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Techgardens brings TrueNAS to its enterprise customers, and TrueNAS Scale HCI is built on the enterprise version of TrueNAS, making it an alternative for many public cloud situations, Poer said. TrueNAS Scale may not address everything that VMware can do, but for many of our customers, TrueNAS Scale will work without a need for a VMware license.” “Many of my customers use VMware as a hypervisor with TrueNAS, combining VMware for compute and HCI, TrueNAS for storage and Veeam for backup. “More importantly, it lets customers deploy a single-box HCI,” he said. TrueNAS Scale gives solution providers access to compute as well as storage in a single architecture that can now scale to hundreds of petabytes of capacity, Poer told CRN. It’s an exciting time to be an iXsystems TrueNAS partner, said Chris Poer, director of cloud and IT security at Techgardens, a Lake Success, N.Y.-based solution provider that has been working with the vendor for about eight years. “We have a very small number of customers who work with us directly, but we are a very channel-friendly company with 40 percent of the Fortune 500 businesses as our customers.”

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“We give customers the software for free, while customers pay partners for the turnkey TrueNAS HCI appliances,” he said.

IXsystems’ channel partners make money on selling the hardware HCI appliances, Blandini said. Customers can evaluate the technology and those who like it can ask for the appliance.”

To make money, we sell a fully supported hardware platform. “This gives potential customers an on-ramp to test hyperconverged infrastructure in their labs for free.

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“Our model lets customers have unlimited use of TrueNAS Scale free for as much as they want for as long as they want,” he said. 22 it has had to go through two more rounds even as it saw 20,000 downloads, Blandini said. The company released TrueNAS Scale after four rounds of Q&A testing, and since the open-source launch on Feb. “So we don’t see NAS as ‘network-attached storage.’ We see it as ‘network application storage.’” “The way we see the market, NAS now has all the protocols and supports the running of applications,” Blandini told CRN.

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22 to the open-source community, adds scale-out capability to the software to support SMB clustering as well as the ability to run Linux applications, with full support for Docker containers, Kubernetes, KVM and scale-out OpenZFS storage, said Mario Blandini, vice president of marketing for San Jose, Calif.-based iXsystems. TrueNAS Scale, which was released on Feb. IXsystems, the open-source developer of the TrueNAS network-attached software, Wednesday said it is now shipping its first hyperconverged infrastructure appliances based on the open-source version of TrueNAS Scale.