DAVE v9.0

Mac OS X enterprise storage with commercial grade DFS and SMB/CIFS

DAVE ® delivers commercial grade, two-way Mac file and printer sharing integration and collaboration with Windows infrastructures.

Thursby cowrote the Mac SMB/CIFS standards with Microsoft back in 2002, adding full DFS support the same year.   MacWorld reviewed DAVE as a "must-have" consumer product at the time.  Today, in its ninth generation, DAVE has a professional and enterprise user base since simple home and small business use cases are covered by native OS X, requiring no third party software.

Highlights

• Lion and Snow Leopard
• Full support for commercial grade Microsoft DFS (Distributed File Systems) standard
• Full support for network shares and network home folders standard
• Full support for commercial grade Microsoft SMB/CIFS (Server Message Block/Common Internet File System)
• Especially designed with networked Apple Final Cut Pro (FCP), Adobe Creative Suite (ACS), Avid and Office for Mac applications in mind
• Client-based solution with no lock-in or scaling issues associated with proprietary server-based software on Windows, end of life Xserve or OS X Server
• Native Microsoft protocol implementations, not protocol conversion around legacy AFP
• Proven, robust and highly scalable
• Mac integration and collaboration market leader for 16 years
• Developers with Mountain Lion please refer to beta information here

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Selected quotes

"DAVE is one of those products that just 'works' - no hype, no fancy marketing, no paid endorsements."

Michael Kulyk, MACSPECTRUM, Apple System Admin, long-time user and installer

”DAVE is a flawless program. Once it's installed, it just works and solves problems for us with Final Cut Pro that we had with AFP”

Bob Zelin, President, Rescue 1, Professional television and audio industry solutions

"For situations where performance is paramount, DAVE and ADmitMac are the preferred choices."

Geert van Teylingen, NetApp - White Paper

Free enterprise trial

• DAVE is available for a free trial prior to purchase
• These are full function, fully documented site licenses including free technical support to facilitate enterprise deployment and scalability testing.

Pricing

• Click here for pricing information

Informational videos

• DAVE Fast Facts Video
  

• Short Demo of DAVE
  

Decades of experience build-in lower TCO

• Simple - client-based, no lock-in to proprietary Windows server software, no NOC, no OS X Server and no schema changes for simple deployment and maintenance
• Transparent - leverages standard Windows or Mac tools, infrastructure and processes for reduced costs, time-lines, risk and overall rollout complexity, with greater security
• Complete - everything included end-to-end, so no hidden costs for server software or access fees, missing features, required 3rd party software, required training or professional services and backed by 100% Apple-Microsoft engineering and support specialists

Additional capabilities

• Supports all current Windows operating systems and clustering
• Network Attached Storage (NAS) support allowing access to industry standard physical, virtualized or cloud storage products from vendors such as EMC, Isilon and NetApp
• Compatible with UNIX/Linux platforms running Samba
• Correctly implements NTFS Resource Forks - eliminates extraneous ._ (dot underscore) files
• Supports Windows ACLs and long file names
• Compatible with popular Mac enterprise anti-virus, deployment, encryption, maintenance and virtualization tools
• Features can be added and bugs corrected without any need to change the particular OS X version being run
• Legacy versions are also available for PowerPC and from Mac OS X 10.5 to Mac OS 8