Hello Final Cut Server, Goodbye XRaid

I got a ping tonight from our media director, Dave Marks, to mention the Final Cut Server is now shipping… albeit it is almost 9 months later than apple had promised originally.. it is shipping.

One thing that caught my eye when I was reading the Apple site, they are now pushing/directly selling a new fiber channel san that doesn’t have the apple logo, but rather a Promise Raid that is ‘Apple Xsan 2 and Final Cut Studio 2 Qualified’.  I guess I have been under a rock since I found reports as early as Feb 19th that Apple has decided to get out of the storage hardware business. Apple has released XSan2 which now is proud to tout that they are able to utilize 3rd party storage solutions.