<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Apple today announced the release of Xsan 1.3 at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) event in Las Vegas, Nevada. Xsan 1.3 is a free upgrade for existing users and will be available for download on Monday, April 24 at 1PM Pacific.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To simplify storage configuration especially in HD environments Xsan 1.3 now supports Fibre Channel LUNs greater than 2TB in size; no longer must 7TB Xserve RAID users slice their storage and potentially impact storage bandwidth in order to maximize their storage usage. This release also includes numerous improvements to the products general reliability, volume resharing performance and compatibility with mixed platforms and third-party applications.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The update can be obtained through Software Update or the support download page at:</DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px"><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002DD6">http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/</FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Xsan 1.3 is designed to support Tiger systems running 10.4.5 (or later), Panther system running 10.3.9 and includes a new Xsan Admin application for use with all Xsan deployments, even those continuing to run earlier releases. Xsan 1.3 is a software update release only, the shrink-wrap retail boxes and disc images are not being updated for the 1.3 release.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This release includes fixes for:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- labeling and initializing LUNs greater than 2TB in size</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- preventing labeled LUNs from becoming unlabeled</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- improving AFP performance when re-sharing Xsan volumes</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- more accurate file permissions when sharing Xsan volumes via AFP</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- accessing Xsan volumes larger than 16 terabytes in size</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- greater server stability when re-sharing Xsan volumes via NFS</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- handling quotas with no associated user or group name</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- maintaining access to Xsan volumes when metadata controller fail-overs occur</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- providing metadata controller services to 10.3.9 and 10.4 systems running Xsan 1.2</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- operating Xsan in environments with a mix of 10.3.9 and 10.4 systems</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">- compatibility with third-party applications and devices</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For detailed information on this Update, please visit the AppleCare support web site at:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><A href="http://www.apple.com/support/xsan/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#001FE2">http://www.apple.com/support/xsan/</FONT></A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NOTE: Several new Knowledge Base articles are now available on a variety of topics including "Using LUNs larger than 2TB", how to expand an Xsan volume and the difference between "bandwidth expansion" and "capacity expansion". 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