More news on the ongoing struggle to bring enterprise IT storage into our world. Eric Newbauer, VP at Studio Network Solutions describes the company’s adventures working with IBM and EMC to bring Mac connectivity to the big storage boys including LSI, EMC, IBM, Hitachi, HP, and Sun. “They have certain features within their storage arrays that can’t be taken advantage of without our driver,” Newbauer is saying. That’s a diplomatic understatement of the technical and cultural challenges involved in bringing IT and content creation together.

The SNS’ approach takes the form of Ellipse Enterprise, and I’ll describe it just the way they do: An enterprise-class, high-availability 4-Gbps fibre channel host bus adapter for Mac OSX. Can be PCIe or PCI-X. Single-, dual-, or quad-port, claiming up to 800 MB/s per part in full duplex mode. Supports Intel-based Macs and PowerPC Macs in case you were wondering

A key competitive feature is failover support for all controllers in enterprise arrays.