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Nextcloud and TrueNAS Collaborate to Help You Build Your Private Cloud
Today we are announcing a partnership with Nextcloud to provide an officially supported integration with TrueNAS. Nextcloud and TrueNAS are the #1 Open Source platforms for team collaboration and software-defined storage, respectively. The Nextcloud software suite...
Nextcloud and TrueNAS deliver Productivity and Privacy
Powerful content collaboration platform enriches open source enterprise storage platform Stuttgart, October 12, 2021 - Nextcloud GmbH, the company behind the worlds' most deployed on-premises content collaboration platform, and iXsystems inc., developers of the...
TrueNAS 12.0-U6 is Released & Continues the Forward Momentum in Quality
TrueNAS 12.0-U6 was released yesterday and is now the recommended update for even the most conservative users of both TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise. It will now ship by default on all new TrueNAS systems. TrueNAS 12.0-U5 and U5.1 were the most popular releases...
Futurex Enables Centralized Key Management for TrueNAS via KMIP
Futurex’s on-premises and cloud KMIP solutions simplify encryption key management for greater security and control for TrueNAS Unified Storage SAN JOSE, Calif. and BULVERDE, Texas, October 5, 2021 — iXsystems, the leader in Open Storage with TrueNAS, and Futurex, a...
TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!)
FreeNAS reigned as the world’s most popular Open Source Software-Defined Storage (SDS) from 2009 to 2020. During Q3 2020, TrueNAS 12.0 was introduced, which started the transition of FreeNAS merging into TrueNAS. Within a year, TrueNAS is now the new #1 Open Source...
TrueNAS Increases the Flexibility of its VMware Storage Solution
TrueNAS has integrated well with VMware and vSphere for many years by maintaining VMware-ready certification status and including support for vStorage API for Array Integration (VAAI), vSphere Storage DRS, a vCenter plugin, and other integrations. In 2021, the TrueNAS...
TrueNAS SCALE 21.08 Delivers Major SMB Enhancements
TrueNAS SCALE 21.08 BETA has been released and includes clustered SMB (aka Windows storage) and a much improved Windows-style ACL (Access Control List) editor. These build on the major iXsystems innovation of Windows-style (aka NFSv4) ACLs on Linux ZFS. With these...
TrueNAS 12.0-U5 Released, FreeNAS Transitions to “Legacy” Status
The migration of FreeNAS to TrueNAS started in October 2020. The transition has been deliberately slow and methodical, while the efficiency gains have been every bit the windfall we anticipated. Over this period, many exabytes of data were carefully managed while the...
TrueNAS M-Series Update Enables Unprecedented SCALE-ability
Accurately predicting storage performance and capacity needs for the next twelve months is a struggle for most customers, let alone predicting it over the entire 5+ year lifetime of a storage system. To make matters worse, even if it were possible to predict that far...
Combating Ransomware with TrueNAS
Ransomware is making headlines globally but is not receiving a coordinated response from world leaders or the IT industry. Malicious groups ranging from online street thugs to full-blown state-sponsored military operations are infecting computers and holding them for...
