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Jun 22, 2006 8:02 AM, By Dan Ochiva

Max out Mac's Xsan

While Final Cut Pro continues to garner an enthusiastic following, Apple's Xsan storage area network has been slower to catch on. (Xsan virtualizes Apple's Xserve RAID arrays so that they appear as a single pool of storage.) Some companies, including high-end storage supplier Exavio, claim that the Xsan infrastructure itself is the bottleneck.

At NAB 2006, Exavio offered up one solution: Its ExaMax 9000 I/O accelerator — said to improve system throughput by more than 4X — sports a scalable dynamic cache that helps to minimize the typically problematic storage random-seek and concurrent-access issues. At the show, Exavio demo'd a realtime, uncompressed HD workflow for a mix of Power Macs, along with a multi-stream PC-based 2K digital intermediate workflow running on its accelerated SAN. www.exavio.com

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