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Designed to make it easier for first time users to set up and quickly deploy a SAN, Xsan 2 is fully integrated with Leopard and Leopard Server, supporting features such as Spotlight to enable searching across the multiple SAN volumes that can be accessed with the new MultiSAN feature that allows a single workstation to simultaneously access several SANs. And Leopard Server features, such as iCal Server, Mail Server and

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The administration tools have been completely redesigned and as the software intelligently handles different data types, file sizes and usage scenarios for ideal performance, administrators have the option to pre-set volume workload settings for optimal streaming of all file types and sizes.

Unlike the original release, Xsan 2 has been qualified with third-party RAID storage hardware from Promise Technology in configurations optimised for Xsan, Mac OS X Server and Apple's professional applications.

Xsan 2 costs £699 (inc. VAT; 594.89 exc. VAT) per node and is qualified to work with Apple's Xserve server and Mac Pro desktop, and with Apple Fibre Channel PCI-X cards. It will also support qualified Fibre Channel switches from vendors such as Brocade, QLogic and Cisco. For more information go to apple.com/xsan.