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Active Storage reportedly closing its doors

by Michael Jones (Jan 23rd, 2013)

For those who deal with Macs in the enterprise, you may be saddened by the surfacing news that Active Storage is shutting down. Over the last four years, the company has unveiled an array (pardon the pun) of Mac-centric storage solutions, including controllers intended to bridge the gap left by ...

Next-generation Mac Pro rumored to feature rack mount, stackable drives

by Steven Sande (Apr 21st, 2011)

If a rumor posted on 9 to 5 Mac has any validity, the Mac Pro may be the next member of the Apple family to receive an updated design. The top-of-the-line Mac Pro has been somewhat neglected in the design department, as the current design debuted with the Power Mac G5 in June of 2003. Since ...

Xsan sites gain options as Active Storage steps in with new metadata controller

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 31st, 2011)

So long, Xserve. At the end of the day (January 31), you will be leaving the product sales list after serving the Mac community faithfully for nearly nine years. But today Active Storage introduced ActiveSAN, a high-performance metadata controller for Xsan and StorNext networks, intending to pick ...

Final Xserve orders won't reach customers for two months

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 28th, 2011)

With the Xserve's end of life arriving in just three days, the Apple Store is listing both the Quad-Core and 8-Core Xserves as shipping in April. So, if you've been wondering whether or not to pull the trigger on an Xserve purchase, now is the time to do so. 160 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB drive modules ...

Final Cut updates due in March or April, Steve Jobs still sour on Blu-ray

by Mike Schramm (Jan 3rd, 2011)

Hardmac has kicked off the new year with some more rumors about Final Cut Studio being updated. We already knew (since the app wasn't updated last September) that Final Cut Studio has been due for some streamlining, and Hardmac says that, indeed, there are multiple beta versions running around. ...

2010 in review: Rise of iOS

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Dec 31st, 2010)

Here, in no particular order, are some of the top stories we saw in 2010. The year was packed with Apple announcements, some planned and one unplanned. The real standout this year was iOS coming into its own. This year's WWDC was all about iOS, for example. The Apple TV now runs iOS. iOS 4.2 ...

Xserve no longer offers SSD option

by Dave Caolo (Dec 14th, 2010)

As the Xserve approaches its end-of-life, Apple has eliminated the SSD build-to-order option. Instead, you'll have to choose either a 160GB, 1TB or 2TB serial ATA ADM drive at 7200-rpm to fill each of its three bays. AppleInsider and 9to5 both note that SSD promotional copy was in place this ...

Enterprise Desktop Alliance conducts survey on the Xserve's end

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 10th, 2010)

Have you deployed the Xserve in your enterprise over the past several years? With the upcoming demise of Apple's rack mounted computer system, the Enterprise Desktop Alliance (EDA) is conducting a survey to gauge what Xserve users will do going forward. The EDA normally helps IT departments ...

Apple exec posts, retracts enterprise information

by Mike Schramm (Nov 8th, 2010)

We're not sure if this is good news or bad news for you Xserve enthusiasts, but given the furor over Apple discontinuing the server line, any news is probably worth hearing. Apple server product marketing manager Eric Zelenka reportedly posted a message on the Xsanity message boards saying that the ...

Steve Jobs says hardly anyone was buying the Xserve

by Steven Sande (Nov 8th, 2010)

While corporate, scientific, entertainment industry, and university buyers of the soon-to-be-dead Xserve are bemoaning the loss of the rack-mounted powerhouse, Steve Jobs has reportedly told a French Xserve customer "hardly anyone was buying them." A reader of the French MacGeneration website ...

Xserve, we hardly knew ye: a requiem tonight at 10p ET on the Talkcast

by Michael Rose (Nov 7th, 2010)

Friday's news hasn't really sunk in yet for most Mac admins and server-lovers, but it's true: the Xserve is heading to that great rackmount in the sky. Whether you're deeply bereft or couldn't care less, you're welcome to join us tonight on the TUAW Talkcast. We'll be kicking things off at 10pm ...

Xserve End Of Life: Some opinions and ideas about Apple's server strategy

by Steven Sande (Nov 5th, 2010)

As an Apple Consultants Network member who has installed his share of Apple Xserves, I have mixed emotions about Apple's decision today to pull the plug on the only "real" server that they've been selling. On the one hand, Apple hasn't been selling a lot of the pricey pizza boxes to big business, ...

Mac Pro server config added to product lineup

by Dave Caolo (Nov 5th, 2010)

Shortly after announcing the end of the Xserve, Apple has added Mac Pro server configuration in its place. The new machine features a single 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Xeon 'Nehalem' processor, 8GB (4 x 2GB) of DDR3 ECC SDRAM, a pair of 1TB (7200RPM) hard drives, one 18x SuperDrive and ATI's Radeon HD ...

Apple's Xserve hits end of life, order yours before Jan, 31

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 5th, 2010)

Farewell, Xserve. While the G5 version was once the server behind one of the world's fastest parallel supercomputers, Apple's powerful but slow-selling line of rack-mount servers has now reached the end of its life cycle and will no longer be offered after January 31, 2011. As an ...

Parallels gets down to bare metal with new server software

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 25th, 2010)

Parallels has announced a new version of Parallels Server for Mac called the Mac Bare Metal Edition. It's optimized to provide better performance for virtual machines running on an Xserve, and allows multiple, isolated virtual machines to run simultaneously on the same server. Using "hypervisor" ...