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DCIG Research Awards iXsystems TrueNAS “Excellent” Rating (in 2015-2016 Hybrid Storage Array Buyer’s Guide)
iXsystems, an industry leader in storage and servers driven by Open Source, today announced its TrueNAS Z20 hybrid storage array was named “Excellent” by industry research firm DCIG in the 2015-2016 DCIG Small and Midsize Enterprise Hybrid Storage Buyer’s Guide.
C Developer in a FreeBSD World (Part 2)
This is historic content that may contain outdated information. For the newest information on FreeNAS and TrueNAS, please visit TrueNAS.com or read our latest Blogs. In the “The Journey of a C developer in a FreeBSD World”, I described the changes that occur when you...
AsiaBSDCon 2015 Recap
This year’s AsiaBSDcon started with the DevSummit on Thursday. We discussed making more utilities output XML/JSON with libxo, the work Warner was doing on making the kernel more modular with auto PNP loading of modules, and some security related bits with the work...
iXsystems Releases Major Software Update to TrueNAS Unified Storage Appliance
The TrueNAS 9.3 release features improved virtualization support with the addition of new VMware VAAI primitives. The newly added VAAI Block primitives include Write Same Zero to save resources on writes, XCOPY which reduces VM deployment time by having TrueNAS perform large data transfers, and Atomic Test and Set, which increases the number of VMs you can place on a datastore backed by TrueNAS. Also supported is the SCSI UNMAP command, which is used to recover capacity when a VM is moved or deleted.
Cost is Not the Only Reason to Select a Storage Vendor
When acquiring a storage appliance, you have many choices. It seems like everyone these days offers a "storage" system, including a software only, converged or stand-alone. You have many to chose from, including Dell, EMC, NetApp, hybrid and all-flash array startups,...
Ultracore
We at iXsystems are known for building custom-tailored storage and server solutions for our clients. We’ve built some pretty impressive systems, including Megacore and Megaport. One of our clients requested a single high performance, storage intensive compute node—and...
BSD -CURRENT is Usable Daily
Running the development branch of a *BSD daily might sound scary. Indeed, this is basically the experimentations’ land and this use case seems to apply only to BSD developers – the internal APIs might suddenly change because they need to, some bugs can be fixed, some...
iX at SCALE 15x
iX™ Team members Matt Olander, Denise Ebery, James Nixon, and Dru Lavigne recently attended So Cal Linux Expo (SCALE) on behalf of the FreeBSD Project. This year’s SCALE conference had record-breaking numbers with over 3000 open source aficionados in attendance. We...
In 5 Years, PC-BSD will Surpass Linux says KDE Developer
Slashdot posted an interesting story earlier this week. Luke Wolf, a key KDE developer, made the bold prediction that FreeBSD will surpass Linux in the next five years. On his blog, Wolf points out that Linux distros haven’t changed much over the past ten years and...
Why Our Production Practices Make Us Great
I face a unique challenge running the biggest department at iXsystems. With employees fluctuating depending on the time of the year, my biggest challenge as Production Manager is making sure my employees have the policies, procedures, tools, and leadership to be...
