There's plenty of video and photo professionals. Small shops don't need Xsan and big shops can use macs. There's no reason you can't have terabytes of enterprise storage and have macs. Your San just isn't going to be Apple. And probably not your file server-- if you have one, since EMC, NetApp, etc have been doing so well merging SAN and NAS.
I trust Apple to continue to serve the desktop. I trust them to continue to maintain the server version of their software in a way that has some neat features for real small offices that can live with a Mini or MacPro as a rudimentary server. In the mean time, my Macs can and do connect to Enterprise resources. I would like to see better iSCSI support. > Absolutely, no doubt, and crystal clear. But there is fall out, as a result > of this, for Apple's past, present, and future customers. The biggest single > fallout is trust. I increasingly do not trust Apple on the desktop. Not just > enterprise, but in general. Here is why. > > Example 1: XSan is actually a very cool. But because Apple is out of > enterprise, do I trust that Xsan will be in 10.8? No. I don't. Because Apple > has a track record of doing exactly what this thread primarily is complaining > about which is technology abandonment, leaving users with major hardware, > workflow and time investments that get dumped with no clear migration. > Implementing XSan now is risky because of this. Enterprise almost certainly > would not risk it, so why should a company with a 2-6 hd video studio invest? > The very question being asked here isn't the merit of XSan, vs another > solution, which is what it should be. The question is trusting Apple. > > Example 2: After giving the cold shoulder to design and print markets, Apple > went after photographers. Photographers unwittingly have enterprise level > storage requirements. But they do not have enterprise storage budgets, nor > are they enterprise class in most any other way. Average prosumer > photographers will have storage in up to the 4TB realm, much of which is on > multiple HDDs. More serious professionals are typically in the 20-30TB > range, for one shooting photographer. Such storage requirements, if they were > emails, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, would represent a company on > the small side of 100 employees, up to maybe 1000 employees. > > Yet neither a linux hobbyist nor an enterprise business using EL has to > contend with a substantive lack of logical volume management that > photographers have to put up with on Mac OS X. Or a substantive lack of file > system resilience. Truly incredibly inappropriate primary data storage is > common place for Mac OS users who have storage needs beyond a single disk > because of this. > > Chris Murphy > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
