system;
wherein the first subset of the storage access messages includes write messages.
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