Aerial Video of Apple's Finished NC Data Center, Already Plans for Expansion?

[guzhogi]

From a recent article link at the source link:



It appears IBM with their client-server model is at the heart of Apple's cloud.

I told you so.

Rocketman

Looks kinda bad that Apple wouldn't even use its own servers for its own data center.

 

[gimpymw]

can someone post a Google Maps link to the area where this data center is? I'm an urban planner and it's always interesting to see the surroundings of these kind of projects.

just zoom into the state of North Carolina and then type in Apple Inc. in the search. should be near Maiden NC. Anyway, its interesting that Google maps including streetview shows nothing more than empty fields.

 

[medazinol]

The guy is flying an ultralight. I know the sound of a Rotax 503 any day

Just in case you doubt me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5At1OMzPxM

 

[alent1234]

Looks kinda bad that Apple wouldn't even use its own servers for its own data center.

that's why they are building a second datacenter next door. Xserves scale so bad you need twice as much of them as you would dell/hp/ibm

 

[guzhogi]

that's why they are building a second datacenter next door. Xserves scale so bad you need twice as much of them as you would dell/hp/ibm

Then hopefully this will get Apple to update the xServes into a more viable server.

 

[AidenShaw]

Looks kinda bad that Apple wouldn't even use its own servers for its own data center.

Then hopefully this will get Apple to update the xServes into a more viable server.

Not really - Apple is not in the enterprise datacenter market.

The XServe is very much an entry-level SMB rackmount system, not what you want for high availability huge storage applications. Apple no longer even makes storage arrays for XServes.

One IBM zSeries might have as many as 96 POWER cores at 5.2 GHz with 1520 GiB of RAM, and tremendendous amounts of IO bandwidth and connectivity.

Datacenter systems also need high availability (failover clustering) and storage management (local and remote replication) software - and little of that runs on OSX.

It doesn't look bad for Apple at all to be using best-in-class hardware and software for their data centers.

The lame automotive analogy would be that you wouldn't criticize Ferrari because your new 599 GTB arrived on a Volvo truck.

 

[DTphonehome]

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500,000 square feet ought to be enough for anybody.

Well anybody but the NSA.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/...nters/largest-data-centers-worthy-contenders/


However, if you look closely at that..... where "anybody" is a single company ... yes. No one company really needs a single location bigger than 500K. Most of these > 500K centers are co-loc centers where there are multiple tenants.


P.S. For the person who said that Microsoft and Google are shivering in their boots because of Apple's center ...... LOL

Top 10 list :

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/special-report-the-worlds-largest-data-centers/

Microsoft has four separate centers in the top 10 list. Google doesn't make the Top 10 list but has those beat on collective size. (more 100K like centers rather than putting all eggs into just a couple of baskets. )

That was me. I never implied that Apple would be taking over MS or Google's abilities, merely that they are going to compete with them in some strong way when this comes online.

 

[nsayer]

Not surprised

I used to work for Netflix. At the time, they moved from their old facilities further south to their current headquarters complex. At the time they broke ground on the first building, they had an option on the 2nd building, but by the time the 1st building was finished, they knew that they were going to need the whole second building to accommodate projected growth.

 

[nsayer]

Looks kinda bad that Apple wouldn't even use its own servers for its own data center.

Why would they? Those servers have a down-rev version of Java that's about to be dropped by the OS vendor.

 

[ComputersaysNo]

Sorry for kicking this up, but today i read on a newssite (www.nu.nl) that Jobs & Rupert Murdoch are planning launching a digital newspaper.

http://www.nu.nl/internet/2383902/jobs-en-murdoch-werken-tabletkrant.html

Google translate:

According to anonymous sources, the first edition, called the "Daily" at the end of November are presented. The newspaper will not print or web version and will therefore only be read on a tablet computer.

One hundred journalists were hired to fill the newspaper. A new edition of the newspaper can be sent automatically to a tablet with no printing or distribution costs. This would be an issue cost 99 cents per week.

Research

Murdoch got the idea for the tablet after reading a newspaper investigation which found that readers spend more time on their iPads than the Internet. Furthermore, the tycoon to prove that consumers would be willing to pay for online news quality.

A source said: "Murdoch foresees a world in which every family an iPad house and that the device which they receive their news and information. If only five percent of the 40 million users iPad buy the newspaper, he has two million subscribers. "

Sounds plaussible for such a larga datacenter no?