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The GDPR Countdown
The European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect in less than three months, and FreeNAS and TrueNAS storage managers at companies of all sizes need to be thinking about compliance.

SNIA Persistent Memory Summit 2018 Report
Nick Principe, Technical Marketing Engineer at iXsystems attended the 2018 SNIA Persistent Memory Summit and recaps his experience at the one-day event.

#ServerEnvy: Drives for Days
The 4U server we have here is the iX-4260 from our Jupiter series. With a 60-bay drive capacity, this system will provide you with more storage than you can imagine.

Ohio LinuxFest 2017 Recap
iXsystems was pleased to once again participate in the 15th annual Ohio LinuxFest, sending Ken Moore, Dru Lavigne, and J.T. Pennington to staff the joint FreeBSD/FreeNAS booth in the expo area.

EuroBSDCon 2017 Reflection
Alexander Motin of iXsystems gives a recap of the event. We had the opportunity to listen and learn from some of the most talented FreeBSD developers and then interact with them on a personal level. We offer our gratitude to the EuroBSDCon staff for creating another successful event.

SNIA SDC 2017: 20 Years and Still Going Strong
The Storage Networking Industry Association’s Software Developer Summit (SNIA SDC) 2017 took place just after vBSDcon 2017 from September 11th through 14th in Santa Clara, California. Developers and decision makers from the largest storage vendors in the industry attended this event and I found it invaluable to my role as iXsystems Senior Analyst.

vBSDcon 2017: BSD at Work
iXsystems’ Senior Analyst Michael Dexter shares his experiences at vBSDcon hosted by Verisign which took place in the Washington, DC area.

vBSDCon 2017 Conference Reflection
The third biennial vBSDCon was held in Reston, VA on September 7-9. vBSDCon is a sister conference to MeetBSD, running on alternate years on the East Coast, while MeetBSD runs the other years on the West Coast.

VMworld 2017 Wrap Up Post
Las Vegas was hot, and it wasn’t just the desert. VMworld was smoking! Last week, 25,000 IT professionals descended upon Las Vegas, a city known for its neon light architecture, and discussed a different type of architecture at VMworld — one that is virtualized. The iXsystems devils were busy at Booth #1224 sharing our expertise on how to protect VMs and ensure fast and reliable access to data.

iXsystems Unleashes Servers Built On New Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors
iXsystems, the enterprise storage and server vendor renowned for its open source software contributions, today released a comprehensive line of new servers fully optimized for the new Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors. The iXsystems servers include multiple features that support the Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processors for exceptional performance, security, and efficiency, helping accelerate ROI.