> > You critiqued the presentation of the enterprise subject in general, with the > statement that Apple doesn't care about enterprise.
Critique isn't the word I used. Mentioned. > > Once enterprise solutions were off the table and a non-enterprise example was > provided, you proceeded to defend Apple's lack of storage management, by > saying people can solve their storage problems with enterprise SANs. Defend? No. There are tons of storage vendors. Apple isn't one. Few can be. That's why lh, equallogic, Compellent and 3par have all been acquired in the past few years. > I'm not talking about big companies. I'm not talking about hundreds of > terabytes. You are basically proposing a SAN for a single photographer or a > single video workstation. And you're right, they would need a SAN on Mac OS > because Mac OS lacks good storage management that exists for FREE to any Tom, > Dick and Harry who downloads most any linux distribution because lvm is used > by default in most of them. But Apple doesn't have that functionality. Tons of NAS options too. Come on, I have 6tb and that's just because I have too many movies and tv shows. Iomega, Promise and dozens of other SoHo NAS devices are out there with 4-8 bays. On the higher end EMC has stuff at 10k with SAN, NAS and more, expandable to crazy levels of storage. >> Not asking for it. Not expecting it. I'm suggesting they are way behind when >> it comes to storage management and file systems. They werent ready for prime time for years with dtp after os x shipped too according to some. They are ahead right where it counts: margin and increasing market share. They may not play in the storage market, but it hasn't slowed them down. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
