1 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | | Brett Davis EVP Sales & Marketing [email protected] Morgan Littlewood SVP Products [email protected] Mario Blandini VP Marketing [email protected] June 7, 2022 IT Press Tour #44 Kris Moore SVP Engineering [email protected] 

2 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | | Agenda - IT Press Tour iX EMERGENCE 01 iX NEWS & BUSINESS RECAP 02 TrueNAS EDITIONS & APPLIANCES 03 FUTURE PLANS 04 “FOCUS GROUP” + BONUS GUEST 05 

3 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | | Storage: The “last bastion” in the data center stack not yet overtaken by Open Source 

4 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | A zettabyte of data freedom 

5 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | About iX and TrueNAS ● iX is an Open Source pioneer and the company behind TrueNAS, the world's most deployed storage software. ● Used by millions, TrueNAS has laid the foundation for the Open Storage Era so that all organizations can access the benefits of true Data Freedom. ● TrueNAS enables users to harness the power of the legendary ZFS file system and provides unified and hyperconverged storage for private and cloud datacenters, with the reliability and performance demanded by virtualization, backup, and other data-intensive workloads. ● Thousands of organizations around the world have chosen TrueNAS Enterprise systems and support from iX to scale-up or scale-out their infrastructure while leveraging Open Source economics. 

6 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | What We Hope You Remember ● iX is different than our “big box” competitors ○ The company has grown to be a thriving medium sized company ○ TureNAS is the world’s most widely deployed storage software ○ Our community of ~250K users is powerful ● Our offerings are extensible without adding complexity ○ One user experience for environments from very small to very large ○ One support experience across hardware and software ○ One management experience across iX appliances and systems running open source ● The Open Storage Era has begun, and iX is part of its foundation 

7 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | Growing an Open Source technology business without Venture Capital The History of iXsystems and TrueNAS 2002 2010 2013 2021 Unified FreeNAS and TrueNAS and added scale-out edition TrueNAS Unification ~200 Employees Global Footprint Started the business with Servers designed for Open Source Open Source Servers No VCs - Profitable, self-funded growth Entered the storage business with HA appliances TrueNAS HA >6,000 Customers in many industries Locations: Silicon Valley (HQ) & Knoxville, TN | Salespeople in global regions Developed FreeNAS and integrated OpenZFS FreeNAS & ZFS >15M Downloads Millions of deployments 

8 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | The Industry’s #1 Open Storage >1 Million Deployments and 4-10 Exabytes >250K User Community and #1 ZFS Distribution Wide range of Platforms for Deployment Flexibility Enterprise Storage with Open Source Economics Enterprise features, security, integrations, & support Manage data growth with cost-effective scalability Choose software edition & hardware that fits the workload Hybrid & All-Flash | Scale Up & Scale Out Unified File, Block, Object, and App Storage Industry-leading data management & CoW data integrity Data Center, Clouds, Edge systems 2022 

9 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | The NAS is Evolving with Time Network Attached Storage File Block Traditional NAS + 2016 + 2005 Apps Storage Network Unified File, Block Object Hyperconverged VMs, K8s Containers, Pods Scale-Out LANs, VLANS VPNs & Clouds Network. Apps. Storage. Next Gen NAS Object 

10 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | News thus far in 2022 ✓ TrueNAS 12.0-U8 sets the stage for TrueNAS 13.0 & SCALE 22.02 (Date: Feb 2nd) ✓ TrueNAS 13.0 BETA improves scale-up unified storage (Date: Feb 8th) ✓ TrueNAS SCALE: First official RELEASE of TrueNAS on Linux (Date: Feb 22nd) ✓ iXsystems Channel Embraces TruePartner Program (Date: April 20th) ✓ TrueNAS 13.0 RELEASE + TrueNAS SCALE 22.02 U1 (Date: May 10th) ✓ User Survey::Excellent ratings and great NPS scores (Date: May 23rd) 

11 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | May 23, 2022 Press Release | User Survey Data, >8,400 Respondents “I would feel confident stepping up to TrueNAS Enterprise at work for more critical use cases” * Based on pre-release version of software TrueNAS NPS Score: 64.8 Net Promoter Score 

12 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | April 20, 2022 Press Release | TrueNAS GTM Strategy = A Virtuous Cycle OpenCore Product Promote via Community Open Source Economics Channel First Sales Model with RevMatchTM Open Storage >4,000 Opportunities / Year >1,000 New Customers / Year >70% Annual Growth 200+ Channel Partners 250,000 Members Scale-Up & Scale-Out >1,000 Partner opportunities /Year 

13 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | TrueNAS delivers Data Freedom to Thousands of Organizations CONFIDENTIAL - Permission Needed for Public Reference >40% of Fortune 500 have adopted TrueNAS & 70% revenue growth in 2021 

14 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | What Differentiates iX as a Business ● While our model is different, we possess the same fundamental requirements of other vendors ○ Sustainable profitability, Enterprise support, reliable supply chain, favorable lead times, etc… ● Bootstrapping allows us to focus 100% our on users and customers ○ Other vendors answer to Wall Street, VC’s and PE investors, and they must put profit first ● World class expertise in optimizing hardware for demanding workloads in open environments ○ Hardware matters. iX hardware and Enterprise support are the foundation of how we fund TrueNAS ● Our community of >250,000 users is powerful ○ Contributions allow iX to meet Enterprise quality standards at a fundamentally lower cost 

15 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Business Updates ✓ TrueNAS growth accelerated in 2021 (>70%) ✓ Fastest growing storage systems company ✓ Breakthrough of $100M/yr run rate ✓ TrueNAS used by >40% of Fortune 500 ✓ 200+ employees, actively hiring >30 open roles ✓ Newly expanded office in Knoxville, TN 

16 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | *** Coming News *** (Under Embargo) ✓ Gartner Peer Insights 4.9 of 5.0 rating (Date: June 14th) ✓ TrueNAS SCALE 22.02 is Feature Complete (Date: June 21st) ✓ TrueCommand 2.2 (Date: June 21st) ✓ TrueNAS 13.0 U1 is ready for Production (Date: June 28th) ✓ Milton Security customer release (Date: TBD June / July) ✓ iX & Western Digital partnership release (Date: TBD June / July) 

17 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | | TrueNAS Software & Appliances Scale-Up and Scale-Out Unified Storage (Embargo as marked) 

18 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Applying Open Source Economics to Storage and Data Management Mission: True Storage Freedom Enterprise Support File Block Object Apps Any Service HA Systems Servers Any System Appliances Single Pane Management TrueNAS Open Storage Easy Data Management ● Migrate ● Backup ● Archive ● Sync Clouds 

19 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | One Software, Three Editions. Choose the Edition that’s right for the application File Block Object Applications Data Management Data Replication Data Reduction Data Acceleration Admin/APIs Platform Mgmt Security/VPNs Networking Best “free” NAS Open Source SDS DIY - Community Supported Non-critical Apps Scale-up HA Appliances Dual Controller Platforms Up to 20 PB, Five 9’s Mission Critical Apps Scale-out Clusters SDS and Appliances Hyperconverged: Kubernetes, VMs Scale-out Storage 

20 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Status of Software deployments at end of May 2022 The Evolution FreeNAS SCALE 13.0 TrueNAS 12.0 TrueNAS 12.0 TN 12.0 TrueNAS 12.0 Mature Software - Enterprise Base - Low Growth Still getting updates from FreeNAS 11.3 TrueNAS 13.0 New software - Easy update - High growth New deployments + TrueNAS 12.0 Updates TrueNAS SCALE New software - New features - High growth Linux users + TrueNAS 12.0 Updates 

21 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | | TrueNAS 13.0 Now Available [email protected] www.TrueNAS.com +1-408-943-4100 

22 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | TrueNAS 12.0 was a Rock-Solid Base 2 Factor Authentication Allows additional hardening with apps such as Google Authenticator Major ZFS Upgrade First release based upon newly merged ZoL and FreeBSD Support ZFS Native Crypto Per-dataset encryption and support for encrypted at rest replications KMIP Support Enterprise Only! Keys and passwords to be stored and audited in offsite KMIP server Performance Improvements Kernel / SMP, ZFS, iSCSI, Samba and more Fusion Pools Metadata and Small IO on Flash for improved performance of traditional HDD pools NVME Hotplug Proper handling of NVME for HA and non HA swap events API Keys Allows driving TrueNAS APIs without sharing root password with applications VPN Support Support for OpenVPN Server and Client connections Improved Hardware Support Updated drivers, improved support for Ryzen and EPYC processors 

23 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | All the benefits of the TrueNAS 12.0 base plus major improvements May 10, 2022 Press Release | TrueNAS 13.0 = Greater Reliability Drive Scalability ● Greater efficiency for managing drives ● Extensively Tested with 1200 Drives OpenZFS 2.1 Improvements ● 80% faster pool import and failover ● Compatibility with TrueNAS SCALE SMB 4.15 Enhancements ● Security Vulnerability (CVE) addressed ● Virtual file systems improvements NFS and iSCSI Update ● NFSv4.2 support ● iSCSI bandwidth improvements FreeBSD 13.1 ● Dual socket performance ● Jails/Plugins compatibility ● Larger internal I/Os News: TrueNAS 13.0-U1 is due by end of june. Production Ready. 10K users in 1st 2 months 

24 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Industry’s Fastest ZFS Storage is now Upgradeable TrueNAS M-Series Over 20 GB/s & 1 Million IOPS 10,000+ VMs, and thousands of SMB/NFS Clients Up to 64 Cores, 1.5 TB RAM, 4 NVDIMMs Upgradeable with Common Chassis M30 starts at < $13,000 In-service Upgrades to M40, M50 and M60 Works with TrueNAS Enterprise or SCALE Maximum Storage Density with HA Up to 20 PB capacity, 8 PB All-Flash Capacity in a Rack Fusion pools (with NVMe) increase performance Compress and dedup to 50 PB+ TrueNAS ES102 TrueNAS ES24F 24 x 15TB SSDs per 2U 102 x 18TB HDDs per 4U TrueNAS M40 4 x 25/40/100GbE TrueNAS M50 4 x 100GbE High Density Expansion Shelves (8-12) M-Series TrueNAS M60 8 x 100GbE, 24 x HDDs/ 28 SSDs in 4U Now Upgradeable TrueNAS M30 4 x 25/40GbE 

25 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | TrueNAS 13.0 scalability Grow from 20TB to 20PB in a single Rack Upgrade Controllers Add Expansion Shelves Scale-up Systems TrueNAS M50 4 x 100GbE 40 Core/768GB RAM TrueNAS M60 4/8 x 100GbE 64 Core/ 1.5TB RAM ES60/ES102 1 -2 PB each M60 Nodes Up to 23PB 20GB/s Up to 1250 Drives = >20PB TrueNAS M30 4 x 25GbE 16 Core/128GB RAM Start at 20TB TrueNAS M40 4 x 50GbE 20 Core/256GB RAM TrueNAS 13.0 Scalability ● FreeBSD improvements ● TrueNAS API optimizations ● OpenZFS parallelization ● Much faster webUI ● 80% Faster Failover ● 2X Drives managed with ease ● 1250 Drives per system ● Stats uploaded to TrueCommand 

26 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | TrueCommand Network Application Services 13.0 Features TrueCommand ✓ Single pane of glass ✓ 24x7 Team operation ✓ RBAC, Audit, Single Sign-On (SSO) ✓ Alerting, Reporting, Analytics ✓ Docker, VM, Cloud Data Management ✓ Unlimited Snapshots & Restores ✓ Zero cost Clones ✓ Auto-restart ZFS Replication Data Protection ✓ Copy-on-Write, 2-Copy Metadata ✓ RAID-Z1/Z2/Z3, Mirrors ✓ Fast Resilvering & Replication ✓ Data Integrity CRC, Scrubbing Data Reduction ✓ Thin Provisioning ✓ In-line Compression, Zstandard ✓ Deduplication, Clones Data Acceleration ✓ All-Flash, Fusion, Multiple Pools ✓ ARC, L2ARC Read Cache ✓ Write Cache, Special VDEVs Networking ✓ IPv4,v6: 1- 100GbE, DHCP ✓ LAGG, VLANs, Firewall ✓ Fibre Channel (8-32Gb) Administration ✓ Web UI, Wizards, SNMP, Syslog ✓ REST API, WebSockets API ✓ Alerting, Email, In-Service Updates ✓ Tasks, Cron Jobs, Scripts, Reports ✓ Pro-active Support, Autotune Operating System ✓ FreeBSD, Boot mgmt, SSH ✓ Iocage jails, Bhyve VMs ✓ System logging, NTP Hardware Management ✓ IPMI Remote Management ✓ SAS JBODs, Global hot spares ✓ SMART Drive Management High Availability ✓ Dual Controllers, Auto Failover ✓ HA SAS, NVMe, NVDIMM ✓ Enclosure Management File ✓ NFS v3/4.x, SMBv1/2/3 ✓ AFP, FTP, WebDAV, rsync Block ✓ iSCSI, iSNS, VAAI, Cinder ✓ Fibre Channel, vCenter ✓ Certs: vSphere, Citrix, Veeam Object ✓ S3 Host API (Minio) ✓ Cloud sync/backup, Credentials Applications ✓ Plugins: Asigra, NextCloud, Iconik, Gitlab, Zoneminder, and more ✓ HA FreeBSD Jails/Plugins ✓ HA VMs (Linux/Docker/K8s) Security ✓ Self-Encrypted Drives (SEDs) ✓ Dataset encryption ✓ Encrypted transport, OpenVPN ✓ Active Directory, LDAP, 2FA ✓ Local users and groups ✓ Kerberos, ACLs, NIS ✓ FIPS 140-2 Level 2, KMIP Platform Services OpenZFS Services Enterprise = Blue 

27 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | | TrueNAS SCALE 22.02 is now Feature Complete [email protected] www.TrueNAS.com +1-408-943-4100 

28 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | resolves the bigger Data Issues Needs from Survey of Linux Foundation - Data Storage Trends 2021 Capacity Limit increased from 20PB to 2 Exabyte Bandwidth Limit of 20GB/s increased to 1,000 GB/s Scalability Limit of 1 rack, 4 CPUs and 1200 drives increased by 100X Data Migration is simplified by scalability of capacity and ingest speed. TrueNAS SCALE breaks the barriers Hybrid and Multi-cloud is enabled by integrated Kubernetes and KVM. 

29 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | TrueNAS SCALE integrates Linux Additional Tools ● Kubernetes/Docker ● KVM Virtualization ● Clustering/Scale-Out Finally, I have some decent storage software! News: SCALE 22.02.2 Due on June 21 20,000 Users after 4 Months 

30 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Press Release | “Twosday”: SCALE 22.02 released on Tuesday, 2/22/22 TrueNAS SCALE Status News: SCALE 22.02.2 Due on June 21 20,000 Users after 4 Months TrueNAS SCALE Angelfish Release Date: 2/22/22 Official name = SCALE 22.02 22.02.2 June 21, 2022 

31 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | TrueNAS SCALE integrates Helm, Tiller, and Kubernetes to simplify deployments of Containers, Pods, or VMs (future) SCALE Applications = Kubernetes and Helm Charts TrueNAS SCALE Application Catalog Hundreds of Applications now available thanks to Community and TrueCharts - including Docker Compose 

32 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | ZFS Pool TrueNAS SCALE Layout Options Controller 1 ✓ ZFS Pool ✓ Simplest ✓ RAID-Z Single Node ZFS Pool A B HA System Federated Mirrored Cluster Erasure-coded Cluster ✓ Two Nodes ✓ Shared Pool ✓ Scale-up HA ✓ Many Nodes ✓ Aggregated ✓ AD, LDAP, iSNS ✓ Mirror nodes ✓ Scale-out ✓ Gluster, SMB Controller 1 ZFS Pool A B Controller 2 ZFS Pool A B ZFS Pool ZFS Pool A B ✓ N+1, N+2 nodes ✓ Scale-out ✓ Gluster, SMB, S3 A B ZFS Pool ZFS Pool ZFS Pool Erasure-coded data Mirrored data Federated data Shared data Protected data News: SCALE 22.02.2 includes HA Support and Clustered SMB and S3 

33 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Unprecedented SCALE-ability Grow from 20TB to 20PB to 2EB Upgrade Controllers Add Expansion Shelves Scale-up Systems TrueNAS M50 4 x 100GbE 40 Core/768GB RAM TrueNAS M60 4/8 x 100GbE 64 Core/ 1.5TB RAM ES60/ES102 1 -2 PB each Each Rack 1-10 M-Series Nodes Up to 20PB 10 - 100GB/s Scale-out Clusters Add Systems & Racks Up to 100 Systems = 2EB Up to 1250 Drives = >20PB TrueNAS M30 4 x 25GbE 16 Core/128GB RAM Start at 20TB TrueNAS M40 4 x 50GbE 20 Core/256GB RAM 

34 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Take Command of your NAS Fleet TrueCommand simplifies Operations Remote Systems HTTPS REST API Hosted On: CLOUD HA Systems Fleet Automation Customizable Alerts and Per-Second Stats High level Dashboard & Detailed Reports Predictive Analytics & Rapid Fault Diagnostics ZFS and Cluster Intelligence Manages Users, Datasets, Snapshots Understand Pools, VDEVs, Caching Manages TrueNAS SCALE clusters Managed NAS Services Designed for 24x7 Operations team Integrated VPN and Role-Based Access Control Client and MSP Views with Web Proxy Single Pane Management Over 8,000 deployments and 100% CAGR Cloud/VM Instances TrueCommand 2.2, June 21, 2022 ● Clustered SMB + Better stats Direction: Usage-bases SaaS 

35 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | | Migrations from TrueNAS CORE to TrueNAS SCALE [email protected] www.TrueNAS.com +1-408-943-4100 

36 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | platforms can run all Versions TrueNAS X-Series 10TB 1000PB CORE BEST FREE NAS ENTERPRISE 24/7 ENTERPRISE SUPPORT SCALE UNLIMITED CAPACITY TrueNAS M-Series TrueNAS R-Series TrueNAS MINI TrueNAS Expansion Shelves Storage Media Choices Single Pane Management CLOUD TrueNAS Cloud Instances Migrations based on Customer Need ● Hyperconvergence ● Scale-out capacity ● Specific Apps/features 

37 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Simplifies operations and more quickly resolves issues on TrueNAS Minis & M/R-Series Units Enclosure Management for SCALE Professional Grade Appliances ECC RAM and IPMI Remote Mgmt TrueNAS SCALE adds Enclosure Management Only possible on iX platforms with known hardware Increased Reliability Built into TrueNAS UI for remote diagnosis Monitors disk status and temperatures Identifies any failed disks Simpler replacement with visual indication News: TrueNAS Minis now available with TrueNAS SCALE 22.02.2 

38 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Each user decides if and when migration makes sense TrueNAS SCALE Migration Options TrueNAS CORE Full Suite of TrueNAS Services >3 Million Years of FreeBSD System testing with ZFS Includes AFP - even Apple no longer supports Includes FreeBSD Jails and Plugins No Linux App Containers or Scale-out TrueNAS SCALE Full Suite of TrueNAS Services <10 Thousand Years of Linux System testing with ZFS No AFP, Jails or Plugins Includes Linux App Containers and Scale-out capabilities Much broader application catalog Mini E Quad 1GbE 4 x 3.5” Bays Data Migration All SMB, NFS Shares All iSCSI and VM zvols (LUNs) Plugin datasets -> Apps datasets AFP shares migrate to SMB Typical User process ● Backup data for safety ● Download SCALE ● Load on Boot device ● Reboot ● Deploy new Apps 

39 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | 3.2M Views of this Migration from Windows to TrueNAS CORE for Video Editing Linus Techtips deploys TrueNAS Core then SCALE 

40 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | SCALE DEMO Kris Moore SVP Engineering [email protected] 

41 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | | FUTURE PLANS Bluefin is Hatched (Embargo as marked) NOTE - While we ask that futures not be considered for in-depth stories prior to availability, mention of “Globally Distributed Storage in the Bluefin Release” or similar as part of current news is OK 

42 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Builds on the success of Angelfish with over 20,000 Users, 4 Month after Release - Growing 100% a Quarter TrueNAS SCALE - BlueFin (Q4-22) SCALE Version Current Next Icon Codename Angelfish Bluefin Status Update 2 Nightly Official name 22.02 22.TBD Release Target Released Feb 2022 Late 2022 Key Features Kubernetes/Apps Scale-out Snapshots KVM with HA Enterprise Support Scale-out ZFS Cluster CSI for Kubernetes Clustered SMB Add/Remove Nodes Bluefin Security Wireguard VPNs Rootless API Keys for RBAC Ransomware protection FIPS 140-3 Validation 

43 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | TrueNAS SCALE remains free to the Community - Bluefin includes licensing options TrueNAS SCALE - Features and Support Packages High Avail. Enterprise FIPS Security Pro Support SaaS FIPS Security ● FIPS certification ● API ACLs ● Defense Industry High Availability ● Dual Controller ● Shared Storage Enterprise Support ● Gold/Silver/Bronze ● Phone and Online ● KMIP. Pro-active alerts ● Software-only option Pro Support ● Email support ● Software-only Q4 2022 

44 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Durability Performance Value API S3 Compatible Multiregion Globally Distributed Performance Up to 5,000 Mb/s Durability 11 Nines Privacy AES 256 Encryption Security Edge Delegated Costs 75% less that AWS Web 3.0 Architecture with globally distributed Erasure Coding TrueNAS acts as Client or Storage node Easy Sync, Backup, Archive services built into TrueNAS SCALE $ New initiative Integrated into SCALE (Bluefin) ● Provides storage durability ● Reduces data centre needs ● Increases data mobility Globally Distributed Storage Q4 2022 

45 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Futureproof Infrastructure with Open Source Economics 2023: True Data Freedom Enterprise Support File Block Object Apps Networked Applications and Storage (NAS) TrueNAS SCALE HA Systems Any System and Any Vendor Appliances Single Pane Management Unified Billing Clouds Servers JBODs Clusters VMs Containers Scalable Data Management Globally Distributed Storage SaaS SaaS SaaS SaaS Q4 2022 

46 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | | “FOCUS GROUP” + BONUS GUEST Is there an audience for different stories? 

47 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | What We Hope You Remember ● iX is different than our “big box” competitors ○ The company has grown to be a thriving medium sized company ○ TureNAS is the world’s most widely deployed storage software ○ Our community of ~250K users is powerful ● Our offerings are extensible without adding complexity ○ One user experience for environments from very small to very large ○ One support experience across hardware and software ○ One management experience across iX appliances and systems running open source ● The Open Storage Era has begun, and iX is part of its foundation 

48 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | Core Values that Make a Competitive Difference Think People before Profit Both free and paid users Treat customers like friends Employees are family Open Source Trailblazers Our path over 20yrs is 1 of a kind Paths of others did not scale We see the path becoming mainstream Bootstrapped Mindset Do more with less Make everything simple Leverage the community Pursue Kaizen Sustained evolution vs. revolution Small improvements add up over time A model that can live forever Same Product Maturity and Performance + Data Freedom Advantages iX is poised to emerge as a vendor of choice among Enterprises 

49 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | Focus Group Discussion | The Open Storage Era What is beyond the Plateau of Productivity? The Open Storage Era Hype Cycle for Storage and Data Protection Technologies, 2021 

50 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | Focus Group Discussion | Sustainability with Open Source “Upcycling”, extending the useful life of hardware 

51 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | Focus Group Discussion | Higher Purpose & Thinking People Before Profit Can a technology company operate differently and still be “Enterprise”? 

52 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | Bonus Guest - Milton Security 

53 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | *** Coming News *** (Under Embargo) ✓ Gartner Peer Insights 4.9 of 5.0 rating (Date: June 14th) ✓ TrueNAS SCALE 22.02 is Feature Complete (Date: June 21st) ✓ TrueCommand 2.2 (Date: June 21st) ✓ TrueNAS 13.0 U1 is ready for Production (Date: June 28th) ✓ Milton Security customer release (Date: TBD June / July) ✓ iX & Western Digital partnership release (Date: TBD June / July) 

54 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright © 2022 | TrueNAS Website TrueNAS Community Blog Case Studies TrueNAS Documentation iXsystems Website iXsystems History ZFS Primer Download TrueNAS CORE Download TrueNAS SCALE More Information Mario Blandini VP Marketing [email protected] +1 925 759-5537 Joe Austin iX PR Agency [email protected] 

55 iXsystems, Inc. | Copyright 2022© | | Brett Davis EVP Sales & Marketing [email protected] Morgan Littlewood SVP Products [email protected] Mario Blandini VP Marketing [email protected] June 7, 2022 IT Press Tour #44 Kris Moore SVP Engineering [email protected]