Apple to discontinue XServe after January


It was revealed Friday that Apple will discontinue its XServe line of rack servers in early 2011. The drop date for new orders is January 31, 2011. Apple stated it will continue to supporting installations through their warranties.

The company is recommending customers transition to either a Mac Pro or Mac Mini running Mac OS X Server. Apple makes the case that those two Mac solutions provide comparable performance to current XServe products. Likely the move simply drops the pretense of Apple being a serious enterprise server player.

XServe was originally introduced in 2002 as a single rack unit server with robust storage and network features. The XServes, saw periodical upgrades for processors, the most recent being spring of 2009. Apple had introduced an accompanying RAID system in 2003 and the company discontinued that 2008.

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Via Engadget