OS X Leopard from Mac and Solaris from Sun Gets Better with Chelsio Software Driver
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Chelsio Communications, Inc., the name behind some of the market’s most popular ASIC solutions and Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) adapters, had launched its first software driver for the Mac OS X “Leopard” from Apple. The addition of the company’s Unified Wire adapters is only one of the various things that have made Leopard’s enterprise data centers continuously expanding.
The NIC driver is multifunctional, able to support MAC OS X version 10.5.2 and other subsequent versions. Users can also look forward to more Unified Wire components like iWARP RDMA and offloaded iSCSI initiator as well as EFI support in future updates.
According to Chelsio president and CEO Kianoosh Naghshineh, their Unified Wire adapters “Have been proven to be the highest performance interconnects for enterprise data center environments utilizing Mac OS X.” He further stated that their all-in-one products are “future proofing Mac OS X environments and enabling low cost fabric convergence.”
The executive VP at Apace Systems, Jeanclaude Toma, certainly agrees. “Chelsio is a leading provider of 10Gb Ethernet connectivity and its support for Mac OS X expands the ecosystem of high performance interconnect options for our enterprise data center customers. (Its) ability to deliver high-bandwidth connectivity across a wide range of network environments will be a great benefit to our Mac OS X customers.”
New Software Driver for Solaris
Earlier, Chelsio Communications, Inc. had also announced the successful and complete certification of its software drivers for Sun Microsystems’ Solaris™ Ready Program. Now, 10GbE adapters from the company will come with Solaris Ready logos, able to support PXE Boot, iSCSI Boot, and is multifunctional also with its NIC driver. Future updates will, similar with Chelsio’s software drivers for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, offer iWARP RMDA and iSCSI initiator too.
About Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
First impressions of the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the descendant of Macs OS X 10.4 Tiger, had been generally positive. There were a lot of things to enjoy. iChat gave users the freedom to share access to their respective desktops, CoverFlows allowed for visual file browsing, and workaholics were granted more expansive workplace via a virtual desktop.
The 10.5 Leopard version, however, was not perfect. After some time, users reported minor difficulties with certain applications and installation. New features like geotagging would have been great, if users could just figure out where to access them. And of course, older Mac versions were incapable of running the newest OS.