With Apple’s announcement that XSAN is now bundled as standard with OSX Lion Server; it appears that we are heading towards a world whether Scale Out Storage is just going to be a tick box on the feature list.
Although the announcement is fairly and squarely aimed at the Creative Markets, we are seeing technologies from that vertical and the HPC vertical becoming more and more commonly utilised as end-users in different verticals have to process more and larger data-sets.
Of course, XSAN is based on Stornext from Quantum; NetApp are Quantum partners, I’m sure this announcement has made the Apple fans in NetApp very happy.
We live in some interesting times.
What’s scale out about Xsan? Isn’t that LUN sitting behind one controller?
Xsan is rebranded Stornext…Stornext is a cluster file-system. It definitely qualifies as Scale Out.