3 ms·

What does Apple use inside their datacenters? Any one know?

• spitfire 16y ago
  It always felt to me like Apple was targeting small shops and departmental servers. I've never heard of anyone having a real xserve datacenter, but I've heard of tons of companies running on xserves for infrastructure.
  • TheCondor 16y ago
    Yeah, OSX Server is perfect for something like that. I was just curious, I sort of figured iTunes ran on XServes in various data centers.
    • jonhendry 16y ago
      I doubt Apple would limit their internal technology to the configurations they offer on the market. They're free to run OS X Server on non-Apple hardware, even if buyers aren't supposed to, and wouldn't have any trouble getting OS support. They could use off-the-shelf commodity-priced rack hardware, or they could do like Google and have custom rack PCs made to spec. Or they could virtualize OS X. And they're free to run WebObjects on non-Apple hardware. (Actually, I think anyone can do that, because it's Java.)
      • semanticist 16y ago
        I don't think they use Mac OS X Server that widely. We were told their deployment platform was Oracle Linux, which is a rebranded version of RHEL.
• Andrewski 16y ago
  A combination of IBM and Sun / SNOracle.