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Apple ships Xsan Storage Area Network File System

Apple today announced it has started shipping Xsan, a high performance, enterprise class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at US$999 per client and per server. Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system for Mac OS X that enables organizations to consolidate storage resources and provide multiple computers with concurrent file-level read/write access to shared volumes over Fibre Channel.

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Apple delays Xsan software until 2005

Apple said today that it will miss the deadline for shipping its Xsan storage management software. Xsan, which will sell for US$999, was scheduled to be released before today. “Xsan will not ship this year; it will ship early next year,” Apple said in a statement. The company did not provide the reason for the delay. Xsan is “designed to further Apple’s position in the clustering market,” according to CNET News.com.

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Apple intros Xsan Storage Area Network system

Apple today introduced Xsan, a high-performance enterprise-class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at US$999. According to Apple, Xsan software combines “breakthrough performance with Apple’s legendary ease-of-use for customers who require scalable, high-speed access to centralized shared data for video workflow and storage consolidation, and is the perfect complement to Apple’s award-winning Xserve and Xserve RAID hardware.”

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