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A Look inside Apple's iCloud data center
Brandon Davenport
On Monday, Apple announced their new iCloud service during the WWDC 2011 keynote and people went nuts. It allows all iDevices to cut the cord (no more sync cable), music, photos and videos to sync across all devices and automatic backups to protect your content. Apple also introduced email, calendar and document services — but the really interesting part for us geeks isn’t the poofy, candy-coated consumer burble — it’s the tech behind the iCloud.
Apple’s data center from a birds-eye view
“When this development is completed it will be massive not only in size but also in Scope - This thing is so massive and expensive - Word is some of the contractors had to live on site. Apple will soon be netting $50 Billion per year from here…” — Bill, poster of that video
- Location — Maiden NC. 225 Startown Road
- Cost — $45k per acre / $500+ million total
- Size — 500,000 square foot (one of the largest in the world)
- Hardware — Terradata, HP, Apple, NetApp
Inside look at the data center
A NetApp FAS620 in the lower-right hand corner (3TB Storage)
This picture shows 30 Terradata which are used to crunch massive amounts of data
There’s at least at least 100 HP rack servers in this shot
Apple’s data center from the sky!
