What technology is inside Apple’s massive new data center

“What Internet magic lurks inside Apple’s massive new data center in North Carolina? The company isn’t saying, even as it confirmed [recently] that the facility will be coming online by the end of the year,” Rich Miller reports for Data Center Knowledge. “But job postings provide some broad details about the hardware and software that will be powering the new iDataCenter, much of which is provided by companies other than Apple.”

MacDailyNews Note: This Data Center Knowledge article was originally posted on July 21, 2010. Somehow, we missed it the first time around. If you did, too, here you go!

Miller continues, “The $1 billion data center will be about 500,000 square feet, nearly five times the size of Apple’s existing 109,000 square foot Newark, Calif. facility.”

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Here are some factoids gleaned from Apple’s job postings:
• Apple says that its “data center environment consists of MacOS X, IBM/AIX, Linux and SUN/Solaris systems.”
• The Maiden facility will have a “heavy emphasis” on high availability technologies, including IBM’s HACMP and HAGEO solutions for high-availability clusters, Veritas Cluster Server, and Oracle’s DataGuard and Real Application Clusters.
• Job candidates are also asked to be familiar with storage systems using IBM, NetApp and Data Domain, and data warehousing systems from Teradata.
• Networking positions require a familiarity with Brocade and Qlogic switches.

Read more in the full article, which also contains links to related coverage of Apple’s NC data center, here.