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Apple Planning New Server Farm in North Carolina
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As to the topic - we read about Apples massive market share growth in higher education. My guess is that they are simply bringing their system bandwidth more in line with the growth they are experiencing and projecting.
HD video, more Apple users, cloud computing, and....
HD video, more Apple users, cloud computing, and....
DiamondMac
macrumors 68040
If it means a better MobileMe service, I am all for it
I am glad that I bought an account and am happy with it at the moment but I hope the outages/problems have come to an end.
I am glad that I bought an account and am happy with it at the moment but I hope the outages/problems have come to an end.
winmacguy
macrumors 68020
winmacguy
macrumors 68020
iTunes uses an Oracle back end and for the rest of Apples business stuff they use SAP, so no they wouldn't be using Xserves. Apples Oracle set up for iTunes is the biggest of its kind in the world.
lets hope they already have those servers in place. If not, it's gonna get ugly.
Willis
macrumors 68020
I don't think the article said it would contain Apple xServe servers. My assumption is that it will house whatever type servers they need to run their stuff.
I don't think the Senate should be giving one treatment to one company and different treatment to another. They're supposed to treat everyone the same.
ivladster
macrumors 6502
ivladster
macrumors 6502
Hate to break it to you, but human body is not Carbon friendly either. You make Carbon 24/7-365.
Stop breathing now to be carbon friendly.
no, the coast maybe, but not like Florida, i moved to Charlotte NC, about 2 or 3 hrs from the beach, that far away it would be a thunderstorm
i lived on the coast of FL an got hit by 4 hurricanes in the last 4 years there.
winmacguy
macrumors 68020
I read an article about it a while back - It would have cost Apple too much to design something in house and it was much faster to use an off the shelf set up which was already designed to to what Apple wanted for the iTunes store. That is also why they use SAP for their CRM stuff. Apple does that with a lot of the things it gets into. Partly why they used those Windows PDA cash machines in their stores from MS - until they could do it with a 3rd party plug in for the iPhone.
Shasterball
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I don't mind that they spread out their services -- that is produce more than hardware. But, I would be annoyed if they stretched themselves thin and their hardware (what I am most interested in) starts to suffer ingenuity and quality wise...
We've been known to get rocked by hurricanes in the past. Not often, but they do make it up this far, still in hurricane form.
good call with the name. i hope this news means we'll be able to charge Chipotle to our itunes accounts.
bring it on
As someone who actually lives in Charlotte, I say, bring it on!
With the exception of inside the actual apple store in charlotte, all the apple services suffer from less than stellar bandwidth IMO. MobileMe is dreadfully slow (though I'm not sure it's much different anywhere else other than in Cupertino) so an east coast server farm should help tremendously.
While Charlotte is definitely the more happenin' city in the state, the triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) would be a good fit since there's SAS and RTP there already + the 3 big universities, and the infrastructure might be already somewhat in place (as if know what I'm really talking about here) up in the triangle.
And no, to whomever said it above, neither Charlotte nor the Triangle is prone to hurricanes or storms of any real threat. Other than Hugo 10 years ago, its pretty much dry dry dry, rain, dry here.
*this would have been a better article if it'd said Verizon plans to bring FiOS to charlotte. 😱
As someone who actually lives in Charlotte, I say, bring it on!
With the exception of inside the actual apple store in charlotte, all the apple services suffer from less than stellar bandwidth IMO. MobileMe is dreadfully slow (though I'm not sure it's much different anywhere else other than in Cupertino) so an east coast server farm should help tremendously.
While Charlotte is definitely the more happenin' city in the state, the triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill) would be a good fit since there's SAS and RTP there already + the 3 big universities, and the infrastructure might be already somewhat in place (as if know what I'm really talking about here) up in the triangle.
And no, to whomever said it above, neither Charlotte nor the Triangle is prone to hurricanes or storms of any real threat. Other than Hugo 10 years ago, its pretty much dry dry dry, rain, dry here.
*this would have been a better article if it'd said Verizon plans to bring FiOS to charlotte. 😱
DELLsFan
macrumors 6502a
What?? No no ... that's not right. They're designed here in the USA, but made in China, thank you very much.
Ask the Jerkinator and likely the scores of businesses and folks fleeing CA for this answer.
Yes, please. The people of CA need to feel good about being the highest taxed, least fiscally responsible state. The last thing that needs to be told is the truth about why Apple won't plant its latest Orchard in the Golden State. Frankly, I'm surprised they still choose to stay in Cupertino.
