Is there life after Xserve? Many people believe that yes, there are even those who do not want to pass

It was a tremendous bear, for Apple to have, exactly one month ago, announced the end of Xserve on the other hand, it is good that she announced this in advance and has already guaranteed that she will provide full assistance to all devices that are under warranty. With the imminent end now, the question remains for administrators of Ma server-based solutions: is there life after Xserve?

Intent to continue with Xserve

A survey conducted by the Enterprise Desktop Alliance of 1,200 IT administrators estimated that only a third of those responsible for government and large enterprise installations plan to switch their Xserves in a year or less (and, in general, file access solutions will migrate to Windows, while website hosting should use Linux / UNIX machines). Of the rest, half will only leave the servers when they take their last breath. The numbers do not differ both in small businesses and in the education sector.

This helps to slightly dissolve the image that IT professionals were irredeemably offended by this decision by Apple, but for those who want to stay loyal to Mac OS X the current solutions are a bit laughable: using a Mac mini (small and limited, impossible) for medium or large data centers) or a Mac Pro (powerful and powerful, equally impossible), not to mention that both have the defect of only having a single power supply. The ideal would be to be able to virtualize the Mac OS X Server on non-Apple hardware, but it may be a bit of a dream to wait for it not to mention that there are those who doubt the existence of a version of Lion for servers.

According to the 9 to 5 Mac, however, this should not be necessary: ​​all this history of discontinuing the Xserve would be just a way to prepare the ground for an alternative solution, which will arrive as soon as the stocks of traditional servers run out. A very low consumption solution running on A4 chips, who knows? An “Apple TV-server”? Or a cloud-based solution that makes use of the North Carolina data center? For now we can only imagine what it would be, or even if something like this is on the way.

(via CNET News)