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Part 1: Background Information (PA Computer Fair, Bio, Our Idea, School Board, etc.) Creating our School’s Website (on Linux) Bonjour le monde! My name is Andrew Regan, and I am a senior at Central Cambria High School in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. I have been a fan...
OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Conference wrapped up last week here in Portland, Oregon and with over 4,700 attendees, was the largest OSCON to date. I stationed myself at the FreeBSD Foundation booth to help answer the various BSD questions that came up and enjoyed...
iXsystems recently underwent a logo overhaul. After a solid fifteen year run, the oval blue surfboard with the beastie head above the “i” is being retired and has been replaced by a modernized version of the surfboard tilted on its side behind the iX™ with a sleek,...
EMC is known in the industry as one of the longstanding archetypes of commercial software. They are also known for restricting access to knowledge and information around their storage products. They certainly aren’t what’s considered “open” by anyone’s definition....
I am proud to say that iXsystems received the Workplace Safety Award from the Controllable Premium National Education Association (CPRNEA). You might have read my recent blog post about the recognition iXsystems received from an Intel VP for our work in the open...
The annual North American Intel® Solutions Summit was held last week in Dallas, Texas and iXsystems was invited to attend. I attended on behalf of iXsystems and met with fellow Intel Partners from around the country. It would be impossible to share everything I had a...
iXsystems staff attended LinuxFest NW on behalf of the FreeBSD Project this past weekend. Bellingham Technical College was packed with nearly 2000 attendees, the largest turnout ever for this show. “For being in a town that is quiet, spread out, and full of green...
I don’t consider myself a salesperson. People are always shocked when they find out I’m in sales. I’m not a super extroverted person. I don’t have finely coiffured hair or wear lots of gold. Sales people generally get a bad rep. At iXsystems, our sales process is...
Hi, this is Matt Finney and I’m the Director of Sales. I’ve been at iXsystems for almost 8 years and I’ve seen a lot of cool technology in that time. I came here with a basic understanding of computers. I knew what RAM was. I knew what a processor was. I quickly found...
How did iXsystems get its start? I get asked this question a lot. Sure, you could look it up on Wikipedia or Google, but why get the secondhand version when you could get it straight from the source? That’s me, by the way. I was working at BSDi in 2001 when they sold...
