From the way I read it, it's not a matter of doubling the facility, but doubling the capacity. Apple would be very foolish to locate all it's cloud-based eggs in one data center.
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Apple Considering Doubling Size of North Carolina Data Center?
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From the way I read it, it's not a matter of doubling the facility, but doubling the capacity. Apple would be very foolish to locate all it's cloud-based eggs in one data center.
Very well said.
I selectively use the cloud for some things, and yet still have it all backed up to my own server. It's win, win that way.
I've given up on using other company's cloud and made my own. Its much more reliable, if a bit slower. (Intermittent Google Account outages were the last straw for me)
Excellent thought.
For fault tolerant issues (among others) - it would seem to make much more sense for Apple to create a new data center of the same size in another location (since they have one in California, one coming online in North Carolina). The midwest or southwest would seem to be more appropriate than putting more eggs in the North Carolina basket.
They can put one right next to my house. Maybe they can buy me out for 1.7 mil.
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Apple is buying Netlist to take advantage of their Hypercloud memory chip architecture, their Netvault proprietary capacitor for backing up data for ten years, and their Planar X technology.
Couple that with the fact that Netlist is suing Google for reverse engineering their patent protected IP and is asking a judge to shut down their servers. Netlist is a $75 million dollar company.
Also, this technology is energy efficient and vastly reduces the cost of operating data centers. It's Apple vs. Google and Apple won't lose.
Look up Netlist.com and ticker symbol NLST. This is going to get bought up soon.
Apple is buying Netlist to take advantage of their Hypercloud memory chip architecture, their Netvault proprietary capacitor for backing up data for ten years, and their Planar X technology.
Couple that with the fact that Netlist is suing Google for reverse engineering their patent protected IP and is asking a judge to shut down their servers. Netlist is a $75 million dollar company.
Also, this technology is energy efficient and vastly reduces the cost of operating data centers. It's Apple vs. Google and Apple won't lose.
Look up Netlist.com and ticker symbol NLST. This is going to get bought up soon.
Time machine
Anybody ever think it might be used for Time machine?
People aren't comfortable enough to have all their data stored somewhere else but having a backup of your data in another location (which many companies do anyway incase of a fire) is a completely different story.
Anybody ever think it might be used for Time machine?
People aren't comfortable enough to have all their data stored somewhere else but having a backup of your data in another location (which many companies do anyway incase of a fire) is a completely different story.
For all their supposed care for the environment -- making a big deal out of planting a few hundred square feet of grass on their new Chicago store roof and such -- here they are cutting down hundreds of thousands of square feet of pristine, mature woodlands, plastering their ugly concrete block into the beautiful mountains. How loudly can you say "hypocrites"?
Doubling, or increasing, the size/capacity seems like putting all your eggs in one basket. With weather events increasing in frequency and severity, what happens if this facility gets knocked off-line? Earthquake, tornado, hurricane, floods, or mudslides can reduce essential services like communications, electricity, etc.
Maiden, NC, being NW of Charlotte and well inland, somewhat lessens the risk from hurricane wind damage, but not from rain. Will Apple keep open the smaller California facility, which is at risk from earthquakes?
Whatever service Apple is planning, 99+% up-time will be expected. Hopefully, Apple has carefully conducted a thorough risk assessment for Maidens weather, and reliability of area communications and power grid.
Maiden, NC, being NW of Charlotte and well inland, somewhat lessens the risk from hurricane wind damage, but not from rain. Will Apple keep open the smaller California facility, which is at risk from earthquakes?
Whatever service Apple is planning, 99+% up-time will be expected. Hopefully, Apple has carefully conducted a thorough risk assessment for Maidens weather, and reliability of area communications and power grid.
yeah that would be awesome. i would love to hear even just about this data center and what it'll be used for