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Why ZIL Size Matters (or Doesn’t)
Years of photos, audio, and video—we make TrueNAS because data is critical. Storage downtime can equal an instant loss of revenue. TrueNAS eliminates the RAID hardware used in traditional storage and replaces it with ZFS which combines the roles of RAID controller,...
CEO Bulletin: Why We’re Focusing on Storage in 2015
What a year it’s been—2014 saw the release of FreeNAS 9.3 with new capabilities, the FreeNAS Mini platform that is now being sold on Amazon and doing extraordinarily well, and finally, the launch of our new TrueNAS platform during the Summer. Last year we saw the...
The Journey of a C Developer in FreeBSD’s World (Part 1)
Moving from Linux to FreeBSD involves quite a number of changes; some gains and some losses. As a developer, for most of the programming languages, especially the high level ones, there are no meaningful disturbing changes. But for languages like C (and its sibling...
Expert Says, January 2015: FreeNAS 9.3 Features – Support for VMware VAAI
With all the excitement over the big changes introduced in FreeNAS 9.3 (including the new update manager and the decision to completely move to ZFS), it’s easy to overlook some of the other features that were added during the release. One of those features we’d like...
The History of iXsystems
How did iXsystems get its start? I get asked this question a lot. Sure, you could look it up on Wikipedia or Google, but why get the secondhand version when you could get it straight from the source? That’s me, by the way. I was working at BSDi in 2001 when they sold...
A Little Flash Goes A Long Way
When customers discuss enterprise storage they often talk about multi-tiering. However, many experts recommend that they consider a different concept: combining flash with hard disk. This is not a new concept – IBM did it more than 30 years ago! Back then, flash was...
FreeNAS 9.3 Features – Support for VMware VAAI
With all the excitement over the big changes introduced in FreeNAS 9.3 (including the new update manager and the decision to completely move to ZFS), it’s easy to overlook some of the other features that were added during the release. One of those features we’d like...
The Case for TrueNAS
As part of my role at iXsystems, I talk to many customers, analysts and engineering types. What I hear most often is “who is iXsystems” and “what is TrueNAS”? Let me give you a quick overview of iXsystems history and why many people are using TrueNAS instead of legacy...
5 Reasons Why a Business Should Not Use Legacy Storage
The world has changed and a business must face the eruption of data from “The Internet of Things”, BYOD, social media, and Big Data. Many businesses must be agile and flexible yet do more with less. The storage market is large yet dominated by a handful of legacy...
iXsystems Announces Availability of FreeNAS 9.3 for General Consumption
iXsystems announced today the general availability of FreeNAS version 9.3. Highlights of the release include a simplified and revamped Web UI, automated updates, a new set-up wizard, and ZFS boot environments. FreeNAS 9.3 underwent extensive testing by thousands of BETA testers from the FreeNAS Community.
