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AsiaBSDCon 2016 Recap
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. The 10th annual AsiaBSDCon was held in Tokyo, Japan from March 10-13. This is the primary BSD conference held in Asia and several members of the iXsystems team were in attendance. The conference...
iXsystems’ TrueNAS Tops the Latest DCIG Buyer’s Guide
iXsystems, the industry pioneer in enterprise storage and servers driven by Open Source, today announced that the TrueNAS Z35 received the top ranking from DCIG in their 2016-2017 iSCSI SAN Utility Storage Array Buyer’s Guide. Representing iXsystems’ fourth DCIG Buyer’s Guide win, the iSCSI SAN Utility Storage Array Buyer’s Guide evaluated more than 100 different criteria across 67 different storage arrays from 14 different storage vendors, including Dell, HP, EMC, and NetApp.
A Bigger FreeNAS Mini?
The FreeNAS Mini has been a popular product for home and small office use since it launched in 2013. Since then, the consumption and storage of user data has grown exponentially. Think about it, 4K TVs were just launching at that point. Now 4K is in drones, point and...
#ServerEnvy: Xeon Developer Workstation
Every so often, we get asked whether we sell desktops. Yes. Yes, we do. We don’t get many requests for them but just like our servers, we can custom build a desktop suitable for each client’s use case and they go through the same testing and burn-in process as our...
FreeBSD Storage Summit 2016
iXsystems was out in full force at the first FreeBSD Storage Summit which took place February 22nd in Santa Clara, California during the USENIX FAST '16 conference. This was the first FreeBSD DevSummit to be dedicated exclusively to storage-related technologies and...
iXsystems Partners with Veeam
Backup is like insurance -- you only need it when something goes wrong. The value of backups is to shorten restore times and get a business back to work quicker. Our customers agree, as customer surveys show that more than half of them use TrueNAS to store their...
CEO Bulletin: New Beginnings and a Year of Accomplishments
A year has gone by already and guess what—we've grown yet again! We've had the best four quarters of our corporate life and finished off the 2015 calendar year surpassing even our amazing 2014 high water mark. It was fast-paced, exciting, challenging, and full of...
SmartOS and iXsystems: Hyper-convergence Today
If we had our way, we would ship every system with FreeBSD and while we stress test every system with FreeBSD, the truth is that we ship tens of thousands of systems each year that run other Open Source operating systems including Illumos, GNU/Linux and OpenBSD. We’re even no stranger to shipping systems configured for Windows Server. We talked to Dan at iXsystems Channel Partner ArcticSight about his use of SmartOS on iXsystems servers.
SCaLE 14x Recap
The 14th annual SCALE was held this past weekend at the Pasadena Convention Center. At over 3,600 registered attendees, two days of tutorials, two days of presentations, over 17 tracks, and a busy exposition, this year was bigger and better than ever. This year at...
The 10 Most Read Articles of 2015
In 2015, our goal was to promote ZFS and to change your view of file systems. We‘ve accomplished that goal. Here is a list of the top 10 most viewed articles in 2015 based on our analytics. This list represents a wide range of subjects that are contained in the many...
