As your istradisk can also be used as a high flexible and open Linux platform, you can gain root access to all of the device recources by upgrading to the Root/Admin package.
This package gives you a cheap opportunity to easily find out all about the flexibility of integration own applications or plugins.
Additionally this package makes it very easy to install and own automation scripts that are e.g. directly running own services like a version control server or simple scripts to tell your dynamic ip address to http://www.dyndns.org like realized with this example (still german, sorry).