Clearly-Defined Storage
“Software-Defined Storage” or SDS for short is a buzzword that has created not only impressive excitement, but also significant confusion. From Software-Managed Storage to Hardware-Agnostic Storage, “SDS” needs clarification before you make your next buying decision.
Worried About IBM DS End-Of-Life? These Are The Six Things You Need To Know About TrueNAS
Recently IBM announced the end of life of the DS series, requiring users to move their data to a new storage array when their support coverage ends. IBM asked users to move to the Storwize V3700 storage array. Instead of sticking with IBM and worrying about moving...
Considering A Dell All-Flash SC4020? Six Things To Consider About The TrueNAS Z50 TrueFlash
Recently Dell announced an all-flash version of their SC4020 Array that they position as more economical than other All-Flash Arrays. In this article we cover six ways that a TrueNAS storage array is the real storage disruptor and explain where TrueNAS provides better value than the Dell SC4020.
Badlock (CVE-2016-2118) and TrueNAS and FreeNAS
A general heads-up and JFYI from Jordan Hubbard on the case of the “Badlock” security vulnerability in Samba, the tool used by FreeNAS and TrueNAS to provide SMB networking.
OpenZFS vs. the Competition
Most storage vendors don’t talk about the file systems under the hood of their products, and for good reason: Your average file system is taking few precautions to guarantee the integrity of your data and never will. Learn how OpenZFS compares to other file systems found in popular storage products and why it powers every storage product that we sell.
FreeNAS 9.10 Released
2016 will bring revolutionary changes to the world’s number one software-defined storage solution and it all starts with this week’s FreeNAS 9.10 release which unveils the operating system that will power the next generation of FreeNAS.
FreeNAS CLI Preview
The evolution of FreeNAS has been both subtle and revolutionary over its decade-long history and next generation of FreeNAS is poised to introduce the biggest changes yet to the world’s most popular software-defined storage OS.
iXsystems’ TrueNAS Tops the Latest DCIG Buyer’s Guide
iXsystems, the industry pioneer in enterprise storage and servers driven by Open Source, today announced that the TrueNAS Z35 received the top ranking from DCIG in their 2016-2017 iSCSI SAN Utility Storage Array Buyer’s Guide. Representing iXsystems’ fourth DCIG Buyer’s Guide win, the iSCSI SAN Utility Storage Array Buyer’s Guide evaluated more than 100 different criteria across 67 different storage arrays from 14 different storage vendors, including Dell, HP, EMC, and NetApp.
The Myth of Effective Storage Capacity
If you ask a vendor for a quote for 30TB of storage, do you get 30TB of usable storage? You will from iXsystems, but from the others you will not get it as often as you might expect. This blog post details what you get with iXsystems and how some vendors entice you with their myth of storage capacity.
To SLOG or not to SLOG: How to best configure your ZFS Intent Log
This article aims to provide the information needed to understand what the ZIL does and how it works to help you determine when SLOG will help and how to optimize write performance in general.