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OSCON 2014 Recap
My experience at OSCon 2014 in Portland, Oregon was nothing short of interesting. It was my first tradeshow experience, but it went surprisingly well on the first day. Upon our arrival, we had a short opening reception that lasted about an hour. Many people actually...
iXsystems Unveils All-New TrueNAS Unified Storage Appliance Line
Updated storage appliances combine new management features with purpose-built, modular hardware and enhanced high availability functionality iXsystems today announces general availability of three all-new models of the TrueNAS Unified Storage Appliance. The new models...
SELF 2014 Recap
[fusion_text]This past weekend, Ken and Dru went to Charlotte, NC for this year’s Southeast Linuxfest. An estimated 500 people were in attendance throughout the conference, which took place from Friday morning until Sunday afternoon. Ken reported that the booth was...
TXLF 2014 Recap
This past weekend, Dru Lavigne and Josh Smith went to Austin, TX for this year’s annual Texas Linux Fest. Afterwards, they generously took the time to give us a recap of the event. TXLF went very well for the FreeBSD booth! Our table was one of the most popular...
iXsystems Sponsors Nzega Digital Library Initiative
FreeNAS Mini Storage Appliance to form core of Digital Book Archive iXsystems, an industry leader in Open Source enterprise server and storage solutions, recently agreed to donate two FreeNAS Mini network storage appliances to the Nzega Digital Library Initiative...
BSDCan 2014 – Craig’s Recap
Craig Rodrigues, iXsystems’ Software Engineer, had a very productive time at BSDCan. In addition to several talks, Craig also worked with other attendees on continuous integration and testing in FreeBSD. On May 15, Craig led the working group “Continuous Testing with...

BSDCan 2014 – John’s Recap
This year I arrived at BSDCan a day late due to issues in Chicago. However, upon arrival I hit the Royal Oak and chatted up the OpenBSD guys that are always there. They showed me how well ‘suspend’ and ‘resume’ worked on their laptops. © Ollivier Robert I was able to...

BSDCan 2014 – Dru’s Recap
As always, BSDCan is a jam-packed week full of opportunities to network and work with other FreeBSD committers and users in person. © Ollivier Robert For some of us, the week began on Monday when most of the FreeBSD Foundation board of directors met for two days to...

TeraFiler Preview
In anticipation of our anti-vibration rack test, we thought we’d give you a sneak peek of the system we’ll be using to measure the results. Say hello to the TeraFiler. The system features a dual node head with 16 drives in a 3U chassis and 8 external SAS controller...
iXsystems, Inc.’s TrueNAS Achieves VMware Ready™ Status
NOTE: This is historical content that may contain outdated information. TrueNAS 9.2.1 has achieved VMware’s highest level of endorsement May 14, 2014, San Jose, CA — iXsystems, Inc., an industry leader in Open-Source-friendly enterprise servers and storage solutions ,...