{"id":2512,"date":"2011-06-08T18:01:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T22:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2011-06-08T18:01:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T22:01:41","slug":"the-nitty-gritty-on-apples-new-server-farm-architecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/06\/08\/the-nitty-gritty-on-apples-new-server-farm-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 The Nitty Gritty on Apple’s New Server Farm Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

GigaOM ROCKED this report<\/a>:<\/p>\n

What\u2019s certain is that Apple didn\u2019t approach its iCloud infrastructure build with a light wallet or the mindset that it has to build its own gear and software like Google and Facebook have done. As Jobs said during his keynote, \u201cIt\u2019s full of stuff. Full of expensive stuff.\u201d Indeed, it cost Apple\u00a0$500<\/del> $1 billion. Apple\u2019s customers can complain about iCloud\u2019s features, but it doesn\u2019t look like they complain too much about Apple\u2019s investment in the infrastructure that supports it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What was interesting but not surprising is Apple doesn’t appear to have used any of their own server systems for this. I’m sure there are a few Xserves and Mac Pros laying around but the focus is not Mac OS X server or Apple hardware.<\/p>\n

Apple has essentially killed Xserve so this isn’t surprising but, well a part of me wishes Apple would have rocked this with their own gear. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GigaOM ROCKED this report: What\u2019s certain is that Apple didn\u2019t approach its iCloud infrastructure build with a light…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Ew","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1091,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2010\/10\/30\/apples-mac-os-x-marketing-kind-of-disappointing\/","url_meta":{"origin":2512,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Apple’s Mac OS X Marketing…Kind of Disappointing","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"October 30, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I know that Apple is just getting started. 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