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matthew said 12:31PM on 4-04-2009
If your in the market now, get the current one...Xserves are great servers and very easy to take apart and service!
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Greg said 11:52AM on 4-04-2009
Is it true they will outsource server business to IBM?
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Tony said 12:01PM on 4-04-2009
Not sure about the hardware, but I know for sure there's a server software refresh coming soon. I was talking with our Apple rep about an issue we were having, and was told "I can't say anything right now, but that's being addressed...soon. Big changes coming, that's all I can say at this time."
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Haro! said 1:53PM on 4-04-2009
I was under the impression that Apple no longer sold Xserves, or am I mistaking it with something else?
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jim said 2:24PM on 4-04-2009
Apple no longer sells xRaids.
Si said 5:54PM on 4-04-2009
Active Storage make a beautiful 3rd party XRAID to go with the Xserve. There's even a cool iPhone App in the works that can be used to monitor these arrays.
http://www.getactivestorage.co.uk/
Haro! said 9:15PM on 4-04-2009
Thanks for the correction jim!
Temple said 6:06PM on 4-04-2009
There selling the new CPU in the mac pro too. Did I miss it?
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Greenie said 8:56AM on 4-05-2009
I was waiting for a new Xserve, but when the new mini was released with 4GB RAM support I went with that instead. It's been plenty capable and costs quite a bit less in hardware and monthly hosting.
I think a lot of people out there would be good with a Mac mini server, but underestimate it based on size.
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David Frantz said 9:30AM on 4-06-2009
Yes the Mini can be an excellent little server if it fits the app. It isn't a big iron server though.
Now the question is, is Apple a successful big iron server company. I'd have to say no. That isn't easy to admit to but you don't here about a lit of server farms runnning Apple hardware. At least not for the types of work that you would suspect for large corporate type computing.
What I could see Apple doing is refocusing XServe on a slightly different market segment, that is the high performance computing segment. Think about these as OpenCL optimized servers. Thus one of Nvidas or ATIs OpenCL compliant GPU processors would be includeded in each machine. The question then becomes is this on board the motherboard or supplied as an expansion card? Either way Apple would need to dramatically reconfigure their 1U server and possibly offer up a thicker model for additional OpenCL compliant cards.
I know many will see this as a stretch but I believe Apple has huge opportunities here if they work OpenCL into the server line up. They have had some success selling servers to technical users and this capability would extend that demand. This biggest negative is that power demand would go up a bit. For many though the gains would offset the bill.
So what do you think guys, will Apple put forth an effort to go after the high performance computing server market? Will the wedge be OpenCL and it's applicability across all Apple hardware?
Dave
Server Rack Guy said 1:40PM on 4-10-2009
A new Xserve server would be a great for sales. The speed bumps in the past have always been welcome, but this would be a big bump. With a state of the art processor (based on rumors), a new operating system soon, some good RAID choices appearing (XRAID and others), many new server based programs (Final Cut, FileMaker, virtualization and more), etc....a new Xserve server would have a lot going for it.
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Server Rack Guy said 1:56PM on 4-10-2009
Sorry for what looks like an obvious (DUH) comment, I posted this before the new Xserve announcement, but did not confirm until now...good news, I was right :)