On April 27, 2014, Ben Milman gave a talk to a packed room during the 15th annual LinuxFest Northwest. The presentation taught newcomers to open source operating systems how to set up a Network Attached Storage device for their home or office using the FreeNAS...
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LFNW 2014 Recap
Bellingham, we meet again! Last weekend, the iXsystems team attended the 15th annual Linuxfest Northwest conference where we staffed a booth on behalf of the FreeBSD Foundation. A record-breaking 1600 attendees showed up this year. The conference itself was very...

Great Wide Open 2014 Recap
The inaugural Great Wide Open conference was held in downtown Atlanta. This well organized conference had over 600 attendees and 6 presentation tracks over 2 days. Most of the attendees were local to Atlanta which speaks to the breadth of the IT talent in the Atlanta...
AsiaBSDCON 2014 Recap
This year’s AsiaBSDCon was a historic event. Hiroki Sato, organizer of the conference, announced that there were 139 people, including 30 speakers in attendance, and the keynotes were standing room only. This was the largest AsiaBSDCon conference since he started...

Introduction to FreeNAS Development by John Hixson
This is the second in our series of presentations from SCALE 12x. In addition to Dru's talk (ZFS 101), John Hixson, Senior Software Developer at iXsystems, also gave his talk "Introduction to FreeNAS Development". FreeNAS has been around for several years now but...

ZFS 101 (aka ZFS is Cool and Why You Should Be Using It) by Dru Lavigne
SCALE is an annual conference held at the Hilton LAX in Los Angeles. Every year, thousands of aficionados congregate at the conference to celebrate all things Open Source. At SCALE this year, Dru gave a talk called "ZFS 101 (aka ZFS is Cool and Why You Should Be Using...
SCALE 12x Recap
SCALE was an awesome conference with 11 speaker tracks, over 2,200 attendees, and many open source projects represented. The entire iX team gave it rave reviews across the board. On Saturday, the expo floor was non-stop from 10-6 with everyone at the booth kept busy...
FOSDEM 2014 Recap
FOSDEM was held on February 1st and 2nd in Brussels, Belgium. It was a huge conference with thousands of people. Statistics aren't kept as the conference is completely free and open, but estimates range from 6k people to 10k people. Nearly everyone there had a...
NYCBSDCon 2014 Recap
This past weekend, the NYCBUG held a one day conference in downtown Manhattan. This was the fifth NYCBSDCon conference organized by the user group in the past 10 years. The venue was at the same location where NYCBUG holds their monthly meetings. The layout was ideal...
Tracking FreeBSD in FreeNAS by Using Git for Newbies
This is the second in our series of presentation recaps. In addition to Craig's presentation (which can be found here) at the FreeBSD Vendor Summit held on November 7, 2013, iXsystems was also represented by Alfred Perlstein. Alfred Perlstein, iXsystems Vice President...