iXsystems Opens Technology Campus in Maryville, TN

iXsystems, Inc. announced the company’s 20th anniversary with the opening of its TrueNAS Innovation Center located at 333 E. Broadway Ave in downtown Maryville, TN.

Celebrating with a ribbon-cutting at the facility, company executives will be joined by several regional dignitaries, including Drew Miles, City of Maryville Councilman, and Bryan Daniels, president and CEO of Blount Partnership.

The TrueNAS Innovation Center is the largest commercial office building in downtown Maryville and will host elements of all business functions. It features a data center to advance research, development, testing, certification, and support of TrueNAS software and TrueNAS enterprise storage systems.

iXsystems grew TrueNAS revenues 70% Y/Y in 2021 and has continued to grow revenue and invest in new employees in 2022.

“Beginning with 3 employees in Silicon Valley 20 years ago, and 3 employees in our first Maryville office in 2016, iXsystems has now grown beyond 200 passionate employees around the world to serve TrueNAS users and customers,” said Michael Lauth, CEO. “We chose eastern Tennessee to invest in continued growth, and look forward to our larger role as an employer of choice in the region.“

The promise of true data freedom made possible by TrueNAS open source software has driven more organizations to choose TrueNAS for their demanding storage needs.

TrueNAS R50 platform delivers high capacity and enhanced service ability
The company has also launched the next gen of its TrueNAS R50 unified storage appliances. The R50 Gen3 has been improved with a modular architecture enabling easy system controller upgrades or replacements. The TrueNAS R50 strengthens the R-Series product line and complements the M-Series with its built-in HA.

Designed for the most data-intensive IT environments, TrueNAS R50 systems can grow to over 1PB of HDD capacity and up to 60TB of NVMe flash in only 4U of rack space. With expansion shelves, a system can expand to up to 5PB of hybrid storage capacity with 100GbE networking. TrueNAS SCALE clustering and enclosure management are available for scale-out customers, and migration from scale-up is also available.

“Interest in Open Source Storage continues to accelerate, and our new R50 model improves our TrueNAS appliance portfolio that already spans from small offices to the largest data centers under one unified software experience,” said Brett Davis, EVP. “The iX team is energized by our latest investments which will fuel the delivery of new products and grow our support functions to continue to build on the already excellent experiences our customers report.“