How many servers do you think....

[daneoni]

are required to power the whole Apple empire. They have a host of international sites which are quite extensive, music and video download stores, they'll also maintain financial records as well as dedicated servers to manage R&D projects. Im guessing quite alot. They must have this bunker loaded with Xserves right?, must store around 500 terabytes of data at least?

Just a random topic i thought i'd throw out there

 

[Dane D.]

Interesting thought, daneoni. Add to that, what system or systems are they running? What about backup and archiving? The number of staff to maintain such a setup? The power consumption? The list could get long real fast when you stop and think about it.

 

[dmw007]

Not sure how many, but I would assume that the number would be quite massive.

 

[bigandy]

They did buy that huge data centre in February...

https://www.macrumors.com/pages/2006/02/20060227183355.shtml

And Tier IV... *drools*


There was a lot of talk of that being used for iTMS Movies/Music, but I think it may have been just so they could put everything in one place

 

[0003838]

but I think it may have been just so they could put everything in one place

I wouldn't think they would put everything in one place in the interest of redundancy.

Due to the industry I'm involved with I've been in a very high level data center and in the co-managed halls were Microsoft equipment.

I wish i could go into more detail about what i seen and the measures they have in place, its was simply amazing!

 

[dizastor]

They run the entire empire off of a g4 Mac Mini running 10.4 server.

 

[Patch^]

They run the entire empire off of a g4 Mac Mini running 10.4 server.

Tis true, I have seen it!