At the end of his WWDC keynote on Monday, Steve Jobs showed some pictures of the inside of Apple's huge new $500 million data center in North Carolina. The facility is going to be used to store data for the new iCloud backup service.
Storage analysts Stephen Foskett ook a look to try and figure out who supplied the gear to Apple. Here were the lucky vendors.
Terradata. This picture shows at least 30 Terradata Extreme Data Appliances, which are used to crunch massive amounts of data:
HP. Foskett counted at least 100 HP rack servers in this shot:
NetApp. Foskett thought he saw a FAS620 in lower-right hand corner above. Each one of these bad boys can store up to 3 terabytes of data -- that's equal to about 3,100,000 GB. The following picture has some disk shelves for the NetApp gear:
This shot of the exterior gives some idea how huge the place is. See those tiny dots in the circle? Those are two people standing on the roof.
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