Explore emerging technologies, industry trends, and innovative solutions across storage, servers, networking, and open-source software with iXsystems Tech Spotlight articles.
At iXsystems when we say custom, we do mean custom. No two clients have exactly the same requirements, so why would you expect a cookie-cutter solution to meet all of your needs? In this edition of #ServerEnvy, we’re taking a look at a custom-built 4U iX4424 Jupiter...
Last week, we wrote an article about the launch of the new Central Cambria School District website. I am pleased to announce that the new website is now award winning! This whole journey started last year after the 2015 Pennsylvania State Computer Fair. We entered a...
The FreeNAS Mini has been a popular product for home and small office use since it launched in 2013. Since then, the consumption and storage of user data has grown exponentially. Think about it, 4K TVs were just launching at that point. Now 4K is in drones, point and...
Every so often, we get asked whether we sell desktops. Yes. Yes, we do. We don’t get many requests for them but just like our servers, we can custom build a desktop suitable for each client’s use case and they go through the same testing and burn-in process as our...
TrueNAS has a goal of simplifying storage maintenance and complex monitoring tasks. Every component of a TrueNAS array can be monitored from a Web User Interface. Real-time statistics are displayed that cover the last hour and you can view and monitor usage trends...
We at iXsystems are known for building custom-tailored storage and server solutions for our clients. We’ve built some pretty impressive systems, including Megacore and Megaport. One of our clients requested a single high performance, storage intensive compute node—and...
Years of photos, audio, and video—we make TrueNAS because data is critical. Storage downtime can equal an instant loss of revenue. TrueNAS eliminates the RAID hardware used in traditional storage and replaces it with ZFS which combines the roles of RAID controller,...
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...
When customers discuss enterprise storage they often talk about multi-tiering. However, many experts recommend that they consider a different concept: combining flash with hard disk. This is not a new concept – IBM did it more than 30 years ago! Back then, flash was...
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...
