heterogeneous environments

Updated Version of McAfee Virex Offers Virus Protection for Tiger OS

McAfee today announced that McAfee Virex for Macintosh now offers support for the Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) operating system. With extended support for Apple’s newest Mac OS X, small to large businesses can implement real-time prevention of viruses, worms, Trojans and other potentially unwanted programs across their Macintosh and heterogeneous environments.

McAfee Virex is available August 29, 2005 worldwide through McAfee, Inc. and its channel partners.

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Xserve RAID updated with up to 5.6TB of storage at about $2/GB

Apple today updated its Xserve RAID storage system, a 3U high-availability, rack storage system to deliver a massive 5.6 terabytes (TB) of storage capacity at the industry’s most aggressive price for storage of just over $2 per GB. Apple has also expanded support for heterogeneous environments with certification from Cisco and SUSE Linux and optimized the system to work with its Xsan Storage Area Network file system.
Pricing & Availability
The new Xserve RAID is available today through the Apple Store and through Apple Authorized Resellers. Xserve RAID comes in three standard configurations, or can be fully customized to meet specific customer requirements. Build-to-order options can include additional Apple Drive Modules and cache battery modules.

Xserve RAID with a suggested retail price of $5,999 (US) includes:

  • 1TB RAID 0 total available storage;

  • dual independent RAID controllers with 512MB cache per controller;
  • dual 2GB Fibre Channel SFP ports with 200MBps throughput per channel;
  • four 250GB ATA/100 Apple Drive Modules; and
  • 8MB on-drive cache.

Xserve RAID with a suggested retail price of $8,499 (US) includes:

  • 2.8TB RAID 0 total available storage;

  • dual independent RAID controllers with 512MB cache per controller;
  • dual 2GB Fibre Channel SFP ports with 200MBps throughput per channel;
  • seven 400GB ATA/100 Apple Drive Modules; and
  • 8MB on-drive cache.

Xserve RAID with a suggested retail price of $12,999 (US) includes:

  • 5.6TB RAID 0 total available storage;

  • dual independent RAID controllers with 512MB cache per controller;
  • dual 2GB Fibre Channel SFP ports with 200MBps throughput per channel;
  • fourteen 400GB ATA/100 Apple Drive Modules; and
  • 8MB on-drive cache.

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