JFK Presidential Library Chooses iXsystems TrueNAS

The John F Kennedy Library Foundation has selected iXsystems’s TrueNAS M-Series unified storage to store, serve, and protect its entire digital archive.

JFK Presidential Library Chooses Ixsystems Truenas

This is in support of the collection at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum (JFK Library). Over the next several years, the foundation hopes to grow the digital collection from hundreds of terabytes today to cover much more of the archives at the Library. Overall there is a total of 25 million documents, audio recordings, photos, and videos once the project is complete.

Having first deployed the TrueNAS M50-HA earlier in 2019, the library has completed the migration of its existing digital collection and is in the process of digitizing much of the rest of its vast collection.

“The migration of massive amounts of terabytes wouldn’t have happened without the support of iXsystems,” said Steven M. Rothstein, JFK Library executive director

The catalog of material vast, and is also diverse, with files being copied to the storage system from a variety of sources in numerous file types. To achieve this goal, the library required a high-end NAS system capable of sharing with a variety of systems throughout the digitization process. The digital archive will be served from the TrueNAS M50 and made available to both in-person and online visitors.

With precious material and information comes robust demands.
The highly-available TrueNAS M-Series has multiple layers of protection to help keep data safe, including data scrubs, checksums, unlimited snapshots, replication. It is also inherently scalable with data shares only limited by the number of drives connected to the pool. For archival storage, the deployed TrueNAS M50 will grow with the library’s content, expanding its storage capacity over time as needed. Supporting a variety of protocols, multi-petabyte scalability in a single share, and anytime, uninterrupted capacity expansion, the TrueNAS M-Series ticked all the right boxes.

“The library’s mission of opening up the information to the public really aligns with the Open Source ethic and open flow of information on which iXsystems itself is built,” said Brett Davis, EVP, iXsystems.