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How To: Contributing Language Translations to FreeNAS
FreeNAS is used in 99% of the countries in the world, and after almost nine years in service and countless community contributions, the legacy FreeNAS GUI was translated into over 50 languages! If you are a multilingual FreeNAS fan, a great way to get involved and help contribute is to assist in the translation from the original English into another language.

SNIA SDC 2019: SMB, NVMe, Persistent Memory, Performance, and More!
The iXsystems Engineering Team arrived at the Storage Networking Industry Association’s Storage Developer Conference in Santa Clara, California at the end of September, FreeNAS Mini in hand. We were ready to attend, present, and participate in one of the most intense storage-related technical conferences of the year!

JFK Presidential Library Chooses iXsystems TrueNAS to Preserve Precious Digital Archives
iXsystems is honored to have the TrueNAS M-Series unified storage selected to store, serve, and protect the entire digital archive for the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. This is in support of the collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum (JFK Library).

vBSDcon 2019
The fourth biennial vBSDCon was held in Reston, VA on September 5th through 7th and attracted attendees and presenters from not only the Washington, DC area, but also Canada, Germany, Kenya, and beyond. While MeetBSD caters to Silicon Valley BSD enthusiasts on even years, vBSDcon caters to East Coast and DC area enthusiasts on odd years.

iconik Hybrid Cloud Media Management Now Native on FreeNAS
iXsystems and iconik are pleased to announce that FreeNAS can now natively act as a storage repository on the iconik smart media management platform. The new iconik storage gateway plugin is now available in the Available Plugins section within the FreeNAS web interface. Once installed, it allows for easy, always available access to shared files in FreeNAS from any location.

TrueCommand and TrueNAS Make Their Mark at VMworld 2019!
iXsystems had a major presence at VMWorld 2019 with many members of our engineering, marketing, and sales teams attending to meet up with our clients, partners and new prospects. Back in San Francisco this year, VMworld featured the latest hybrid and multi-cloud advancements from VMware and its partners. Data management continues to be a primary topic of conversation and everyone wanted higher performance and cost savings.

Reduce Virtualization Costs with TrueNAS
TrueNAS and FreeNAS can both support virtualization workloads. FreeNAS is great for development, labs, and other non-critical use-cases. TrueNAS is a platform designed for critical applications where enterprise support and HA are generally needed for production. TrueNAS also includes vSphere certification and vCenter plugins to reduce operating costs and complexity. TrueCommand provides the “single pane of glass” for simplifying the management of many NAS systems and replication targets.

Make your mark with TrueNAS at VMworld!
VMworld is returning to San Francisco and the iXsystems team will showcase our wide range of server and storage solutions for VMware, all powered by the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors and ZFS. From strategic upgrades to new deployments, iXsystems has a VMware-ready solution for every size workload, both current and future. iXsystems TrueNAS storage solutions with ZFS grow with you, from a few hybrid or all-flash terabytes, to hybrid solutions of over ten petabytes. Stop by booth #966 for a chance to win a FreeNAS Mini and learn which VMware-ready iXsystems solutions can help you Make Your Mark.

New FreeNAS Mini Entry-Level & High-End Models Unveiled by iXsystems
iXsystems has expanded the FreeNAS Mini series of network storage systems with the addition of two new models and tighter integration with TrueNAS and cloud services. The FreeNAS Mini series can now also be managed by TrueCommand, a unified management system, to monitor and control all TrueNAS and FreeNAS systems from a “single pane of glass”.
Asigra Teams with iXsystems to Unveil Cloud Backup V14 for FreeNAS
TORONTO – June 11, 2019 – Asigra Inc., a leading cloud backup, recovery and restore software provider since 1986, today announced the Asigra Cloud Backup Plug-in for FreeNAS. The software-based solution combines iXsystems’ FreeNAS storage operating system and the new...