TrueNAS / iXsystems - IT Press Tour #60 Jan. 2025

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2025

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We Provide Open Enterprise Storage ● 20 Years in Business ● 2 Primary Campuses in USA ● 60% Fortune 500 Companies ● Customers in 100 Countries ● Worldʼs Largest Storage Community ● 1 Million Users ● Used in Every Country ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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TrueNAS Strong growth in 2024 More NVMe Flash Capacity Deployed More TrueNAS Enterprise Appliances on Linux Technology 450% 900 % Increase in $1M Deployments Most growth in M&E & Defense Deployment 300% Growth in TrueNAS Community Edition Gartner Peer Insights Primary Storage Rating 104% 4.9 Quality Compound Growth Rate since 2021 Business 40% ©2025 iXsystems, Inc. Growth in EMEA in 2024 39%

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TrueNAS Powers Critical Industries Worldwide Global Reach - over 60% of the Fortune 500

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Storage Customer Choice Leader 3x Gartner Peer Insights Customers Choice Winner ● 24/7 support with a dedicated team for large deployments ● Expertise in high-performance, air-gapped solutions for mission-critical industries ● Post-deployment partnership to ensure optimal performance Gartner's Highest Customer Satisfaction Rating 4.9 As rated by enterprise customers Evaluation & Contracting 4.8 4.9 4.9 4.8 Integration & Deployment Service & Support Product Capabilities Customer Experience ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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TrueNAS M and R Series are powering groundbreaking astronomy research at two locations in Hawaii.

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TrueNAS M50-HA is at the heart of advanced space exploration.

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10PB of TrueNAS assists real-time production on some of the world’s most popular films.

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TrueNAS Appliance Portfolio From Mission Critical to Branch Office Branch Office TrueNAS Mini Series Power Optimized TrueNAS HSeries Capacity Optimized TrueNAS MSeries Cost Optimized TrueNAS RSeries Performance Optimized TrueNAS FSeries ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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TrueNAS FSeries Overview Maximum Flash Density, Highest Performance Use Case High Performance Media Production, Enterprise, Virtualization, etc High Availability Dual Controller Supported Media NVMe Flash Form Factor 2U - 14U Rackmount Capacity Up to 10 PB Bandwidth Up to 4x 100 GbE Performance Optimized ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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EnCharge AI deployed the all-NVMe TrueNAS F100 as a high-performance file server for scalable Electronic Design Automation EDA) tools

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Overview High Capacity, High Availability Use Case Mission Critical Enterprise, M&E for Active Archive, Backup High Availability Dual Controller Supported Media Hybrid (Disk & Flash) Or All Flash Form Factor 4U - 52U Rackmount Capacity Up to 25 PB per Rack Bandwidth Up to 200 Gbit/s TrueNAS MSeries Capacity Optimized ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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Digital Film Tree migrated to 4x TrueNAS M50, powering 100Gb ingest for 4K post-production on Ted Lasso.

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Overview Versatile, Energy Efficient, High Availability Use Case Small and Medium Enterprise & M&E, Edge High Availability Dual Controller Supported Media Hybrid (Disk & Flash) Or All NVMe Flash Form Factor 2U - 6U Rackmount Capacity Up to 2.5 PB Bandwidth Up to 100 Gbit/s TrueNAS HSeries HA Standard Power Optimized ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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Hilliard City Schools added a TrueNAS H10, allowing extracurricular clubs to store video at a fraction of the cost of their existing Nimble SAN

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Overview High-Density Performance and Capacity, Value-Oriented Use Case Multi-Purpose, Backup or Tier 0 High Availability No Supported Media Hybrid (Disk & Flash) Or All Flash Form Factor 1U - 12U Rackmount Capacity Up to 5 PB Bandwidth Up to 200 Gbit/s TrueNAS RSeries Cost Optimized ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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Skywalker Sound relies on TrueNAS RSeries for real-time AI processing of streaming content.

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TrueNAS Data Platform Summary Enabling a Suite of Data Services Unified Storage Data Protection and Governance Data Security and Encryption Data Migration and Replication Disaster Recovery and Backup Cloud & Hybrid Solutions ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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“Blazing fast, exceeds expectations.” Customer Reviews

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“Their TrueNAS platform stands out as the most ﬂexible and efﬁcient storage solution on the market.” Customer Reviews

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“Both their sales and engineering teams demonstrate an unparalleled level of care and commitment that I haven't experienced with any other vendor.” Customer Reviews

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Gartner Reviews Voice of the customer- Why customers adopt TrueNAS Enterprise ● 100% praise our Support ● 90% praise our Reliability ● 90% praise our Performance ● 70% praise our Cost-Effectiveness ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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The 30,000 foot view of TrueNAS Performance - NVMe & HDD Pools - TrueNAS Appliances Security - Ransomware - FIPS/NIST Support - Enterprise 247 - Management Tool TrueNAS Reliability - High Availability - Backup and Replication - APIs, WebUI, Tools Open Source Storage - OpenZFS - Linux - RDMA for NFS and iSCSI - TrueNAS Appliances - KMIP Integration - FIPS/NIST - Enterprise 247 - Management Tools - High Availability - Snaps, Backup, Replication - APIs, WebUI, Tools - OpenZFS - Linux Enterprise Community Edition Performance Security Support TrueNAS Reliability Open Source Storage

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TrueNAS Platform Summary Unified Storage for all Major Use Cases - Deploy 100 TB to 100 PB with ease Versatile storage targeting M&E, Enterprise file, Virtualization, AI, CCTV and Backup. • Disk, Hybrid, or NVMe Flash • File, Object, Block • Defense-level Security • Apps and VM Platform ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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The Backbone of TrueNAS Reliability Complete Data Integrity Self-Healing Protection Enterprise Security ZettaByte Scalability NVMe Flash Performance The Most Trusted File System Native ZFS Integration ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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RELEASE PHASE MISSION IMPACT Development Transparent GitHub code eliminates hidden risks. Testing Community and Hacker testing ensures security. Community Deployment Reliability proven by 100,000+ users in the real world before Enterprises. Enterprise Deployment Independent audits enhance trust. TrueSecure adds Defense-level Security Upgrades Transparent updates ensure security and rapid threat response. Open Enterprise Storage = Reliable & Secure Strong Adoption in highly secure environments due to auditability ©2025 iXsystems, Inc. These customer logos are confidential

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TrueNAS Continues to Evolve in 2025 Apps: Docker, LXC, VMs RAIDZ Expansion & dRAID Fast Copy Fast Dedup OpenZFS Cloud Backup Cloud-Based Management Large-Scale Systems Trimode NVMe with HA ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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Fangtooth TrueNAS 25.04 Enterprise-Focused Features ● Fast Dedup ● SMB Block Cloning for Veeam ● iSCSI XCOPY Block Cloning for VMware ● Fibre Channel with HA NVMe ● iSCSI & NFS over RDMA ● LXCs & Improved VMs ● General Purpose OS STIG Completion ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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Block Cloning is 10x Faster Data is Copied logically without needing Dedup Processing & Metadata Benefits of Cloning ● Copy data logically not physically ● No extra storage space ● Only Metadata WRITES ● 90% less network traffic ● 10X acceleration iSCSI Block Cloning for SMB File Cloning for ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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Chassis 2U Form Factor 100240V AC < 500 W Typical, 850 W Peak Drives NVME up to 720 TB HDD up to 300 TB TrueNAS Enterprise File, Block, Object, Apps, VMs OpenZFS data management Replication ZFS, rsync, cloud) TrueSecure - encryption, immutability TrueNAS H30 Power Optimized With HA Standard ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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TrueNAS H30 Power Optimized With HA Standard Controller 2 HA Controllers 20 Core, 256GB 8GB/s Expansion Shelf Up to 2.5 PB ES24/60/102G2 Network Fabric Flexible networking Ethernet Up to 100 Gbe Fibre Channel Up to 32 Gb ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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Any TrueNAS Unified Storage Restore Anywhere TrueNAS to StorJ Backup 80% Massive Savings vs AWS TrueNAS System ● Cloud Backup to Storj ● Globally Distributed ● 11 Nineʼs Reliability ● Restore Anywhere ● No need for second Data Center Encryption Deduplication Region Locking ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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1. Balanced Edge-Core-Cloud Strategy 2. Virtualization Upheaval 3. Data Sovereignty for Everyone 4. Big Datasets Everywhere 5. Defense-level Security for Enterprise 5 New Trends In Storage What Weʼre Hearing from TrueNAS Customers ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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Trend #1 Balanced Edge-Core-Cloud Strategy Getting it right means understanding the tradeoffs ● Organizations better understand the strengths, limitations and costs ● Weʼre seeing strong data repatriation from Cloud to Core PBs ● Scarcity of storage expertise is a challenge ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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TrueNAS Portfolio Map to Edge, Core, Cloud From Mission Critical to Branch Office TrueNAS Mini Series TrueNAS HSeries TrueNAS MSeries EDGE TrueNAS FSeries TrueNAS RSeries CORE CLOUD TrueCloud Backup Powered By: TrueNAS CloudSync to S3 Compatible Object Stores ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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Trend #2 Virtualization Upheaval Storage budgets are increasingly tight. ● License Cost pressure impacts storage choices ● Lots of interest: either as Primary or Backup Tier ● Demand for alternative hypervisor support ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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Trend #2 Virtualization Upheaval Tier 1 Critical Business Applications TrueNAS FSeries Tier 2 Enterprise File Shares, Virtualization TrueNAS MSeries Tier 3 Near-Line Storage, Backup Storage TrueNAS RSeries TrueNAS reduces storage costs by 30% ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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Trend #3 Data Sovereignty for Everyone A New Era of (dis)Trust: Control your Data, Control your Destiny ● Everyone wants their own (private) copy ● Driven by government requirements and organizational security ● …and increasingly, AI privacy concerns ● Retention requires reliable storage ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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● Aligned with Open-Source Security Mandates ● Supports AI and Critical Infrastructure Projects ● Proven Reliability in Large-Scale Deployments ● Cost-Effective with No Proprietary Licensing Fees Trend #3 Data Sovereignty for Everyone ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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1 Trend #3 Digital Sovereignty and Data Governance “Silent corruptions are a fact of life.” (they lost 17% of their data to bitrot) “Silent corruptions are a fact of life.” 17% of data loss was attributed to bit rot in test study

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5 Racks of TrueNAS MSeries, totalling 100 PB for the most security-conscious organizations. Trend #3 Data Sovereignty for Everyone

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Trend #4 Big Datasets Everywhere Driven by exponential data generation in AI, M&E, and Research ● It’s not just a problem for the hyperscalers ● Strong need for high capacity and high bandwidth ● Majority of use cases can be cost-optimized ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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75 PB of storage across 3 sites with completely secure, private access. Trend #4 Big Datasets Everywhere INTERNATIONAL RELIEF

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How do you edit the video for this?? With .

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Vegas Sphere Video Production in 10K resolution. Trend #4 Big Datasets Everywhere Primary Site 2nd Site

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Trend #5 Enterprises Adopting Defense-level Security Ransomware isnʼt slowing down. 7x more attacks on AWS in 2024. ● NIST and FIPS-level security for secure-conscious organizations ● Immutable snapshots and Role Based Access Control ● Increasing demand for secure 3-2-1 backup best practices ● Secure Backup solutions with Veeam / Asigra / StorJ ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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TrueNAS M50-HA Powers 2.5 PB of Production, Backup, and Archival Storage for Satellite Data

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Defense-Level Security with TrueNAS Enterprise TrueSecure Encryption & Data Security Admin & Vendor Security Management & Client Options TrueSecure ● FIPS validation ● FIPS 140-3 Software Encryption ● FIPS 140-2 Drives (optional) ● KMIP, NIST 800-171 ● STIG Support ● NIST CSF orientation Data Share Security ● SMBv3 Encryption ● NFSv4 ACLs ● Snapshot Retention ● Immutable S3 Buckets ● SMB Auditing Data-in-Transit Encryption ● ZFS replication ● FIPS 140 Validated SSH ● AES256 encryption ● Wireguard VPNs Data-at-Rest Encryption ● Per ZFS dataset or pool ● AES-256 grade ● Self-encrypting Drives ● FIPS 140-2 HDDs & SSDs Admin Security ● Active Directory, Kerberos ● LDAP, Google OAuth ● KMIP Key Management ● SSH with FIPS 140-3 ● Rootless Administration ● Separate Management Network Vendor Security ● Security Notices ● Software Bill of Materials (BoM) ● Pen Testing ● Open Source Code ● Community Testing Clients ● SMB ● NFS ● iSCSI ● S3 Management ● TrueCommand ● SNMP ● Syslog ● WebUI ● SSH ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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“TrueNAS and Storj provided a complete 3-2-1 solution for my VMware-Veeam backup environment, and support was fantastic.” Josh Herr IT Director at Geiger Ready-Mix 1 PB+ data protected ©2025 iXsystems, Inc.

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News Summary ©2025 iXsystems, Inc. January: TrueNAS H30 Brings High-Performance, Eco-Friendly Storage to Multi-Site Edge Environments February: TrueNAS Delivers Record Growth in 2024, Plans Strategic Expansions in 2025 February: TrueNAS Integrates Storj for Decentralized, Cost-Effective Cloud Backup March: TrueNAS FSeries Breaks New Ground in Density and Performance March: Warwick University Accelerates Cancer Research with TrueNAS and OMERO April: TrueNAS Enterprise 25.04 Launches with Fast Deduplication and RaidZ Expansion

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TrueNAS in 2025 The Future of Storage is Open