A process for the artificial aging of stones, particularly concrete blocks, clinker blocks and natural stones, provides for the stones to be applied to a support. Peer-to-peer exchanges of data between private computers is made possible while providing seamless, firewall-compliant connectivity. Firmware for the common data storage interface assigns a unique identifier that classifies an IO request as a local or remote networked IO request and adds the IO request to a common stack for local and remote networked data storage elements.