In classic Linux style, the new Rockstor Network Attached Storage solution from the team at Rockstor, Inc., is free, open-source and versatile. Supporting all popular file-sharing protocols, including NFS, Samba/CIFS and SFTP, Rockstor is available as a complete Linux distribution in ISO file format or a USB image and can be installed on bare metal or as a virtual machine. Rockstor's underlying Linux distro is CentOS and the supported filesystem is BTRFS. A pluggable Smart Probe mechanism and a growing list of smart probes provide detailed on-demand information about the various aspects of storage infrastructure. Rockstor supports advanced features for businesses of all sizes ranging from small to large enterprises—for example, snapshots, fast cloning, thin provisioning, dynamic volume management and replication over WAN. The solution comes with a clean, user-friendly Web UI to manage storage operations conveniently.
