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The tenth annual OpenZFS Developer Summit took place on October 24-25 at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, California. iX was a Gold sponsor of the event and also provided staff resources in the planning and delivery of the event. This developer...
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. TrueNAS M-Series: The Next Generation In April 2018, iXsystems announced its next generation enterprise storage array, the TrueNAS M-Series. The TrueNAS M-Series represents the high-performance...
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...
Think you need more than a FreeNAS Mini for post-production video workflows? Guess again. Add a 10Gb network card to your Mini and a Thunderbolt-to-10 GbE converter like the ATTO ThunderLink NT 2102, and you now have a high speed, high capacity storage solution fast...
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. In addition to protecting data from catastrophic failure, TrueNAS® is also designed to protect the data on the array in case of a drive failure. It uses software RAID to provide redundancy for...
We’ve built some pretty impressive systems in our decades of existence. In this edition of #ServerEnvy, we’re going to push the limits of CPU performance. This is a 2U server outfitted with a custom-built water cooling system. Many of our clients have high performance...
These two data optimization technologies not only squeeze more capacity out of your storage system but can bring a performance boost as well. You have probably heard of “data compression” in various forms over the years but may not know how it plays an integral role...
A while ago, we featured Megaport, a 2U multinode server we built for a client with complex networking needs. In this edition of #ServerEnvy, we’d like to follow up that system with another dense network-focused server. We’ve dubbed this system the “Hellaport”. This...
In the latest edition of our #ServerEnvy series, we thought we’d share an order we just completed. Meet the 64-bit ARM-based ThunderX system from Cavium.
With over 8.5 million downloads and counting, FreeNAS is the world’s #1 storage software. This week, we’d like to devote some time to its enterprise counterpart and our flagship storage product—TrueNAS.
