“Apple is expanding its Internet infrastructure with a new data center in Silicon Valley, as it prepares to bring additional server and storage capacity online later this year. The new server space, housed in a third-party facility, will be smaller than the huge iDataCenter that Apple has built in North Carolina,” Rich Miller reports for Data Center Knowledge.
“The new data center will provide additional IT capacity at a time when Apple is rumored to be developing new cloud computing services delivering streaming media, which could include music, video and file storage. Apple has reportedly acquired the domain name iCloud.com for use with a new service,” Miller reports. “In April, Apple signed a seven-year lease for 2.28 megawatts of critical power load in a new data center being built in Santa Clara, Calif. by DuPont Fabros Technology (DFT), a leading developer of wholesale data center space. The lease is scheduled to commence in the third quarter (July to September), when the building opens.”
Miller reports, “DuPont Fabros disclosed the Santa Clara lease in its first quarter earnings, but did not reveal the name of the tenant, which is consistent with its policies. In a conference call with analysts, company executives described the tenant as a ‘Fortune 50 technology company with excellent credit.’ Multiple industry sources have since confirmed that the tenant is Apple.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lava_Head_UK” for the heads up.]
Fortune 50 tech company with excellent credit? THat has to be one heck of a short list.
Oh yeah, if it is the number 1 technology company, it really doesn’t matter what Fortune number youu give.
Short list? Yeah, about 50 he he
The other shoe just dropped.
when building data centers, you always build them in pairs. That way if one goes down, the you have a back up center to keep information safe and alive. The NC datacenter was only half the story. This still needs to come up fully before the whole story is out.
Actually they are building 2 in NC. The one they’re building here appears to be general expansion of corporate IT facilities.
Hm. Right now iCloud.com redirects to
CloudMe, a service like DropBox. And their whois data is interesting:
Record expires on 21-Mar-2021.
Record created on 04-Apr-2011.
Apple bought the icloud.com from Xcerion. The service Xcerion offers used to be at icloud.com and is now at cloudme.com. As part of the deal, Xcerion probably has use of icloud.com for some period of time, to allow their customers to learn of the change and redirect themselves to cloudme.com. What you observed is part of that and will come to an end.
http://www.webpronews.com/apple-icloud-on-the-way-2011-04