Apple Already Pursuing Minor Expansion at North Carolina Data Center

[Daalseth]

We made it unibody, and glued the servers to the walls to save space! !

Oh No! That means that the building cannot be recycled when they move out.

 

[cvaldes]

Which servers do they use?

Apple uses a variety of enterprise-caliber vendors, although it's possible that they are using Mac minis in a blade server configuration for certain tasks.

In the past, they have mentioned unsurprisingly enterprise level installations, like Oracle running on Sun Solaris boxes. Their consumer mail service has been running for years (.Mac, MobileMe, iCloud) on an Oracle-backed mail server (prior to Oracle acquiring Sun Microsystems).

It is likely that Oracle is pretty pervasive for Apple's back-of-the-house operations. Larry Ellison was the best man at Steve Jobs' wedding, they were BFFs.

 

[Magaman]

My question is, why aren't they deploying sharks with laser beams on their heads?

 

[charlituna]

Makes you wonder exactly what is going to be going through these systems. R&D / Apple Internal? I would more expect that closer to home, but I guess it's possible.

They most definitely keep the R&D on campus.

These centers are for iTunes, iCloud etc

 

[mex4eric]

A super secure place to keep all of our passwords for Passbook, AppleID and iWallet type things.

 

[cvaldes]

Makes you wonder exactly what is going to be going through these systems. R&D / Apple Internal? I would more expect that closer to home, but I guess it's possible.

I'm thinking the extra-secure tactical center would be primarily used to store customer data.

The main data center would then be focused on content deployment (music, apps, movies, TV shows, etc.).

The most valuable stuff (customer credit cards, e-mail messages, address books, etc.) would be in the tactical center.

There is a possibility that Apple would use at least part of the tactical center to house Apple internal servers (like inventory, accounting, payroll, ERP, source code repository, CAD repository, etc.) although I'm certain that type of data would be replicated at multiple facilities (just like customer data) for mission critical availability.

It's all just fun speculation. Apple won't tell anyone what's in their data centers for security reasons.

 

[Doctor Q]

Apple's man trap entrance doors:

But how are they going to keep unauthorized women out?

 

[Jackintosh]

Very interesting.

 

[thelink]

I like it. Go Apple!

 

[Bubba Satori]

Anybody know what kind of servers and data links they'll be using?

 

[Saladinos]

They should build some outside of the US. Most companies serving data to global customers have data centres at least on the same continent as those customers.

 

[jdylan]

Boss Hogg manning the gate?

I love that picture. It makes me remember every lazy, obese, redneck-security guard with "sheriff issues" I've ever run into, especially in NC. Rent-a-cops, wannabe cops, etc. And they all have that big basketball sized gut sticking out of their polyester slacks.

 

[xionxiox]

Anybody know what kind of servers and data links they'll be using?

dis?

 

[HiRez]

Man traps? Awesome. With the addition of the poison darts, scorpions, and giant rolling boulder this place will really be secure.

 

[york2600]

Which servers do they use?

This article claims Sun / IBM gear, but the pics they posted at one point showed a lot of HP servers in the NC data center
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscent...bm_servers_in_north_carolina_data_center.html

 

[GenesisST]

Anybody know what kind of servers and data links they'll be using?

http://ipadcolo.net/

 

[Laird Knox]

Apple's man trap entrance doors:

YouTube: video

Just think of how many more people they will need to employ just to pull open all those doors in the background.

But how are they going to keep unauthorized women out?

That's easy!

 

[charlituna]

A 20k foot building bridging two much larger ones. Sounds to be like your standard Admin building with offices, breakdown, etc

 

[Battlefield Fan]

Lol @ the security guard trying to intimidate the photographer of this photo!

 

[rmatthewware]

Why would it be called an iPhone 5? It's the 6th iPHONE. Can we please stop spreading misinformation in every macrumors article?

It's a number. Get over it.

 

[Crzyrio]

A very convient place to keep all your iWallet info that links to your bank accounts

 

[faroZ06]

Why would it be called an iPhone 5? It's the 6th iPHONE. Can we please stop spreading misinformation in every macrumors article?

Let's see what they call it. "iPhone 5" is a perfectly sensible name because the 4S could be considered "version 4.5".

Also, if they did what you wanted, there would be no odd-numbered iPhones.

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My question is, why aren't they deploying sharks with laser beams on their heads?

The sharks are now on the endangered species list. Some sea bass might be present, though.

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They're expanding a lot, but it's all for iCloud, which is a somewhat useless service. Apple has a ton of potential with iCloud, but they aren't applying it well. Hopefully, they're just taking it slow and are going to really bring in some killer features later.

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Pretty soon Apple is gonna declare war on America and try to take it over. Mark my words.

They have been marked with shift++4.

 

[AidenShaw]

The sharks are now on the endangered species list. Some sea bass might be present, though

Very good - definitely a LOL moment. +10

 

[thekev]

My question is, why aren't they deploying sharks with laser beams on their heads?

I figure every creature deserves a warm meal.

 

[justperry]

Man traps? Awesome. With the addition of the poison darts, scorpions, and giant rolling boulder this place will really be secure.

All it takes is a few of these

to get around that security.