First Look: Apple’s Massive iDataCenter

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Jeff

Posted February 22nd, 2010

There’s no way that’s just a data center: look at all the shipping docks!

[...] of Apple’s giant data center in Newark, Calif., isn’t exactly pretty, but as far as efforts to house 500,000 square feet of data center space in a single building go, it’s pretty impressive. And it does have a bit of Area 51 about it, particularly since Apple [...]

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[...] That Data Center Is Fully Operational! You know that tingle up your spine you got when you first caught a glimpse of the Death Star II? Watch this fly-by video of Apple’s new $1 billion iDataCenter in Maiden, North Carolina and tell me if you get the same feeling. Still, you’ll probably learn to love it—in the iCloud future, this is where all of your data will be stored. (Unless it’s stored on a Bloom Box-fueled Google data center, that is). [Data Center Knowledge] [...]

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[...] That Data Center Is Fully Operational! You know that tingle up your spine you got when you first caught a glimpse of the Death Star II? Watch this fly-by video of Apple's new $1 billion iDataCenter in Maiden, North Carolina and tell me if you get the same feeling. Still, you'll probably learn to love it—in the iCloud future, this is where all of your data will be stored. (Unless it's stored on a Bloom Box-fueled Google data center, that is). [Data Center Knowledge] [...]

S.U.

Posted February 23rd, 2010

@jeff Those “shipping docks” look more like cutouts for generator radiators. To the left of those there are 5 cutouts that look more like loading docks. The part that catches my eye is the giant water storage tank.

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[...] everything is moving to the cloud, including our music. With Bitspace out of the closed beta and Apple building a massive data center in North Carolina, it seems like we’ll be choosing between 3rd party cloud music apps and iTunes Air in a [...]

Bob

Posted February 23rd, 2010

The reason there are are loading docks is because the computing power inside this data center will most likely be housed in self contained shipping containers. All you do is hook up power and water-cooling and they are ready to be deployed. They look similar to these from sun who to my knowledge were the first to have a real-world model.
http://www.sun.com/service/sunmd/

Tossing Apples into the cloud

Posted February 23rd, 2010

“Oh sure we could talk about what they will do exactly – how they will monetize – inside the structure. Just open any internet/software oriented blog for a while, likely you will find someone venturing a guess. I have no information on that…

…but what is this place; Maiden NC.”
Posted the video and look at the site, in the blog.

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[...] about Apple bringing iTunes, music and video streaming to the cloud. They’re building a mammoth data center in North Carolina, they just bought Lala which is a streaming media service, and then there’s [...]

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[...] Maybe it’s just disappointment from unsubstantiated rumors (and maybe it’s the late hour), but I was really hoping Steve Jobs would finally unleash MobileMe, bring Apple into the cloud and create a robust link between my iPhone and my MacBook. Maybe they just need to finish up that data center. [...]

[...] a new “secret” 500,000 sq. ft. data center in rural North Carolina. In an article on DataCenterKnowledge.com, they even have an aerial view of this massive [...]

[...] Re: Compressed or uncompressed? You got two things here: The storage system itself (drobo, cds, dvds or other) And your software you use for backups or even manual procedures maintained by you (archives x1, x2 etc) I don't want to advertise drobo, but drobo can use several raid levels. Anyway, one of them is mirroring. As you create your archives you fill one hard disk and the other one acts as a duplicate. When the disk is full you take one out and this is your library. You store this into your fireproof safebox. Then you take a fresh HD reformat the array and you begin new. Drobo is just simple to use and is one of many ways to increase safety. You are not the IT director of Apple's newest data center, so I believe 4x backups are quite a lot but whatever…clickme [...]

[...] dürfte dem Jahr 2004 entstammt. In welchem Ausmaß das neue Apple-Rechenzentrum in Maiden, North Carolina dabei bereits zum Einsatz kommt, ist nur zu vermuten. Die Ankündigung per Pressemitteilung, [...]

[...] Tagged apple, grooveshark, lala, last.fm, pandora Pandora, Last.fm, Grooveshark live to breathe another day. The recent shutdown of Lala streaming service signaled the possibility of an Apple equivalent service being launched in the form of iTunes.com. That investment however seem to require more development time before it will bear fruit. I bet Apple is having a hell of a time to negotiate international rights to all of the media they want to stream out of their new data centre. [...]

[...] Apple built it’s largest “iDataCenter” in Maiden, North Carolina about two years ago. It’s 5x their previous largest space. Here is some aerial surveillance curtesy of a local [...]

[...] about a major upgrade (centred around their huge data centre project), but these are now over a year ancient [...]

[...] required. Luckily enough Apple has just built their largest Datacenter yet. The new billion dollar iDataCenter in Maiden, North Carolina covers a vast 500,000 square feet of space, nearly 5 times the size of their [...]

[...] bra för att vara sant. Framförallt känns det som att det är för framtungt vad gäller lagring, trots Apples nya datacenter. Även vad gäller mängden data som ska synkroniseras känns det… mycket. Men jag är säker [...]

[...] required. Luckily enough Apple has just built their largest Datacenter yet. The new billion dollar iDataCenter in Maiden, North Carolina covers a vast 500,000 square feet of space, nearly 5 times the size of their [...]

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