When you think of apple Computer, the first thing that probably comes to mind is an iPod. But the PC vendor wants enterprises to think of something else — storage. Apple showcased its storage strategy at a recent press briefing, hoping to create awareness for its storage products. Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system for Mac OS X that lets organizations share files up to 16 TB on a high-speed Fibre Channel network. Up to 64 systems on the storage area network (SAN) can read and write to shared storage simultaneously. It runs on Xserve G5, a Unix-based 1U server with dual 64-bit G5 processors at speeds of up to 2.3GHz. Xserve RAID holds up to 14 hot-swappable Apple Drive Modules — 5.6TB of data — in a rack storage enclosure.
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