We’re Expanding!
As you may know, last year saw an increase in demand for our storage and server products and that demand continues to grow. When we started out, we were just a small group of close-knit people. Over the years, we steadily added more and more talent to our company and before we knew it, we […]
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DCIG Awards iXsystems TrueNAS “Excellent” Rating (in 2015-2016 Midsize Enterprise Hybrid Storage Array Buyer’s Guide)
iXsystems, an industry leader in storage and servers driven by Open Source, today announced its TrueNAS Z20 and TrueNAS Z30 both were named “Excellent” by industry research firm DCIG in the 2015-2016 DCIG Midsize-Enterprise Hybrid Storage Buyer’s Guide. This news comes only a mere few weeks after the TrueNAS Z20 was also awarded an “Excellent” rating in the Small/Midsize Enterprise (SME) Hybrid Storage Buyer’s Guide as well.
DCIG Awards TrueNAS with Another Excellent in Latest Guide
We are pleased to announce that industry analyst firm DCIG just gave the TrueNAS Z20 and TrueNAS Z30 an “Excellent” rating in their 2015-2016 Midsize Enterprise Storage Array Buyer’s Guide. This is an outstanding testament to the growing recognition that TrueNAS is...
TrueNAS High-Availability (HA) Explained
I am often asked if the two storage controllers in a TrueNAS high availability configuration are active/active or active/passive. They’re neither. They’re “active/standby.” Allow me to explain the difference. In the case of an active/passive and active/standby disk...
Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks
If you’ve noticed, we don’t publish IOPS or latency numbers for TrueNAS or FreeNAS storage. Now, we realize if you’re comparing storage solutions by looking at brochures and fact sheets, this might be frustrating, but I assure you we don’t do it because we’re hiding anything. In fact, it’s quite the opposite. We do it because it’s in your best interest.
DCIG Research Awards iXsystems TrueNAS “Excellent” Rating (in 2015-2016 Hybrid Storage Array Buyer’s Guide)
iXsystems, an industry leader in storage and servers driven by Open Source, today announced its TrueNAS Z20 hybrid storage array was named “Excellent” by industry research firm DCIG in the 2015-2016 DCIG Small and Midsize Enterprise Hybrid Storage Buyer’s Guide.
TrueNAS 9.3 State of the Union
I’m excited to announce the release of version 9.3 of our TrueNAS Storage Appliance software. Simply put, this is the best release in our enterprise storage line yet. The first thing you’ll notice is a simplified and redesigned Web UI. We’ve removed the interface tabs...
iXsystems Releases Major Software Update to TrueNAS Unified Storage Appliance
The TrueNAS 9.3 release features improved virtualization support with the addition of new VMware VAAI primitives. The newly added VAAI Block primitives include Write Same Zero to save resources on writes, XCOPY which reduces VM deployment time by having TrueNAS perform large data transfers, and Atomic Test and Set, which increases the number of VMs you can place on a datastore backed by TrueNAS. Also supported is the SCSI UNMAP command, which is used to recover capacity when a VM is moved or deleted.
A Complete Guide to FreeNAS Hardware Design, Part IV: Network Notes & Conclusion
Network FreeNAS is a NAS and/or IP-SAN (via iSCSI)…which means everything happens over the network. If you are after performance, you are going to want good switches and server grade network cards. If you are building a home media setup, everything might be happening over wireless, in which case network performance becomes far less […]