Cisco Chooses Mac OS X, Xserve, Xserve RAID, Xsan

[Mac Reporter]

Cisco System, the world's largest networking equipment manufacturer, chose Apple's Mac OS X, Xserve, Xserve RAID, and Xsan networking software for an e-mail archival system.

Digital Strata, an Agile-IT development firm in the Enterprise space, implemented the system for Cisco. Xsan is a DIY (Do It Yourself) grid software tool for putting together Mac OS X-based networks using Xserve and Xserve RAID. The system also used Cisco's MDS 900 Series SAN Switches.

'Best-of-Breed Solutions'

"We are harnessing Apple storage systems in best-of-breed solutions that offer twice the capacity at half the price compared with other enterprise storage vendors," said Dan Fischler, President of Digital Strata, in a statement.

"By combining Apple's latest enterprise software and hardware systems with our Agile-IT services, we can deliver the adaptive, extensible and flexible solutions that enable our customers get the most from their IT budgets," Fischler said.

Read more at MacNewsWorld.

[hypersomniac]

Hope we shift to Powerbooks as our standard issue soon. This is a sign of good things to come! :lol:

[hoho]

Originally posted by hypersomniac
Hope we shift to Powerbooks as our standard issue soon. This is a sign of good things to come! :lol:

Did you know that Cisco used to be a Mac shop before?

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[hypersomniac]

yes hoho, read that somewhere too. pero di ko na inabot, when i joined in 1998 they gave us Toshiba notebooks then shifted to Thinkpads a few years ago. Now that IBM have sold their PC business, some of us are speculating ... :lol:

[hoho]

Originally posted by hypersomniac
yes hoho, read that somewhere too. pero di ko na inabot, when i joined in 1998 they gave us Toshiba notebooks then shifted to Thinkpads a few years ago. Now that IBM have sold their PC business, some of us are speculating ... :lol:

True, although I'm not too particularly fond of the Thinkpad's performance. I rather like the size and weight of it. Although, I used my PowerBook for work a lot of times.

Sometimes, I just need to use the power of Unix, especially when I need the command line. I've been trying to find a way to get my PowerBook to work with the VPN. So far, I have the VPN Client, but I cannot install the password generator, and don't want to order the DES Card. Sayang.

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