Brett Davis is an open source evangelist that also oversees Marketing & Sales for iXsystems and the world's most popular open source storage project: TrueNAS Open Storage (formerly FreeNAS). Passionate about open source, Brett has been a contributor to various communities (FreeBSD, PC-BSD, TrueOS) since the early 2000s.
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10 years of lessons, successes, and failures from a COSS business based on the world's most popular Software-Defined Storage: FreeNAS.
Brett’s introduction and session topic: 10 years of open core with FreeNAS and TrueNAS - 0:00
Presentation Agenda - 1:02
Who is iXsystems? - 1:39
Walking through FreeNAS. (World’s first and #1 software defined storage.) - 3:08
FreeNAS by the Numbers - 4:41
How did this all get started? Open Source in the company DNA - 5:34
The History of iXsystems, FreeNAS, and TrueNAS, starting in 2002 - 6:20
Adopting the FreeNAS project in 2009, and Sun Microsystems open-sourced ZFS - 7:42
Pivoting to appliances and FreeNAS Pro, rebranding FreeNAS Pro as TrueNAS, unifying FreeNAS and TrueNAS - 10:15
Walking through the rebrand and challenge of managing two branches (FreeNAS and TrueNAS) - 12:20
Showing the product line evolution with the rebrand - 16:26
TrueNAS GTM Strategy integrates Community and Partners - 17:30
TrueNAS delivers storage freedom to thousands of organizations with a “channel-first” GTM Strategy. Walking through clients and Channel Partners, as well as use cases - 18:48
New Edition: TrueNAS Scale - 19:47
TrueNAS Scale Architecture 2021 - 21:14
TrueNAS Full Spectrum Product Line - 22:47
TrueNAS enables a ZFS Hybrid Cloud - 24:26
Visit TrueNAS.com for more info (new home for all things TrueNAS) - 25:29
Five Open Core Lessons (Learned the Hard Way) - 25:42
1. Foster a warm and welcoming community -26:05
2. Community transparency wins the day - 27:57
3. Avoid “Second System Syndrome” at all costs - 28:31
4. Own your mistakes. Never run from them. - 30:16
5. Once you give it away, you can’t take it back. - 31:21
Concluding remarks, contacts, and job openings (truenas.com, ixsystems.com) - 32:08
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