Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

It look slike the $999 price applies just to the XSan
filesystem software, which will run on os x boxes and
access an apple disk array.  I don't think $999 gets
you any hardware whatsoever.

--sam

--- GAmoore@... wrote:

> I don't think these will work, but I don't really
> know enough. But I am 
> imagining having a rack with multiple G5 nodes for
> $1000 each - about the price of 
> a UAD with a few of their extra plugs. If these will
> work for video and 
> graphics applications, I don't know why they can't
> work for music too - since video 
> is real time too.
> 
>
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> Apple ships Xsan, upgrades Xserve G5
> 
> By Peter Cohen MacCentral 
> 
>  Apple Computer Inc. on Tuesday announced that it is
> shipping its Xsan 
> Storage Area Network (SAN) file system, now
> available for US$999 per client and per 
> server. Xsan is a 64-bit cluster file system that
> enables Mac OS X (news - web 
> sites) 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.
> 
> 
>  Fibre channel-based SAN systems like Xsan are
> high-speed networking storage 
> solutions aimed at environments like video and film
> editing, broadcast, visual 
> effects and motion graphics creation. Xsan's
> applications extend beyond video 
> and film, as well -- Apple sees a market for Xsan in
> business, government, 
> education and high performance computing -- all
> environments that can benefit 
> from storage consolidation where features like
> metadata controller failover, 
> Fibre Channel multipathing, file-level locking and
> more sophisticated volume 
> management can be used effectively.
> 
>  Eric Zelenka, Apple's senior product line manager,
> server and storage so
> ftware, told MacCentral that Apple is also offering
> a new support program for Xsan 
> customers -- priced at $799 per system, the Xsan
> support plan offers users 24 
> hour a day, 7 day a week access to Apple's support
> staff with an unlimited 
> number of incidents. The support plan covers Xsan
> setup and configuration, and 
> can also help users with questions related to
> setting up their RAID, Fibre 
> Channel cards, switches, Mac OS X Server, and
> application software that will be 
> used with the Xsan system.
> 
>  Zelenka explained that Xsan's pricing enables users
> to configure each 
> Xsan-equipped system either as a metadata controller
> -- a file server system, 
> essentially -- or as a client. Zalenka said the $999
> per node price has already 
> garnered attention from a community used to paying
> more for such capability. Apple 
> has tested Xsan configurations with up to 64 users
> accessing video streams 
> from a single storage volume.
> 


		
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