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Report: Apple May Build Near Facebook in Oregon
December 3rd, 2011 : Rich Miller
Apple is considering whether to build a new data center adjacent to the Facebook facility in Prineville, Oregon, according to local media. Read More
Apple Planning Solar Array Near iDataCenter
October 26th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Apple is in the early stages of installing an array of solar panels on a large parcel of land it is clearing for its new data center in Maiden, North Carolina, according to documents filed with officials in Catawba County. Read More
Scott Noteboom Moves from Yahoo to Apple
October 23rd, 2011 : Rich Miller
Scott Noteboom, who in recent years has led the data center team at Yahoo, has taken a position at Apple. Noteboom now lists Apple as his employer on his LinkedIn profile, but it's not entirely clear what his exact role will be. Read More
Report: Apple Has Spent $750M on iDataCenter
October 14th, 2011 : Rich Miller
A new analysis by 9to5mac suggests that Apple has already spent as much as $750 million on the iDataCenter, the company's 500,000 square foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina.. Read More
Remembering Steve Jobs
October 6th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Today the technology world is remembering Apple founder Steve Jobs, who passed away last night at 56. Jobs was unique was his ability to inspire others to accomplish something insanely great, which transformed the world of technology and entertainment, and may yet do the same for the data center and the cloud. Read More
Cringley on Apple: The Math Needs Some Work
June 29th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Robert X. Cringley asserts that Apple's iDataCenter is empty, and would hold 7.2 million servers if it was full. Alas, Cringley has extrapolated a single data point into a broad conclusion about a data center, and the analysis is doomed by flawed assumptions and bad math. Read More
iCloud Mystery: Is Apple Using Azure & Amazon?
June 16th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Early users of Apple's iCloud technology have uncovered a bit of a mystery: evidence that Apple may be using Windows Azure and/or Amazon Web Services in its early implementation of the iCloud. Read More
Steve Jobs Provides A Look Inside the iDataCenter
June 6th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Apple today offered a glimpse of its new data center as it announced its much-anticipated iCloud cloud computing service, which will allow iTunes users to store music, photos and documents in Apple's data centers. The photos revealed some aspects of Apple's data center design. Read More
The iDataCenter and the Eye in the Sky
June 1st, 2011 : Rich Miller
The web was awash in conspiracy theories Wednesday after the new Apple data center in Maiden, North Carolina "suddenly" appeared on satellite imagery from Google Maps. Were there cahoots between the two companies? It doesn't look that way. Are there facilities that are "stealthed" on Google Maps? Yep. Read More