News Summary:
On March 11, 2026, iXsystems announced TrueNAS Connect, a new bridge designed to provide access to TrueNAS enterprise storage features without requiring an investment in the company's hardware. This development follows the previous year's unification of TrueNAS's SCALE and CORE offerings, consolidating its enterprise storage efforts around a Linux base, moving from its earlier FreeBSD foundation. Earlier, on February 18, the enterprise storage market saw Linux becoming central to most file-server deployments, with the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market growing significantly as organizations balance on-premise and cloud solutions. Two days prior, on February 16, HexOS, an operating system for NAS devices built on the TrueNAS foundation, emerged with a stated goal of enhancing user experience, available for a fee. Previously, on February 4, iXsystems shared its plans for TrueNAS 26, which is slated to enter beta in April and will focus on utilizing the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel paired with OpenZFS 2.4, following the release of TrueNAS 25.10. In January, specifically on January 8, TrueNAS introduced WebShare, an enterprise-grade solution for file sharing accessible directly from a web browser, offering an alternative to traditional Samba or NFS usage.
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