As expected, Apple today announced it has begun shipping Xsan, a high performance, enterprise class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at $999 per client and per server. Xsan combines ...

Business critical and network-attached storage (NAS) are terms rarely seen together. Storage area network (SAN)-based storage built on Fibre Channel infrastructure has dominated enterprise datacentres ...

As file sizes and data sets grow into the terabyte and petabyte range, users are looking for a method for storing, accessing and sharing the files among different hosts. That’s where clustered and ...

The authors develop a holistic framework for adaptively scheduling asynchronous requests in distributed file systems. The system is holistic in that it manages all resources, including network ...

LAS VEGAS -- April 27, 2004 -- Apple has now introduced Xsan, a high-performance, enterprise-class Storage Area Network (SAN) file system priced at $999 per system. "Apple's pro video and IT customers ...