Apple’s ‘Big-A ’ Data Center

苹果公司(Apple)计划在北卡罗来纳州兴建一个大型数据中心，一位数据中心专家表示，这个数据中心的超大规模可能暗示了苹果下一个重要项目。Associated PressOS X高级副总裁Bertrand Serlet 6月份在苹果公司全球研发者大会上宣讲Snow Leopard在北卡罗来纳州推出相关税务优惠条件后，苹果公司于6月份宣布了投资十亿美元的数据中心项目，但此后便很少提及这一项目。苹果公司一位发言人周三表示，我们计划未来数周开始兴建在北卡罗来纳州梅登的新数据中心，但她拒绝进一步发表评论。在接受热门博客Cult of Mac采访时，行业刊物《Data Center Knowledge》编辑里奇•米勒(Rich Miller)表示，苹果这个数据中心单栋建筑的占地规模达到了50万平方英尺，是全球最大的数据中心之一。这算的上是一个超级规模的数据中心了。米勒补充说，从这个数据中心的超大规模来看，苹果可能正在考虑一个需要大量基础设施支持的云计算项目。那些正在兴建最大规模数据中心的公司一般都在云计算方面拥有巨大野心。米勒此前在《Data Center Knowledge》发表文章指出，北卡罗来纳州梅登的这个数据中心规模几乎是苹果在加州纽瓦克数据中心的五倍。Andrew LaVallee相关阅读苹果电脑怎样升级为新版操作系统？ 2009-08-19苹果将推出速度更快的新操作系统 2009-08-12谷歌CEO施密特辞去苹果公司董事之职 2009-08-04苹果更新iphone保护程序 2009-08-03


Apple’s plans to build a North Carolina data center will result in a massive facility that could signal its next big initiative, one data-center expert says.The company announced the billion-dollar project in June, following state tax incentives aimed at it, but has said little about its goals since. On Wednesday, an Apple spokeswoman said, “We’re looking forward to beginning construction on our new data center in Maiden, N.C., in the coming weeks,” but declined further comment.In an interview with Cult of Mac, Rich Miller, editor of trade publication Data Center Knowledge, said that site plans indicate that Apple’s center will be some 500,000 square feet in one building, making it one of the largest of its kind. “This would qualify as a big-a  data center,” he said.Its size hints that Apple may be considering an infrastructure-intensive cloud-computing initiative, he added. “The companies that are building the biggest data centers tend to also have the biggest cloud ambitions.”In a previous Data Center Knowledge article, Mr. Miller noted that the Maiden center will be nearly five times the size of Apple’s Newark, Calif., facility.Andrew LaVallee