Enterprise SAN for Mac OS X Server, Part 1
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Columnist Yuval Kossovsky offers a primer on storage-area networks in Part 1 of this two-part series, and then follows up with a piece on how to set up a SAN for Mac OS X.
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In Part 1 of this two-parter, we share tips and tricks for working with NetBoot, which is meant to allow Mac clients to start up and run applications using a server-based image.
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Cisco's Linksys division introduced its first network-attached storage and stackable switches for SMBs. The NAS products are available with an optional redundant power supply unit to keep the NAS units running in case of a power outage, as well as standard on-disk encryption.
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The data center fabric will at a minimum bring together network, server, and storage administrators. Are you ready? Can you handle it?
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Hitachi has released its first all Serial ATA array and has bundled it with switches and network interface cards to create a preconfigured low-to-midrange SAN that competes with products from EMC and IBM.
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But keeps pushing SAN virtualisation Attempts to converge data networking and storage networking on a single 10Gig physical base have failed, according to a veep at at SAN technology supplier Emulex.â¦
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(Source: Network Appliance)  Because of the increasing importance of Microsoft&reg; Exchange in the enterprise, Exchange data management, data protection, disaster recovery, and availability are of increasing concern. A NetApp IP SAN solution replaces existing DAS or legacy Fibre Channel storage to streamline and automate Exchange data management tasks while providing a flexible infrastructure that eliminates downtime, decreases manpower and other costs, and increases data protection.
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Continuing the thread on commoditization of scalable server software, the third installment. Yesterday, Matt Tucker from the OpenFire community, said: "I'm not sure that S3 magically kills off the scaling priests. It certainly makes it easy to turn on more storage resources, but writing an application to scale efficiently across multiple virtual machines is no easy task." To which I responded... It won't make scaling obsolete, but what it does do is commodify it. Right now I can't buy a Jabber server that scales without also hiring someone who will scale it for me. But in a few years I should be able to buy a Jabber server that, when it needs more CPUs, just asks for them all transparently to the user, the same way my word processor asks the OS for more memory today. I remember word processors that didn't do memory management, you got a 64K buffer and that's it. One document. When you filled it up, you started another. Technology will go forward and scaling won't be a black art, it'll be something built into the software you license.
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(Source: LeftHand Networks)  Combine LeftHand SAN/iQ clustering software with the world's top selling enterprise server platforms like the HP DL380 to create a cost-effective, yet powerful iSCSI SAN.
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Product will allow a server to run multiple operating systems, or multiple copies of the same operating system at a single time
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A company whose virtualization software lets Windows programs run on Mac OS X will soon make the move to the more demanding server market.
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Dual-layer disc to smooth hi-def format adoption
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Apple today announced a major upgrade to Xsan, its enterprise-class storage area network (SAN) file system for Mac OS X. Xsan 2 represents the first upgrade since the original product was released in 2005.
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InfoWorld - Rackable Systems has added to its line of NAS solutions with its new S3116-NAS server appliance. The new NAS server is designed for datacenters looking for a high-performance SATA system at an affordable price, according to Geoffrey Noer, senior director of storage products at Rackable Systems. &#8220;Companies using expensive Fibre Channel-based storage can migrate older projects to a lower-cost Rackable Systems NAS,&#8221; Noer said. Other uses include disk-based backup, small and medium business workgroups, and applications such as seismic processing and video rendering, he said.
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New Apple Xserve servers come with dual Intel Quad-Core Xeon CPUs and an unlimited client licence for the late3st Mac OS X Server.
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A wave of low-priced SANs, many bundled with preconfigured switches and host bus adapters, is bringing easy-to-install storage that can cut management costs by up to 70% compared with the cost of storage directly attached to each server. But they're not for everyone.
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Parallels Server is an enterprise version of the software that lets x86-based hardware, such as Apple Macs, run the Windows OS.