Open source storage and data management vendor iXsystems reckons it’s on route to double its turnover to $200m within 18 months, thanks to its burgeoning channel.
The channel-first San Jose-headquartered firm told this week’s IT Press Tour of Silicon Valley and Denver – which IT Europa is attending – that it is successfully passing on new major customers to channel partners, that are selling their additional services around its storage systems, including networking, compute and security.
The company’s VP of marketing Mario Blandini (pictured), who joined the firm last December from data storage supplier Tintri, said: “Not many people think that an open source storage company would have an active and growing partner programme, but we do.”
He added: “We are the fastest-growing systems company in our space, and we are bringing open source economics to storage and data management through successful technology partnerships with the likes of Intel, Supermicro, Western Digital and others.”
The firm offers its free TrueNAS storage software, and TrueNAS Enterprise and TrueNAS Scale appliances, with planned upgrades set to be announced later this month.
TrueNAS Scale is a Linux-based hyperconverged version of the TrueNAS platform, and the company sees great opportunities for the offering as firms increasingly turn to a hybrid cloud data environment, in response to the rapidly growing data volumes they are now handling.
The vendor is currently developing a globally distributed storage system, which it says resembles AWS’ widely adopted S3 system, but which costs “75% less”.
The company is also involved in a re-branding exercise, and will soon simply be known as ‘iX’.
