Apple Senior Manager Eric Zelenka writes ‘Apple is dedicated to Servers’, then deletes
An interesting little exchange of words went down at the XSanity forums this weekend. After Friday’s news of the death of the Xserve, Eric Zelenka, Apple Senior Worldwide Product Marketing Manager for server, storage, and management products, chimed in with something to rest everyone’s beating hearts. Apple remains committed to the development of server products,...
Xserve, we hardly knew ye: a requiem tonight at 10p ET on the Talkcast
Friday's news hasn't really sunk in yet for most Mac admins and server-lovers, but it's true: the Xserve is heading to that great rackmount in the sky. Whether you're deeply bereft or couldn't care less, you're welcome to join us tonight on the TUAW Ta...
Review: Kanex MDPC30 Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adapter
Apple adapter foreground, Kanex in the back. If you are an Apple customer who’ve had a 30-inch display since the time Apple announced they’d be going from DVI adapters to Mini DisplayPort, you’ve probably gone through the wringer like me. Display flicker Issues with Apple’s adapter That link is to the timeline up until last...
Xserve Is Dead…Now What?
Xserve Is Dead…Now What? The Mac Pro is a great box, but it is not designed to be a server. That matters. The Mac Pro, in trying to equal the Xserve takes up 12 times the space, uses more power, and ends up costing you twice as much if you don’t want a single component...
Xserve survival FAQ, Apple mobile payments plan
COMPUTERWORLD: Strange days, on the one hand you see Apple discontinue its main enterprise product (the Xserve) in the same week as we see the company’s enterprise credentials climb a notch or two, and we also learn the company’s looking to mobile payment solutions in order to bring people without credit cards inside its future...
Mac Pro server config added to product lineup
Shortly after announcing the end of the Xserve, Apple has added Mac Pro server configuration in its place. The new machine features a single 2.8GHz quad-core Intel Xeon 'Nehalem' processor, 8GB (4 x 2GB) of DDR3 ECC SDRAM, a pair of 1TB (7200RPM) hard ...
Yet more enterprise iLove
Yet more Apple moves in corporate America, where the iPhone and iPad are gaining more traction than the actually pretty good Xserve ever did — it seems Bank of America and Citigroup are considering whether to let employees use the Apple Inc. phone as an alternative to Research In Motion Ltd.’s BlackBerry for corporate e-mail....
Apple sending Xserve to giant server farm in the sky
After more than eight years on the market, Apple is euthanizing the Xserve. On January 31, 2011, Apple will stop selling the Mac server hardware, though support will continue for the three companies that have...
Apple adds Mac Pro Server to its lineup
Well, Apple didn’t take long to replace its Xserve today. Noting the change in its Xserve transition documents (PDF), we headed over to the Apple Store and lo and behold, there is a new Mac Pro Server option that fits nicely where the Xserve now does. It ships within a month and can be configured with...
Apple’s Xserve hits end of life, order yours before Jan, 31
Farewell, Xserve. While the G5 version was once the server behind one of the world's fastest parallel supercomputers, Apple's powerful but slow-selling line of rack-mount servers has now reached the end of its life cycle and will no longer be offere...
Apple kills the Xserve, is Lion Server an endangered species?
Wow. As of January 31st, the Xserve will be no more. After almost a decade (it was introduced in 2002), Apple will no longer have a rack mounable server product unless you consider things like MacMini Colo a rack mountable solution. The Enterprise business really never took off for Apple and besides some brief notoriety...
Gartner report tells corporations to get moving on the iPad
In a private report to clients, the Gartner research firm is urging CEOs to clear any obstacles preventing IT departments from taking advantage of the iPad.
Stephen Prentice, a VP and Gartner fellow, said in the report: "It is not usually the role of t...
