As part of my role at iXsystems, I talk to many customers, analysts and engineering types. What I hear most often is “who is iXsystems” and “what is TrueNAS”? Let me give you a quick overview of iXsystems history and why many people are using TrueNAS instead of legacy storage from EMC and NetApp.
iXsystems was founded almost 20 years ago and is an employee owned and operated company that puts customers first. We deliver unified storage and servers as well as support open source projects including FreeBSD and FreeNAS, which is the world’s leading open source software defined storage solution.
TrueNAS is FreeNAS, but enhanced for the enterprise. Why DIY when you can buy? There’s no substitute for the performance, functionality, high availability, and professional software support of a TrueNAS enterprise storage appliance.
Many vendors have spent 10s of thousands of hours developing disk protection (think NetApp’s RAID-DP), but tend to ignore the silent corrupter of data, bit-rot. Data is the lifeblood of your organization, yet backups and RAID technology can’t protect against bit-rot — TrueNAS can. We have RAID technology to protect your disks, and we protect your data from bit-rot.
We don’t believe in publishing IOPS or latency figures — these are valuable, but are useless in the real world. A technical marketing person can cherry pick any number to make them look good and other vendors look bad. The only number of interest is what you see in your own environment. We’ve sold into many industries, including education, high-tech and health care, and the one common thread is that TrueNAS performed significantly better than existing NetApp and EMC solutions.
When it comes to pricing, we have the best cost for performance/capacity. It is not uncommon for a customer to call us after seeing our quote and ask “where is the rest of the quote”? Seriously, why do the other guys charge so much? Because they have to support huge organizations and their shareholders.
You can also contact us at +1 (855) 473.7449 or via email at sales@ixsystems.com. You can request a quote here. You can also get more information on TrueNAS here.
Matt Olander
Co-founder and Chief Science Officer
