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One Year of TrueNAS SCALE 25.10 Goldeye in Production: Our Honest Review Before the 27 Upgrade
One year of TrueNAS 25.10 in production across twenty customer sites: what ran smoothly, where we hit snags, how enterprise support performed, and how we prepare for the 27 upgrade.
All Saints' Day and Holiday Week: IT On-Call in the Mid-Market Without Surprises
All Saints', Repentance Day, first Advent — planning IT on-call for the German holiday weeks: monitoring, SMS alerting, duty roster, supplier reach, backup windows. A practical mid-market playbook.
Monthly Check October 2026: TrueNAS 27, Proxmox Plugin Early Adopter and a New DATAZONE Vehicle
IT news October 2026: TrueNAS 27 instead of 26, the official Proxmox plugin in early-adopter rollout, cloud TCO, immutable backups and a second Tesla in the fleet.
Storage market 2026: the four trends that actually stuck this year
Year-end review of the enterprise storage market 2026: NVMe/TCP mainstream, immutable backups as baseline, cloud repatriation, and TrueNAS 27 ending the YY.MM scheme.
Switching to DATAZONE: how a friction-free IT provider handover runs in eight weeks
Switching IT providers without downtime: our eight-week playbook covering audit, handover, documentation, parallel operation, cut-over and aftercare.
TrueNAS WebShare vs. Nextcloud: When Browser Access to the Dataset Is Enough
TrueNAS WebShare or Nextcloud? Browser file sharing for external partners vs. full collaboration with Office Online and mobile apps — a decision guide for small and midsize businesses.
ZFS Quotas and Reservations in TrueNAS: Fairly Dividing Pool Space Across Departments
How to use ZFS quotas and reservations in TrueNAS: dataset limits for departments, refquota vs quota, user quotas, monitoring, and GUI vs CLI from real-world practice.
TrueNAS Cloud Sync to AWS S3, Backblaze B2 and Wasabi: when the hyperscaler detour is worth it
TrueNAS Cloud Sync to AWS S3, Backblaze B2 and Wasabi: configuration, encryption, egress cost and restore time – when hyperscaler, when immutable, when classic rsync.
Proxmox SDN with VXLAN Overlay: Setting Up Multi-Tenant Networks Cleanly
Proxmox SDN VXLAN in practice: Zone, VNet, Subnet in PVE 9, overlay instead of VLAN, multi-tenant separation and EVPN basics with sample configuration.
Winter in the Server Room: The Annual Check for Cooling, Power, UPS and Alerting
Server room winter check for year-end: AC service, UPS battery test, smoke detectors, door contacts, alert escalation chains explained from field practice.
IT in the Trades: How a 50-Employee SMB Runs Proxmox and TrueNAS in Production
Anonymised reference case: a mid-sized trades business with 50 employees, project drawings, DATEV accounting and mobile site managers on Proxmox and TrueNAS.
TrueNAS SMB Security: AES-128/256, SMB3 Signing, and What Admins in SMB Shops Should Change Now
TrueNAS SMB security done right: disable SMB1, enforce SMB3 signing, enable AES-128/256-GCM, and keep clean audit logs — a practical guide for small and midsize shops.
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