“While the Xserve will be officially discontinued next week, Apple has updated the Xserve buy page to reflect an April shipping date,” Mark Gurman reports for 9 To 5 Mac.
“This could very well mean that the product’s final orders will only ship in April of this year, or could simply be an automated date based on the amount of units Apple has in stock,” Gurman reports.
Gurman reports, “We’ve heard that Apple has already begun recommending a product sold by ActiveStorage that will eventually replace Apple hardware XSAN.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Fred Mertz” and “Lynn W.”for the heads up.]
Apple knows the future is in the cloud so they are getting out of the big server business. For small installations a Mini or MacPro with SL Server will do the job. Sad, but it does make sense.
Isn’t XSAN just software??
xsan is a mac port of Stornext. the Apple XRAID has been dead for a long long time. Apple sells Promise on their site, but Activestorage units are way better and more reliable.
I could see Apple dropping their port of xsan and just letting storenext take over.. too bad that will double the price on it and
essentially kill it for all current users.
Chipping block? isn’t that what they make chipped beef on?
Nothing could be worse than being on the “chipping” block except being on the chopping block.
And no word yet of an Enterprise class replacement. I’d still like to see them do a deal with Oracle, which now owns Sun. They make some nice 1U rack-mounts, and it wouldn’t take but a few tweaks to enable them to run OS X Server. Oracle/Sun already have a privileged place in the back rooms, and those platforms are reportedly already installed in Apple’s NC facility.
“but Activestorage units are way better and more reliable”
And engineered by former Xserve RAID guys.
And it doesn’t have a manual that makes your head hurt.
Or a manual that makes your foot hurt if you accidentally drop it.
@84 Mac Guy
Yes, the future is the cloud, which means Apple should want to sell as many servers as possible, so that cloud is then run on Apple hardware/software.
Makes me wonder what is going into Apple’s data centers, especially the new one in NC? Are they Xserves? Or something else. Can’t imagine them not running their own OS. So if they are Xserves, what happens when they need to be replaced with newer machines? Does Apple have an internal server model they’ll produce just for themselves or what?
We’ve got two Xserves linked into two OWC 4TB 1U racks and an ultrafast Activestorage unit to keep our agencys macs served. It a beautiful looking rack and the Activestorage unit is a much better unit than the Promise.
I don’t know what we will do when we expand as we simply won’t use windows or Linux boxes and Mac minis or towers are hardly rackable. Shame for apple to kill Xserve. Maybe OWC will produce a rack version of future Mac pro hardware. There must be profit there. Hint.