Were you a fan of Apple’s X-Serve and X-Raid products? We were, and it seemed that all was lost for users of Apple’s server program. It wasn’t a lost cause for folks like Alex Grossman who founded Active Storage to fill the need after Apple moved away from enterprise level support. In this interview Alex Grossman discusses how Apple’s decision to drop support for the X-Serve led to the creation of their company! Wonder what you would do if you were committed to enterprise level storage on the Mac platform, and you worked for Apple, and the company decides to exit that market? If you are Alex Grossman and colleagues you leave Apple and start a company to begin where Apple left off. In this in-depth interview we discuss all this and more! Mac Edition Radio’s own John Mulhern III discusses the server and storage landscape from the point-of-view of academia. Listen in to discover how Active Storage has flourished with its line of hardware and software solutions. Recorded at the Storage Vision Conference in Las Vegas.  (27:15)

Harris Fogel & John Mulhern III, edited by Nancy Burlan, Posted 6/24/2012 

For more information on Active Storage visit: www.activestorage.com