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SNIA SDC 2016 Recap: Brad Meyer
The SNIA Storage Developers Conference was held in Santa Clara on September 19-22. Specifically designed for developers, I went to this conference to interact with my storage development peers and to hear what SNIA and other companies planned to announce. Also at the...
Data Compression and Deduplication Demystified
These two data optimization technologies not only squeeze more capacity out of your storage system but can bring a performance boost as well. You have probably heard of “data compression” in various forms over the years but may not know how it plays an integral role...
VMworld 2016 Happened in Vegas, but VMware Skills Will Not Stay in Vegas
What a show! VMworld 2016 was in Las Vegas this year, which gave VMware the room to hold one of the largest trade shows I have ever attended. In every corner of the exhibit hall were many recognizable names of companies in the tech industry. Our own iXsystems devils...
iXsystems to Host MeetBSD California 2016 at UC Berkeley
iXsystems announced today that the fifth MeetBSD California conference will take place at UC Berkeley’s Clark Kerr campus on November 11-12. As in past years, this year’s MeetBSD California will once again follow a mixed “unConference” format and will feature breakout sessions, discussion groups, and talks from prominent figures in the BSD community.
iXsystems Wins Gold for Product Line of the Year in Best in Biz Awards International 2016
iXsystems, the industry leader in enterprise storage and servers driven by Open Source, received the highest honor of “Gold” for Product Line of the Year for its Data Storage products in the 2016 International Best in Biz Awards. Best in Biz Awards International is an independent global business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts. This award follows iXsystems’ awarding of two Silver Best in Biz North America awards in December of 2015 and reaffirms the importance of Open Source technologies that iXsystems provides to the global marketplace.
Tomorrow’s Storage and Compute Here Today. See iXsystems at VMworld! (Booth 645)
VMworld is just around the corner and iXsystems is looking forward to seeing you. From August 28 to September 1, over 25,000 people will descend on the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Convention Center in Las Vegas to hear presentations, attend training sessions, and view exhibits from us as well as VMware and more than 250 partners.
iXsystems Expands Capacity of Its TrueFlash All-Flash Array by 10x
iXsystems, the industry leader in storage and servers powered by Open Source, today unveiled the TrueNAS E16F All-Flash expansion shelf for the TrueNAS Z50 TrueFlash all-flash storage array. The TrueNAS Z50 is designed and developed to make optimal use of the intelligent compression and optional deduplication features provided in TrueNAS. The maximum SSD capacity was doubled from 1.92GB to 3.84GB and up to four TrueNAS E16F expansion shelves can be added to a TrueNAS Z50 TrueFlash. These improvements increase the maximum capacity of the Z50 TrueFlash ten-fold to 300TB.
#ServerEnvy: Hellaport
A while ago, we featured Megaport, a 2U multinode server we built for a client with complex networking needs. In this edition of #ServerEnvy, we’d like to follow up that system with another dense network-focused server. We’ve dubbed this system the “Hellaport”. This...
TXLF 2016 Recap
The annual Texas LinuxFest was held at the Austin Convention Center on July 8 and 9. Dru Lavigne and Kris Moore of iXsystems were in attendance and helped staff the FreeBSD booth in the expo area. This year, there were over 450 attendees and 4 presentation tracks over...
iXsystems’ TrueNAS Firmware Update Delivers Compelling Performance, Replication, and Graphing Improvements
Enterprise storage vendor iXsystems today announced the release of Version 9.10 of its TrueNAS enterprise storage array firmware. TrueNAS 9.10 represents the third generation of core software for the award-winning line of enterprise storage arrays and is available to all new and existing TrueNAS users. At the center of TrueNAS 9.10 is an update to the FreeBSD 10.3 operating system which brings significant performance improvements and provides the foundation for the next generation of network fabrics including 100GbE Ethernet.
