What a year it’s been—2014 saw the release of FreeNAS 9.3 with new capabilities, the FreeNAS Mini platform that is now being sold on Amazon and doing extraordinarily well, and finally, the launch of our new TrueNAS platform during the Summer. Last year we saw the...
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FreeNAS 9.3 Features – Support for VMware VAAI
With all the excitement over the big changes introduced in FreeNAS 9.3 (including the new update manager and the decision to completely move to ZFS), it’s easy to overlook some of the other features that were added during the release. One of those features we’d like...

The Case for TrueNAS
As part of my role at iXsystems, I talk to many customers, analysts and engineering types. What I hear most often is “who is iXsystems” and “what is TrueNAS”? Let me give you a quick overview of iXsystems history and why many people are using TrueNAS instead of legacy...
5 Reasons Why a Business Should Not Use Legacy Storage
The world has changed and a business must face the eruption of data from “The Internet of Things”, BYOD, social media, and Big Data. Many businesses must be agile and flexible yet do more with less. The storage market is large yet dominated by a handful of legacy...