Apple Trademarks 'XSAN'

Or Xsan or xSan. Trademarked on March 10. Description is for "computer hardware and software." Is this something that is already being used? Or have I finally found new trademark that nobody else has? "Computer hardware and software" makes it sound like it has been announced yet.

Hopefully it's the long-awaited Apple Storage Area Network device people have been waiting for.

Or Xsan or xSan. Trademarked on March 10. Description is for "computer hardware and software." Is this something that is already being used? Or have I finally found new trademark that nobody else has? "Computer hardware and software" makes it sound like it has been announced yet.

eXtra Super Apple Network !

No idea...

Well, if they are referring to Storage Area Network, the XServe RAID will be used to deploy this.

A SAN is used to share storage volumes among multiple systems. For example, we use a SAN, connected via Fibre Channel, between two servers to keep a high availability database cluster running.

The only thing they need now is Fibre Channel switches to connect multiple XServe RAID units to multiple XServes. I think currently you can only connect one XServe to an XServe RAID.

Ah ha! So it is an unannounced product. But unfortunately, a very boring one for most people. :(

Well this could really open up some doors for Apple in corporate networks. The XServe already has great capability, and by the looks of this, it can have tremendous storage capability with clustering.

Very interesting. I like the potential implications of this -- Apple seems to be putting more and more pieces into place for a push into the enterprise arena.

interesting. i just read a big article about SAN in last month's issue of Mix. i'm assuming this XSAN will have something to do with some high-speed mass storage for high-end audio/video work. currently i think SAN is used mostly in major post production houses and mega recording studios. sounds awesome too. probably won't ever make it's way into my tiny bedroom studio though. :)

Very quietly, Apple has also trademarked "Next Tuesday" Steve Jobs said, "We're not milking enough money out of our aging G4 line, don't expect to see much revenue form ProCare for a few quarters and can't deliver on the popular iPod Mini so we figured we'd squeeze a few dollars from the faithful who populate Mac rumor sites. Apple is taking an open source approach to licensing the term and will only charge US $.99 per use of the term. Payment wil be handled through the iTunes Music Store."

The term is frequently used by the faithful in the hopes that Apple will get off its arse and update its product line. Apple has a history of releasing product on Tuesday's although most can't remember the last time.

Still up in the air is whether or not Apple also trademarked "el martes próximo", "folgender Dienstag", le mardi prochain" and other popular iterations.

Wow :) Can I just say - don't all SANs have EMBEDDED OSes???? Wouldn't this mean an Embedded version of OS X, which could mean great things!

Look at Lacie's, or HP's SANs, They BOTH have embedded XP or embedded Sun - could this mean apple is making an embedded os - which could be used for phones? or pdas?