Is Apple About to Unleash the iDataCenter?

Data Center Knowledge (Sep 1 2010) Cloud Computing

1. Steve Jobs’ keynotes have been a boon to technology blogs, but have historically wreaked havoc with uptime at MacWorldExpo and Twitter web sites. Perhaps not so much anymore. Apple announced last night that it would live stream video coverage of today’s highly-anticipated product announcement (to Mac users, anyway). Hmmm … that sounds like that might require some serious infrastructure. Leander Kahney at Cult of Mac writes that today’s webcast will be used to load test the capabilities of Apple’s enormous new iDataCenter in North Carolina. “The broadcast will likely involve hundreds of thousands of simultaneous live video streams, maybe more,” Leander writes, citing an Apple source who says the goal is to monitor traffic load and quality. (Read Full Article)

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