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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...
FreeBSD Technologies and Protocols Involved in Setting up an Office Server
The goal of this article is to introduce you to the products, technologies and protocols which will be used in setting up an office server. The article will describe them in detail in order to clarify their interaction with the server and with the Internet at large....
Fossetcon 2014 Recap
Fossetcon was held on September 11-13 in Orlando, FL. iXsystems sponsored a FreeBSD booth in the expo area of this event. It was conveniently located next to the FreeBSD Brasil booth as three members of one of the largest FreeBSD user groups in the world came from...
iXsystems Launches New Servers Based on Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Product Family
New processor generation from Intel powers versatile, efficient datacenters. iXsystems is pleased to announce the availability of a new line of servers based on the Intel® Xeon® Processor E5 v3 Product Family, the latest processor line from Intel Corporation. Whether...
VMworld 2014 Recap
Last week, several members of the iX team went up to San Francisco to participate in VMworld. This was the biggest show we’ve done in a while, with an estimated 20,000 people in attendance. On the show floor, we shared booth space with HGST and debuted our newest...
Deploying an Office Server In FreeBSD, With File Sharing and E-mail
FreeBSD is a modern and capable operating system (OS) which can be both robust and easily manageable if used in an office or a workgroup server environment. It supports the whole range of cutting edge Open-Source technologies, which makes using it a completely...
