The Google infrastructure now powers a chunk of icloud.
I don't see apple killing the revenue stream that feeds their bottomless pool of capacity.
I don't see apple killing the revenue stream that feeds their bottomless pool of capacity.
Have been wondering for a while they are building an internal cloud e.g. using FoundationDB acquisition as their DBaaS.
Infighting Slows Apple’s Cloud Engineering Efforts: http://go.theinformation.com/2c8e01
> Two engineering teams working on new internal cloud-computing infrastructure to power Apple’s Web services are in open conflict, the people say. Already, the infighting has sparked at least one key employee departure, with more expected soon.
Inside Apple’s Cloud Infrastructure Troubles: http://go.theinformation.com/d716c4
> Despite years of trying, Apple has failed to develop infrastructure to handle traffic for its Internet services, which include iTunes, Apple Maps, iMessage and backups of images and videos stored on the iPhone.