Methods and systems for managing storage of data in a distributed system are disclosed. To manage storage of data in a distributed system, a data processing system may include a network interface controller (NIC). The network interface controller may present emulated storages that may be used for data storage. The emulated storage devices may utilize storage resources of storage devices. The storage devices may be remote to the NIC. To reduce communication bandwidth and/or use of resources of the storage devices, the NIC and/or NICs of other data processing systems may implemented a distributed cache for data stored in the storage devices. The NICs may implement a method of managing the distributed cache to maintain synchronization between the distributed cache and the data stored in the storage devices.