Tag Archive | "Data Center"
Apple considering new Data Center in Prineville, Oregon
After setting up a massive 500,000 square foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina, it appears that Apple’s isn’t quite finished with its data center push. OregonLive reported this weekend that Apple is exploring the possibility of opening up a new data center in Prineville, Oregon and that it already has an option to purchase 160 [...]
Continue reading...Apple looking to build Solar Farm to help power its North Carolina Data Center
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
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Organizations like Greenpeace routinely love to criticize Apple for alleged environmental improprieties. But in reality, Apple is one of the more environmentally conscious companies around and is often the target of Greenpeace because they want to attract as much public attention as possible and, well, there’s no better way to spice up a headline than [...]
Continue reading...Mashable’s attention-seeking and conspiratorial headline about Apple’s Data Center and Google Earth
Thursday, June 2, 2011
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As Apple’s massive data center in Maiden, North Carolina ramps up for operations, the huge structure is now visible in its current state via Google Maps and Google Earth. Of course, the images available via Google aren’t entirely new since video flybys of the property, perhaps unauthorized, have been floating around for a while now. [...]
Continue reading...Apple to run voice recognition technology from Nuance at its North Carolina Data Center
Monday, May 9, 2011
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By John Hiesler: It’s largely believed that one of the more important features of iOS 5 will be voice recognition. Not only did Apple purchase Siri – a company well regarded for their voice-activated personal assistant app – but rumor has it that Apple is exploring a deal of some sort with Nuance, the company [...]
Continue reading...Apple wooes away Kevin Timmons, Microsofts head of global cloud computing
Thursday, April 14, 2011
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With the recent hire of Kevin Timmons, Apple’s Data Center plans appear to be moving ahead at full steam. DataCenterKnowledge reports that Apple recently wooed away Kevin Timmons from Microsoft where he had worked on Redmond’s global cloud computing operation for less than two years. Timmons had previously spent over 10 years at Geocities/Yahoo. The hire [...]
Continue reading...Apple purchases 12 Petabytes of storage from Isilon Systems
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
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Forget terabytes, you’re not really ballin’ unless you’re dealing with petabytes – and that’s exactly how Apple rolls. StorageNewsletter is reporting that Apple recently placed an enormous order for 12 petabytes (that’s 12,000 terabytes) of storage support from Isilon Systems. Based out of Seattle, Isilon currently boasts over 1,500 clients and markets clustered storage systems and [...]
Continue reading...Apple looking to expand access to iTunes purchases
Monday, March 7, 2011
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Apple is reportedly engaged in negotiations with record labels in an effort to give iTunes users the ability to store backups of their purchases in the cloud and dowload them again should the originals get lost or destroyed. Bloomberg notes that Apple is currently in talks with Universal Music, Sony Music, Warner Music, and EMI [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s North Carolina Data Center using a “unique design”?
Friday, February 4, 2011
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DataCenterKnowledge reports: Is Apple using custom enclosures and “unique” airflow and cable management in its North Carolina data center? We can’t say for certain, but it sure looks that way based on an announcement today from several data center industry equipment vendors. Instor and Electrorack said they have completed a project providing tailor-made enclosures for an [...]
Continue reading...Olivier Sanche, head of Apple’s North Carolina Data Center dead at 41
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
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Mike Manos of Loose Bolts writes on Olivier Sanche who passed away from a heart attack this Thanksgiving weekend. The data center industry has suffered a huge loss this holiday weekend with the passing of Olivier Sanche, head of Apple’s Data Center program. He was an incredibly thoughtful man, a great father and husband, and [...]
Continue reading...Report – Apple may double size of North Carolina data center
Friday, October 22, 2010
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Apple’s Data Center in NC is a behemoth, measures in at 500,00 square feet, and is one of the largest data centers anywhere on earth. But there’s more to this baby than mere size as Apple has plans to invest more than one billion dollars into the data center, a dollar amount which surpasses the [...]
Continue reading...Apple paid $1.7 million for less than 1 acre of land for its North Carolina Data Center
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
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For the past few months, Apple has been ramping up activity in anticipation of opening up its planned 500,000 square foot data center in North Carolina, one of the largest of its kind in the world. All told, Apple is planning to invest approximately $1 billion into the data center, a dollar amount which easily [...]
Continue reading...Apple ramps up hiring at North Carolina data center
Friday, March 26, 2010
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9to5Mac reports that Apple is ramping up the list of available positions for its new and massive data center in North Carolina. Some of the new positions Apple is seeking include a Data Center Mechanical Technician, a Data Center Electrical Technician, a Data Center Site Coordinator, and a Data Center Site Services Manager. Apple’s Data [...]
Continue reading...Aerial video footage of Apple’s new Data Center in North Carolina
Monday, February 22, 2010
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Apple’s is in the midst of setting up an impressively large 500,000 square foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina, making it nearly 5 times larger than Apple’s data center in Newark, California. The size of Apple’s new data center makes it one of the biggest in the world, and the $1 billion its investing in the site [...]
Continue reading...Apple’s purchase of Lala suggests Apple is making a huge push into cloud-computing
Sunday, December 6, 2009
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Apple recently finalized a deal to acquire Lala, a four year old startup that lets users purchase and download songs or stream them from the cloud at a rate of $0.10 per song. The purchase may seem curious on its own, but may be a part of Apple’s broader efforts to make a concerted push [...]
Continue reading...Is Apple making a push for cloud computing with its new “big-ass” data center?
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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Earlier this week, we reported that Apple recently hired a former eBay Data Center executive to head up operations at its planned 500,00 square foot data center in Maiden, North Carolina. But the extremely large space Apple has in the works begs the question – what exactly is Apple planning to do with such a [...]
Continue reading...Apple hires former eBay executive as new Director of Global Data Center Operations
Sunday, August 16, 2009
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Apple recently hired former eBay Data Center executive Olivier Sanche to take on the role of Apple’s Director of Global Data Center Operations. The timing of the hire isn’t coincidental (then again, are they ever?) in light of Apple’s recent decision to open an enormous $1 billion data center in Maiden, North Carolina. Dave Ohara [...]
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Monday, December 5, 2011
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