[nycbug-talk] Introduction to XSAN at the Apple SoHo Store

[Pete Wright]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 07:53:10AM -0500, Ken Court wrote:
> pete 
> 
> 
> > what's interesting is when we were trying to get an 
> > XRAID from apple they didn't give us the time of day 
> > 
>  
> we now carry these in stock at the SoHo retail store along with fabric, 
> switches, and even fibred LTO tape drives 
> 
> 
> > while I'm sure it's possible (anything is) i would not bet the 
> > company data 
> > on it just yet, but that goes for any new new tech. 
> > 
>  
> can I have have an Lead Apple Engineer w/ a lot of full Xsan deploys 
> already done call you. 
> 

Sorry I didn't intend for this to end up being a flame.  When I was working 
for Click3X in NYC I was building a new HD suite based on Apple tech 
(a G5 HD suite using Final Cut and Shake).  We were attempting
to see if it was feasable replace one of our three Flame suites with this
setup.  At the time I was hoping to build a relationship between Apple
and Click, but it did not seem that anyone I spoke with at Apple took me seriously.
In the end we fell back on Tekserve, which worked more or less.  I'm now working for
Sony Imageworks in LA so it's all a moot point now.  I have let the current
engineers at Click3X know abou this demo though and they will hopefully be 
attending.

-pete

> k 
>  
> 
> *************** 
> Ken Court 
> Business Technical Coordinator 
> Apple Computer, SoHo 
> Mon - Fri   10 - 7 
> Phone   212.226.3126 x 642 
> FAX       212.965.9118 
> http://www.apple.com/xsan/videoworkflow.html 
> http://www.apple.com/server/macosx/open_directory.html 
> - 
>  
> On Jan 18, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Pete Wright wrote: 
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 08:21:51PM -0500, G. Rosamond  
> > 
> > > 
> > > >  
> > > > http://www.apple.com/retail/soho/week/20050102.html 
> > > > 
> > > > Best Regards, 
> > > > Steve 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > >  
> > > Fancy. . . 
> > > 
> > > Pete, you flying back here for this?  Weren't you trying to get 
> > > to one  
> > > of these? 
> > > 
> > > g 
> > > 
> >  
> > yea click3x got one of these for better or worse (The XRAID).  they 
> > do look nice... 
> > altho the management utilites kinda are lacking and obviously we 
> > were 
> > forced to use HFS+...ouch.  from a hardware perspective the cases 
> > are pretty 
> > nice, altho I still am not convinced in with SATA tech. yet.  i 
> > followed the  
> > developments of the XSan FS pretty closely, and it does look 
> > interesting.   
> > altho in hindsight i'd probably not go with one of these guy's 
> > again,  
> > even with the XSan FS.  what's interesting is when we were trying 
> > to get an 
> > XRAID from apple they didn't give us the time of day...and now here 
> > they are  
> > trying to push this as a video solution.  as far as the enterprise 
> > buzz word... 
> > while I'm sure it's possible (anything is) i would not bet the 
> > company data 
> > on it just yet, but that goes for any new new tech. 
> > 
> > 
> > -p 
> > 
> > --  
> > ~~oO00Oo~~ 
> > Peter Wright 
> > pete at nomadlogic.org 
> > www.nomadlogic.org/~pete 
> > 917.415.9866 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

-- 
~~oO00Oo~~
Peter Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org
www.nomadlogic.org/~pete
917.415.9866