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iXsystems
Purpose
iX is an Open Source pioneer and the company behind TrueNAS, the world's most deployed storage software. Relied upon by millions in over 200 countries, TrueNAS is an award-winning universal data platform used by a majority of Fortune 500 companies. The platform harnesses the power of the legendary ZFS file system to provide scale-up or scale-out unified storage with the reliability and performance demanded by virtualization, backup, and many other data-heavy workloads. As an alternative to legacy storage systems that are proprietary, restrictive, and often overpriced, TrueNAS helps organizations modernize how they store and protect data by leveraging open storage to simplify operations and drastically reduce cost.
Vision
A "Zettabyte" of Data Freedom: This is the original goal for open source ZFS technology, and TrueNAS backed by iXsystems is the most deployed storage software worldwide, and the first product to
Mission
To spread the benefits of True Data Freedom to the world. TrueNAS is a Digital Public Good, creating billions in value every year for organizations who otherwise would not protect their data without a no-cost open source option.
Additional Culture Details
iXsystems is a purpose-first company that thinks people before profit. We provide our technology for free, and think of those users as customers. Unlike most every technology company, we can focus only on making users and customers successful rather than selling to continue growing the company, which is very rewarding.
Values
- Think people before profit
- - Clients, Community, Co-workers, Colleagues…they’re all “customers”. We are accountable to them all.
- Approach everything first through the eyes of the customer
- We give to receive: We earn business through the power of reciprocity.
- We treat our customers and users like friends and our employees like family
- A customer or user’s problem is EVERYONE’s problem
- We function on Integrity: doing the right thing even when no one is watching
- We reward merit, not politics