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iXsystems Donates 1U Server to Pennsylvania High School for Website Redesign Project
Part 1: Background Information (PA Computer Fair, Bio, Our Idea, School Board, etc.) Creating our School’s Website (on Linux) Bonjour le monde! My name is Andrew Regan, and I am a senior at Central Cambria High School in Ebensburg, Pennsylvania. I have been a fan...
VMworld 2015 Recap
VMware announced that over 22,000 attended from all across the globe. In every corner of the exhibit hall were many recognizable names of companies in the tech industry. The conference was lively all week long – with event exhibitors, partners, and attendees expressing enthusiasm at every turn.
TXLF 2015 Recap
Texas Linux Fest took place last weekend in the Austin region. Josh Smith of the PC-BSD QA Team and Kris Moore, Director of PC-BSD Development, were on hand to staff the FreeBSD booth and talk about PC-BSD and FreeNAS with conference attendees. Below are Josh’s...
PC-BSD Team Announces Availability of PC-BSD Version 10.2
The PC-BSD Team recently announced the release of PC-BSD Version 10.2. The release incorporates the FreeBSD 10.2 base system as the underlying OS.
Are you ready for economical enterprise VM storage? See TrueNAS at VMworld! (Booth 316)
VMworld is just around the corner, and we’re looking forward to seeing you. From August 30 to September 4, over 20,000 people will descend on San Francisco to hear presentations, attend training and see exhibits. Our own iXsystems devils will be exhibiting a TrueNAS...
OSCON 2015
OSCON, the O'Reilly Open Source Conference wrapped up last week here in Portland, Oregon and with over 4,700 attendees, was the largest OSCON to date. I stationed myself at the FreeBSD Foundation booth to help answer the various BSD questions that came up and enjoyed...
Best Practices in UNIX Access Control with SUDO
by Leonardo Neves Bernardo This article will discuss about security related issues at sudo environments. Will be evaluated advantages and disadvantages of to centralize sudo with LDAP back-end. Another issue summarized in this article is about taking care with content...
New iXsystems Logo
iXsystems recently underwent a logo overhaul. After a solid fifteen year run, the oval blue surfboard with the beastie head above the “i” is being retired and has been replaced by a modernized version of the surfboard tilted on its side behind the iX™ with a sleek,...
EMC Opens up ViPR, but is it Really Open?
EMC is known in the industry as one of the longstanding archetypes of commercial software. They are also known for restricting access to knowledge and information around their storage products. They certainly aren’t what’s considered “open” by anyone’s definition....
BSDCan 2015 Recap
Last week the most well-attended BSDCan conference in history took place in Ottawa, Canada, with nearly 300 BSD programmers and hackers in attendance. Several iXsystems staff were present at the conference and shared their thoughts with us on how the conference went....
