Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for data forwarding storage. A user system communicates with a network of interconnected computer system nodes. The user system includes an input/output device including a user interface to initiate the sending of a request from the user system to store data on the network of nodes; to control at least one function of storage of the data in the network of nodes, wherein the data is continuously forwarded from one node memory to another node memory in the network without storing on any physical storage device in the network; and to display information regarding file storage in the network.