# Developing applications that talk to storage system

Most Windows and UNIX applications does not need to do anything special to talk to storage system, which is designed to convince the application that the files they are seeing are local. Developers writing server management applications, on the other hand, might want to license the Manage ONTAP SDK.

Related Topics

- Hardware

- WAFL, Snapshot copies, and derivative software

- WAFL Storage Hierarchy

- RAID 4 and RAID 6

- Networking and Clustering

- Networking Configurations

- MultiStore

- File Sharing

- Protocols

- Unified Storage

- Multiprotocol File Permissions

- Storage Resources Management