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SCaLE17x Recap
The 17th annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) took place from March 7-10 at the Pasadena Convention Center. There were about 150 exhibitors along with nearly 130 sessions, tutorials, and events. Around 3,300 attendees from around the globe descended upon the exhibit hall and explored all the events and sessions SCaLE had to offer. The iXsystems Team staffed two booths at the conference, the FreeBSD Booth (#515) and the iXsystems Booth (#517).
The New iXsystems.com Experience
iXsystems has led the development of FreeNAS for many years now, and we want to take a moment to talk about some of our upcoming plans for the FreeNAS website and forums in 2019.
Asigra TrueNAS® Backup Appliance Named Backup/DR Hardware Product of the Year
Enterprise storage provider iXsystems® and backup and recovery partner Asigra® Inc. received the highest award, Gold, in TechTarget’s Storage Magazine for the jointly-developed Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance.
iXsystems Charges into 2019 With Sustained 50% Growth in TrueNAS and FreeNAS Revenues
iXsystems®, the leader in Enterprise Storage and Servers Driven by Open Source, starts 2019 strongly after three consecutive years with over 50% year-over-year revenue growth in its TrueNAS® product line. This achievement and momentum reflects the rapid adoption of the cutting-edge TrueNAS M-Series storage appliance.
TrueNAS M-Series Turns Tech Buzz into Music
The TrueNAS M50 integrates multiple buzz-worthy technologies to deliver large amounts of low-latency storage. The M-Series accelerates a broad range of workloads–safely and economically. Speaking of economics, according to the iXsystems website, TrueNAS storage can be expanded for less than $100/TB. That should be music to the ears of business people everywhere.
FreeNAS® 11.2 Brings New Web Interface, Virtualization, and Security Features To The World’s #1 Software-Defined Storage
FreeNAS 11.2 debuts a new Angular-based web interface, making it the first Open Source storage OS to incorporate Google’s very popular JavaScript framework. The FreeNAS 11.2 release also introduces new virtualization and container subsystems, plus support for Self-Encrypting Drives (SED) to comply with mission-critical security and privacy regulations.
Gartner Conference: Infrastructure (and FreeNAS) is Everywhere!
Gartner held their 35th annual IT Infrastructure, Operations, and Cloud Strategy conference in Las Vegas from Dec 3-6. iXsystems was invited by Gartner to participate, representing both FreeNAS and TrueNAS. The conference was a great opportunity to get the pulse of the enterprise market, listen to Gartner analysts speak on a wide range of topics, and have some fruitful conversations with IT Directors and other vendors.
MeetBSD 2018: The Ultimate Hallway Track
MeetBSD California 2018 took place October 19th and 20th and succeeded once again at bringing together many of the biggest names in the BSD community in an informal, low-stress environment. True to its UnConference roots, MeetBSD 2018 offered a mix of formal talks and audience-participation activities, including Lightning Talks, OpenZFS and Virtualization Panels, and Breakout Sessions. MeetBSD 2018 also stayed true to its Silicon Valley/Bay Area roots, attracting attendees from the region and around the world.
Silicon Valley Veteran Morgan Littlewood Joins iXsystems as Senior Vice President, Product Management and Business Development
Morgan Littlewood, long-time advocate of iXsystems and former executive of Cisco and Violin Memory aims to make iXsystems the global leader in Open Source IT infrastructure.
Letter to Customers Regarding Bloomberg Article on Alleged Hardware Tampering
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. Latest Update: Third-Party Testing Finds No Malicious Hardware on SuperMicro motherboards Dear iXsystems Customers, An October 4th Bloomberg article alleged the possibility of a security...
