NexentaStor is a unified storage software application that enables organizations to use their own server and storage hardware to deliver a unified storage service, essentially turning unified storage into an application that you deploy on your hardware.

One of the advantages that quickly becomes apparent with this type of storage solution is it not only unifies, as other unification systems do, at the protocol level; CIFS, NFS, iSCSI and soon Fibre are all supported, it also unifies at the storage mechanics level. This means that it can be used to unify different storage manufacturers’ products under a single system as well as the protocols. This is contrary to other alleged unified storage products that just unify at the protocol level but force you to buy their storage.