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iXsystems attended the Container World 2017 Conference in late February in Santa Clara, CA. Container World started off with training on the basics of containers and their uses, packing the room to capacity. The afternoon ‘Intermediate Containers Workshop’ allowed...
There are lots of ways to get help with FreeNAS®. Whether you are a hobbyist or an aspiring storage engineer, you are probably familiar with the FreeNAS Handbook, Forums, Blogs, Videos and IRC channel as sources of help when you need it. These self-serve resources...
Here is our annual list of the most read articles of this year. In 2016, our goal was to increase your understanding of ZFS technology, so we wrote a bunch of blogs and created a follow-up to the hugely popular ZFS webinar to cover some of the advanced uses of ZFS. Here is a list of the top 10 most viewed articles on iXsystems.com and on FreeNAS.org in 2016 based on our analytics. This list represents a wide range of subjects that are contained in the many articles we wrote. To read all of our articles go to https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/ and http://www.freenas.org/blog/
There are just 7 more days until the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier BSD Conference. MeetBSD California 2016 will take place at the birthplace of BSD, UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus on November 11-12 and there is still time to get registered!
A recent article by sysadmin blogger Trevor Pott in The Register discusses how he tried to break TrueNAS and came away impressed instead.
One of our favorite lines from the article is “iXsystems produce a storage array that is decent enough to entice away some existing users of the likes of EMC, NetApp, Dell or HP. Honestly, that’s not something I thought possible going into this review. It’s a nice surprise.”
Moore’s law continues to drive down the costs of hard disk drives, reducing the capital cost of acquiring data storage solutions for your business. I think we can all agree that cost reduction is always great for business. There are two types of cost reduction: Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) and Operational Expenditure (OPEX). CAPEX is easy to measure, since it is the cost of the product. Many companies don’t fully consider the overall OPEX when replacing a storage array, resulting in underestimating the long-term costs of implementing and maintaining a data storage solution over the course of its lifetime. Multiple Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) studies by industry analysts DCIG, Gartner, and Parity Research found that a storage array actually costs more to operate than to acquire.
Members of the iXsystems team recently attended Ohio Linux Fest 2016, staffing the FreeBSD booth in the Expo area and giving presentations. Ken Moore, Senior TrueOS Software Engineer, writes about his experience there along with all the developments from the BSD, TrueOS and Linux worlds that were presented.
In September of 2015, Andrew Regan wrote an article about receiving a server from iXsystems to run the new Central Cambria School District website. Today, the new website is officially finished!
Backup is like insurance -- you only need it when something goes wrong. The value of backups is to shorten restore times and get a business back to work quicker. Our customers agree, as customer surveys show that more than half of them use TrueNAS to store their...
A year has gone by already and guess what—we've grown yet again! We've had the best four quarters of our corporate life and finished off the 2015 calendar year surpassing even our amazing 2014 high water mark. It was fast-paced, exciting, challenging, and full of...
