Apple gives Xsan file system a sequel
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In a world without Apple RAID hardware, one man stands agai... Apple is offering the first major upgrade to its Storage Area Network (SAN) file system today, while kicking its RAID storage hardware out into the cold.â¦
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Nexsan Technologies is set to unveil a storage array optimized for Apple Inc.'s Xserve computer server system.
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Blog: Sun says that Apple's forthcoming Leopard operating system will use the next-generation file system called ZFS
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com. Apple Computer Inc. has still not properly fixed the HFS+ filesystem named fork vulnerability discovered last week, according to the company that first noticed it, NetSec Inc.
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Last month, I talked about Time Machine, the revolutionary backup tool that will be built into Mac OS X 10.
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First a little background. I stopped using a Mac in 1997, as Apple was transitioning to the new operating system. I started using the Mac again as my primary OS in late 2005, a little more than two years ago. This is the first new version of the OS to come out since I switched back. Based on a tour of the new features, pretty late at the end of a long week, it's safe to say an OS is still just an OS, the purpose of the OS is to stay out of your way until you need it. Leopard may be prettier than the last version, I'm not sure it is or isn't. Not sure I'll use many of the new features. For people who hadn't used VNC before, "screen sharing" would certainly be a big new feature if they're working in a networked enviroment. And maybe the new backup code will fit into my routine. I have some ideas about that. (Maybe I'll just have one computer on my LAN that is backed up and copy things there if I want them backed up.) File sharing is more convenient in Leopard, the shared computers are listed in every Finder window, and this is good. FInding the disks that are available on each of these computers is one step easier too.  The Preferences applicaiton appears largely unchanged, except the Networking section where a lot of functionality seems to be missing. I have to look at this more closely. The Download stack is lost on me since I don't use Safari or Apple's mail app. I would find it useful if Firefox had a similar feature (but they kind of do, I can direct all downloads to a specific folder). All in all, changes to an OS aren't that important. The action is in the apps, and for me, just a couple of primary ones, the web browser and my integrated writing and programming environment. It's been quite a while since there have been meaningful improvements to either, and those improvements would end up meaning a lot more to me than improvements to the OS. There isn't much you can do, after the Mac has been around for 23 years, that hasn't already been done.  Net-net, my first impression of Leopard is that it isn't a big deal one way or the other.  PS: I wonder if the next version of the OS will be called Leonard, to honor Leonard Rosenthal, a famous Mac developer in the 80s and 90s.
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Features including Directory Services and Groups set up in Mac OS X Server will be respected by the virtual machines running on any given Xserve, making it easier for IT managers to configure multiple operating systems.
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Microsoft has unveiled a mid-range storage system that it said will make it quicker and easier to back-up and recover files from Windows servers.
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Current versions of FileMaker aren't compatible with the new Mac OS, even though Apple owns the company.
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NEW YORK, September 1 (New Ratings) - Microsoft (MSFT.NAS) reportedly intends to ship Longhorn, its next version of Windows operating system, without WinFS, the next-generation file system.
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Apple Computer admitted Monday it will miss its self-imposed for shipping its Xsan storage management software and that it will not be available until early next year.
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Blog: S.F. Apple fans finally get what they've been waiting for.
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Sun Microsystems's CEO Jonathan Schwartz said Apple's upcoming Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard would rely on a file system that his engineers created: ZFS.
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Bob Levitus writes for the Houston Chronicle, âI love when Apple introduces a product like the new AirPort Extreme Base Station, which is significantly faster and more capable than its predecessor and cheaper to bootâ
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Mac users who had hoped the latest update to Mac OS X would allow them to use Time Machine to back up their computers wirelessly to hard drives attached to their Airport Extreme base stations are out of luck -- at least for now.
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Microsoft&#39;s long-planned new file system is likely still many years away from being a part of the company&#39;s server operating system.
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MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday announced that it is shipping its Xsan Storage Area Network (SAN) file system, now available for US&#36;999 per client and per server. Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system that enables Mac OS X Server users to share files and volumes up to 16 TB (Terabytes) in size on a Fibre Channel network. Apple also announced an upgrade to its rack-mountable Xserve G5 file server, upping the top-end and "Cluster Node" configuration's processor speed to 2.3GHz and its system bus speed to 1.15GHz.