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TrueNAS Monitoring: Cacti, Nagios, Zabbix, and Zenoss
TrueNAS has a goal of simplifying storage maintenance and complex monitoring tasks. Every component of a TrueNAS array can be monitored from a Web User Interface. Real-time statistics are displayed that cover the last hour and you can view and monitor usage trends...
iXsystems Wins Press and Industry Analyst Accolades in Best in Biz Awards 2015
iXsystems has been named a Silver winner in the Product Line of the Year category for its Enterprise Storage Product Line and a Silver winner in the Most Customer Friendly Company of the Year – Medium (100-999 employees) category in Best in Biz Awards. Best in Biz is the only independent business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts.
Fossetcon 2015
The second annual Fossetcon was held in sunny Orlando from November 19-21. This year, the venue was near Disney Springs and attendees were encouraged to bring their families and to enjoy the local area during lunch and after conference hours. This work by Bryan Smith...
iXsystems TrueNAS Arrays Improve Scalability to Almost 5PB per Rack
iXsystems, the industry leader in storage and servers driven by Open Source, officially announced the TrueNAS E60 expansion shelf. Adding a TrueNAS E60 to a TrueNAS Z35 enables scaling to 3.84PB, a 150% improvement in addressable capacity, and does so in only 35U of rack space, less than half the rack space of other enterprise storage vendors. A density of over 100TB per rack unit allows for a deployment of almost 5PB in a 48U rack.
LISA 2015 Recap
Last week, the annual LISA conference was held in Washington DC. We had a presence at two booths. Dru Lavigne helped staff the FreeBSD Foundation booth. Meanwhile, Matt Finney, Marty Godsey, and I staffed the iXsystems booth. I thought the conference was great. Our...
SeaGL 2015 Recap
Michael Dexter attended SeaGL 2015 in Seattle and wrote about his experiences at this grassroots regional event. SeaGL provided a great opportunity to talk about all things BSD with students, professors and users from around the Pacific Northwest and included a few surprises!
TrueNAS Z50 “TrueFlash” Delivers a Feature Rich, Enterprise-Class, All-Flash Storage Array for Every Customer
iXsystems, an industry leader in storage and servers driven by Open Source, today announced that its TrueNAS arrays continue to receive accolades from industry research firm DCIG. The TrueNAS Z50 “TrueFlash” array ranked “Excellent” in the DCIG 2015-2016 All-Flash Array Buyer’s Guide. This news comes just months after DCIG awarded the TrueNAS Z20 with an “Excellent” rating in their 2015-2016 Small/Midsize Enterprise (SME) Hybrid Storage Buyer’s Guide. DCIG also awarded the TrueNAS Z30 an “Excellent” in their 2015-2016 Midsize Enterprise Hybrid Storage Buyer’s Guide.
EuroBSDcon 2015 Recap
This year's EuroBSDcon took place in Stockholm, Sweden and was an amazing mix of sessions, reunions and announcements. I had missed the last two EuroBSDcons and was delighted to see the people I love in a city I love. Many of us hit the ground running by working on...
OLF 2015 Recap
I just got back from Ohio Linuxfest 2015 and am pleased to report that it was a great conference for FreeBSD outreach! While the attendance was a bit lower than in previous years, we still had a lot of great conversations with Linux users who were interested in trying...
vBSDcon 2015 Recap
Last weekend, the 2nd vBSDCon was hosted in Reston, Virginia by Verisign and several iX employees were in attendance. A big thanks to Dru Lavigne, Kris Moore, and Michael Dexter for sharing their experiences at the show with us. Here’s what Dru had to say about the...
