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April 06, 2021 Press Release Research Firm Recognizes iXsystems as "Rising Vendor" Among Leading Storage Providers. iXsystems, a leading provider of open storage solutions, today announced that the Data Center Infrastructure Group (DCIG) has named the company's TrueNAS Open Storage software platform as one of the Top 5 Software Defined Storage (SDS) Block Storage Solutions. In the report titled "2021-22 DCIG Top 5 Rising Vendors SDS Block Storage Solutions," TrueNAS Open Storage excelled in multiple areas to outperform comparable SDS solutions, including the ability to support file and object services in addition to block.According to the report, "iXsystems has decades…

Enlarge / There's a lot to unpack in this infographic, which serves as a pretty concise description of what TrueNAS SCALE is and does—or will do, when it's completely finished. Today, storage vendor iXsystems is launching a new R-series hyperconverged infrastructure appliance for its TrueNAS product line—and the first alpha release of TrueNAS SCALE, a Debian Linux-based version of the TrueNAS storage distribution. The new R-series appliances are designed to run either traditional, FreeBSD-based TrueNAS, or the new Debian-based TrueNAS SCALE. The series launches with four models—all rack-mounted—ranging from the 1U, 16-bay TrueNAS R10 to the up to 12U, 52…

We really like the HPE ProLiant MicroServer Gen10 Plus that came out a little over a year ago. The idea was to pack the capabilities and power of a server into a tiny form factor that can be used in edge locations or just in offices that don’t have spaces for an entire rack setup. We went into some depth in our first review as well as a video on our YouTube channel. A few months later, we took this tiny server and installed TrueNas CORE to get impressive NAS capabilities into a small footprint that can handle it. While we…

iXsystems has announced that its two open source operating systems for network attached storage are unifying. Moving forward, FreeNAS and TrueNAS will merge into TrueNAS Open Storage. Despite the unification, there will still be two versions of the operating system available: TrueNAS CORE and TrueNAS Enterprise. Both are billed as enterprise-quality software, but TrueNAS Enterprise requires a license and offers an extended set of features, while TrueNAS CORE is free. iXsystems cites a number of benefits of the unification, including a faster development cycle because of the largely shared code base. Introducing the changes, the organization stresses there will always…

Gold winner in Storage magazine and SearchStorage's 2018 Products of the Year in backup and disaster recovery hardware category. The Asigra TrueNAS Backup Appliance is Asigra Inc.'s software integrated into iXsystems Inc.'s hardware to form a comprehensive data protection and backup product. Asigra's Cloud Backup Evolved V14 offers advanced malware detection and prevention to secure backup copies from ransomware, while iXsystems' TrueNAS brings OpenZFS open source storage and scalability up to 10 petabytes per system. The TrueNAS Backup Appliance counters ransomware infections targeting backup data. It cuts off this vector of attack by securing backup and restore streams, varying names…