BSDCan 2017 Recap
Last week, the iXsystems Team traveled up to Ottawa, Canada for the annual BSDCan 2017 Conference. To no one’s surprise, the conference was filled with multiple events and work sessions, aimed to further empower and inform the local FreeBSD community of all the new and exciting events happening in the world of FreeBSD. Read all about Ken Moore and Samantha Bonham’s personal reflections on their experience at the conference.
FreeNAS 11.0 is Now Here
The FreeNAS Development Team is proud to present FreeNAS 11.0! FreeNAS 11.0 brings new virtualization and object storage features to the World’s Most Popular Open Source Storage Operating System. FreeNAS 11.0 adds bhyve virtual machines to its popular SAN/NAS, jails, and plugins, letting you use host web-scale VMs on your FreeNAS box. It also gives users S3-compatible object storage services, which turns your FreeNAS box into an S3-compatible server, letting you avoid reliance on the cloud.
Introducing The TrueNAS Unified Storage X10 (Part 1 of 2)
Our own Director of Product Management, Steve Wong, details the technical merits of the new TrueNAS X10. He gives a general technical overview of each component of the new TrueNAS X10 by iXsystems. Be on the lookout for Steve’s second part of this blog.
iXsystems’ TrueNAS X10 Breaks New Ground With Entry Level Enterprise-Class Unified Storage Solution
The TrueNAS X10 is a cost-effective enterprise storage solution that is designed to help small and midsized businesses modernize their storage infrastructures. The TrueNAS X10 comes in a dense 2U form factor accommodating up to 12 disk drives. It enables you to reduce space, power and cooling costs and respond to ever-changing business requirements. It is optimized for SMBs, remote offices, and enterprises of all sizes. It lets you start small and grow to nearly 400 TB as your needs change.
iXsystems’ TrueNAS Receives Veeam Backup Certification
iXsystems, the industry leader in storage and servers driven by Open Source, today announced that it has passed the Veeam Backup and Replication v9.5 for VMware certification tests for the TrueNAS Z20, TrueNAS Z30, TrueNAS Z35, and TrueNAS Z50 TrueFlash line of unified enterprise storage systems that are running TrueNAS v9.10 or later.
FreeNAS QA – Our Processes
VeeamON Wrap-up
iXsystem’s Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Brad Meyer writes about his experience at the 2017 VeeamON Conference.
Combating WannaCry and Other Ransomware with OpenZFS Snapshots
iXsystems’ Senior Analyst, Michael Dexter, writes about how OpenZFS Snapshots can help to combat against the recent WannaCry attack and other ransomware.
Kansas Linux Fest: Conference Report
Last weekend, the iXsystems team attended the Kansas Linux Fest 2017 conference. Though it was a smaller conference, the iX team still got the opportunity to meet and conversate with numerous people about FreeNAS, FreeBSD, and TrueOS. Joe Maloney and Ken Moore of iXsystems detail their individual experiences in this reflection blog post.
2 More Things About TrueNAS Replication Your Boss Wants To Know
iXsystems’ Sales Engineer, John Sanderson returns to add onto the importance of data replication and how to replicate your data using TrueNAS. Specifically, John goes over using TrueNAS Snapshots and Local Data Replication.