Just thinking – couldn't this be a temporary pre-launch solution because Apple's huge NC data center isn't fully operational yet?
Me think so. If not what's the point of a hugh data center?
Guess What: iCloud Uses Windows Azure Services For Hosting Data
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#12Wouldn't this make a successful iCloud even more embarrassing for Microsoft? They have the technology, but can't market it or make it easy for consumers to use?
Dollars is dollars.
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#13Just thinking – couldn't this be a temporary pre-launch solution because Apple's huge NC data center isn't fully operational yet?
Probably. But, in order to run on Azure, don't things have to be written in C#/.NET? That would suggest that their production stack will also leverage these technologies, potentially on windows (unless Mono over Linux or BSD is actually mature enough for this sort of thing, I wouldn't know)
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#14Just thinking – couldn't this be a temporary pre-launch solution because Apple's huge NC data center isn't fully operational yet?
Probably. But, in order to run on Azure, don't things have to be written in C#/.NET? That would suggest that their production stack will also leverage these technologies, potentially on windows (unless Mono over Linux or BSD is actually mature enough for this sort of thing, I wouldn't know)
> But, in order to run on Azure, don't things have to be written in C#/.NET?
No, not at all. They also have support for Java, Ruby, and PHP.
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#15This seems to be a logical multi-vendor play to me. Especially if Apple's data centers aren't geographically distributed, it needs to get other vendors involved.
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#16Just thinking – couldn't this be a temporary pre-launch solution because Apple's huge NC data center isn't fully operational yet?
Building a datacenter doesn't make you a datacenter expert. I'm not saying that Apple can't do it, just that they're not going to be able to do it as well as Windows or Amazon.
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#17I think there's more to the story here because otherwise there was no point to Apple building the data centers.
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#18Just thinking – couldn't this be a temporary pre-launch solution because Apple's huge NC data center isn't fully operational yet?
Building a datacenter doesn't make you a datacenter expert. I'm not saying that Apple can't do it, just that they're not going to be able to do it as well as Windows or Amazon.
> Building a datacenter doesn't make you a datacenter expert
Actually, you should hire experts before building the datacenter
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Probably. But, in order to run on Azure, don't things have to be written in C#/.NET? That would suggest that their production stack will also leverage these technologies, potentially on windows (unless Mono over Linux or BSD is actually mature enough for this sort of thing, I wouldn't know)
> But, in order to run on Azure, don't things have to be written in C#/.NET? No, not at all. They also have support for Java, Ruby, and PHP.
More precisely, the Azure storage API is HTTP/REST-like. Hence it practically supports any language that has a HTTP stack.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Building a datacenter doesn't make you a datacenter expert. I'm not saying that Apple can't do it, just that they're not going to be able to do it as well as Windows or Amazon.
> Building a datacenter doesn't make you a datacenter expert Actually, you should hire experts before building the datacenter
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