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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...
iXsystems Introduces TrueNAS Z50 TrueFlash with HGST Solid State Drives at VMWorld
TrueNAS Model Pairs the Performance of HGST Solid State Drives with the Power of ZFS and Takes Aim at Virtualization Market iXsystems unveils its TrueNAS Z50, also known as TrueFlash, to the public for the first time at VMworld 2014. TrueFlash is a new TrueNAS model...
Diabetes Youth Families
We’d like to take a moment to highlight the great work the folks over at Diabetes Youth Families do. DYF strives to improve the quality of life for children, teens, and families affected by diabetes by providing education and recreation programs within a supportive...
iXsystems to Host MeetBSD California 2014 at Western Digital in San Jose
Biennial BSD Tradition Returns this Fall for its Fourth Installment iXsystems today announced that the fourth biennial MeetBSD California conference will take place at Western Digital in San Jose on November 1st and 2nd. The two-day event will use a mixed unConference...
Database Query Optimization for Huge Databases
Occasionally, we have the opportunity to give the database engine a helping hand, and improve the performance of a long-running SQL query. We do this, by not performing the whole query in SQL. We know better than to perform ORDER BY in SQL (see ‘Embedded SQL.doc’);...
