Apple Customers Vent Over Ex-Xserve RAID
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Enterprise storage, Terabyte home on 20. Feb, 2008 | Comments
Apple’s business customers do not appear amused at the company’s exit from the enterprise storage space, but it was the quiet way that the company dumped the Xserve RAID product from their lineup that really irked. “XRAID” customers were left wondering whether they made the right choice, and if the company’s support for the [...]
Apple Revs Xsan and Kills Xserve RAID?
Posted by Stephen in Apple, Enterprise storage on 19. Feb, 2008 | Comments
Apple has an odd relationship with enterprise computing. Their Xserve server products are strong, as is Leopard Server, and they have an excellent SAN file system, Xsan, that they just updated. Yet, Mac OS X is the last major operating system with no volume manager (thanks to the antiquated HFS+), and it looks [...]
