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SuperComputing 2014 Recap
Supercomputing was a blast! I got in late on Monday, just in time for the official opening of the show. They made a real party out of it - there were minibars spread all around the show floor, and a marching band going up and down the aisles. At the iXsystems booth,...
LISA 2014 Recap
Dru, Marty, and David attended LISA 2014 in Seattle, WA last week. Although Dru is a veteran of the conference, it was the first time at the show for both Marty and David. “Having never attended a LISA conference, I was uncertain of what to expect. Of course, there...
MeetBSD California 2014 Recap
This year’s MeetBSD California Conference was a tremendous success. Nearly 200 people attended the conference, which was held at Western Digital’s San Jose office, over the course of both days. The conference was held in the “unConference” format, and featured...
Cloud Computing Expo 2014 Recap
Last week, we had a booth at Cloud Computing Expo 2014. Since the conference was right in our backyard, we sent a pretty sizable group to represent Team iX. The conference marked the debut of our newest booth backdrop—a design showing the relationship between...
iXsystems Unleashes FreeNAS 9.3-BETA Unto the World
iXsystems today announced the BETA release of FreeNAS version 9.3. This FreeNAS update is a significant evolutionary step from previous FreeNAS releases, featuring a simplified and reorganized Web User Interface, support for Windows 2012 clustering, better integration with VMware, a new and more secure update system with roll-back functionality, and hundreds of other technology enhancements.
All Things Open 2014 Recap
All Things Open was held in Raleigh on October 22 and 23. This was the largest ATO to date, with over 1000 attendees. There was also a good mix of female attendees, due in part to the Women in Open Source panel on the second day and the number of female speakers....
Ohio Linuxfest 2014 Recap
Aside from early in the morning and late in the afternoon, there were always lots of people in the Expo hall visiting the FreeBSD booth. I noticed we had a very low percentage of "drive-by" visitors—most people stayed and talked about some aspect of FreeBSD. I would...
Spindles Still Matter
Over the past number of years, hard drive capacity has skyrocketed. I remember not too long ago when a 512GB drive was huge. However, now it’s commonplace to see 2, 4, or even 6TB sized HDDs in everything from desktops to storage server systems. Thanks to consumers,...
iXsystems Products Not Vulnerable to Shellshock-related Exploits
Over the past few weeks, the Open Source Software community has been dealing with the fallout from the discovery of a significant vulnerability in the GNU Bash shell used by default in many Linux-based operating systems. iXsystems products are based on FreeBSD, not...
EuroBSDCon 2014 Recap
EuroBSDCon was a blast this year. The week started off with attending the FreeBSD developers summit, where we began by reviewing the current worklist for 11.0. A large number of the items were already finished or committed to HEAD, and 11.0 looks to be shaping up as a...
