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Article: SGI HETEROGENEOUS SAN SUPPORTS MAC OS X.
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- Networks Update
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Silicon Graphics (NYSE:SGI) has debuted a heterogeneous Storage Area Network (SAN) that fully supports Mac OS X: SGI InfiniteStorage Shared Filesystem CXFS. Mac OS X is used extensively in film studios, post production and visual effects houses, broadcast stations and digital publishing facilities. But until now these Mac clients were not able to take full advantage of the benefits of a shared filesystem approach to SANs -- saving time and storage capacity by not having to copy files and move data. This meant that media studios and facilities could not include Macs in the way most of the industry works, or wants to work -- using a shared-file collaborative workflow between ...