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HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading server solutions developer, today announced that all HELIOS products now support Apple Xsan, the enterprise-class storage area network (SAN) from Apple Computer. HELIOS server solutions and Xsan are a great match, combining superb SAN solutions with high disk capacity. HELIOS WebShare, EtherShare, PCShare, ImageServer, PrintPreview, and PDF HandShake are all available for Mac OS X and include full support for Apple Xsan. "Apple Xsan fulfills a growing demand from our customer base, for high capacity file systems that can grow as needed,” said Helmut Tschemernjak, President of HELIOS. "The combination of Tiger Server, Xserve G5, Xserve RAID and Xsan offers enterprise customers an unbeatable combination of price, performance and interoperability in heterogeneous environments,” said Ron Okamoto, Apple’s vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations. "We're thrilled that the HELIOS product range fully supports Xsan to offer customers high performance remote file access and management over SANs." HELIOS WebShare enables extremely secure high performance remote file access and management via any web browser. HELIOS EtherShare and PCShare provide integrated cross-platform networking, with advanced file and print server services, for Mac and Windows clients. HELIOS ImageServer, PDF HandShake and PrintPreview bring great efficiency and advanced capabilities to design, prepress and printing operations. HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers including Apple Computer Mac OS X, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX and Tru64 UNIX, IBM AIX, SGI, IRIX, Sun Solaris, and Linux on Pentium based systems. HELIOS products provide reliable cross-platform support for Macintosh, DOS/Windows and UNIX-based clients. Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers. HELIOS also works with many strategic partners that incorporate HELIOS server software to provide powerful third party archive, asset management and workflow solutions. HELIOS software products are also available as part of OEM solutions by many major vendors in the prepress industry.