Xsan?

By
jeff
on April 18, 2004 5:25 PM | | Comments (5)

Today, Apple announced a bunch of software upgrades and new software including Xsan.

xsan box

I'm not really clear on what it does, but it has a cool box.

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5 Comments

By The Valrus on April 18, 2004 9:27 PM

Boy, good thing I bookmarked your blog so I could read fascinating content like this.

You dick basket!

By Jeff on April 18, 2004 9:48 PM

I hate you.

By steve on April 18, 2004 9:49 PM

Hey Jeff. XSan is an example of what's called a "storage area network" - a way of letting multiple computers access files simultaneously on shared disks over Fibre Channel. You can have a whole whack of Mac OS X machines all connected via high-speed Fibre Channel links to a whole mess of disks. It's a way to give network managers great flexibility in how they connect a bunch of disks to a bunch of computers.

Not quite a consumer product, but a very affordable and easy-to-use enterprise-class SAN solution.

By Jeff on April 18, 2004 10:25 PM

Thanks for the information, Steve. It sounds pretty interesting. It's nice to see that Apple is getting serious about the enterprise market.

By Guinevere on April 23, 2004 2:40 PM

I agree, it DOES have a nice box :D