Tuesday, May 14, 2002 |
10:08 - Yeah, baby!
http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/0205/14.server.php
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Here's full live coverage of the press event courtesy of MacCentral.
Looks like I was right about the thin-client administration tool:
New software: Server Monitor -- this is how you manage the hardware.
OS X Server and Xserve provide a completely headless operation, SMP optimization, UPS support, 2-terabyte file system support, Net-SNMP and MIB II, for OS X clients. Management tools include Server Admin and Server Monitor, Unlimited clients (windows server requires expensive server licenses).
There's a security lock, there's "no top to take off" (it just "slides out like a drawer"), SMART drive monitoring (so it can do predictive failure notifications), and the FireWire and USB and CD-ROM can be locked out.
The drives are ATA because "they're just as fast as SCSI and they offer real benefits in term of largest capacities". Yeah, and I bet it saves a ton on the bottom line, too. And ATA is plenty fast for most server stuff, too, especially if you keep simultaneous data sources on different spindles (though that's not in the cards for symmetric RAID). This is an interesting decision; I hope they don't get dinged for it.
Oh, and it's 1U. Hot damn!
Customers want to do:
- file and print
- web and email
- database
- QuickTime streaming
- Computational (for example, Blast)
What they want from Apple:
- Dedicated server platform
- They want it to be rack-mounted
- They want a lot of storage flexibility
- They want serviceability
- And they have to be able to manage these things remotely, so they want great remote management.
Looks like this could well be a winner...
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