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I’ve never worked for Apple, but I can only imagine what a disaster their internal IT situation must be given that they use their software nearly exclusively in
by avalys 5y ago
I’ve never worked for Apple, but I can only imagine what a disaster their internal IT situation must be given that they use their software nearly exclusively internally but spend almost no effort on enterprise functionality or even basic stability, maintenance and documentation of the limited enterprise features that exist.
The big tech company I do work for uses plenty of Apple hardware, but employs the equivalent of a mid-size startup in teams building internal solutions for gaps in the Apple stack.
- yalogin 5y agoThis is very interesting. I never thought of the enterprise side of things. Can you tell me a bit more about what these gaps are?
- amelius 5y agoThe problems start with the AppleID that you have to share with colleagues ...
- easton 5y agoYou don't need to do that. Buy apps through Apple Business Manager, deploy via MDM. In fact, that's probably a violation of the license agreement, since purchased apps on a single Apple ID are only really supposed to be used by one person (or a family).
- amelius 5y agoThat seems to hold only for new versions of their hardware/software.
- alar44 5y agoEverything in the enterprise env is likely MS based. Active directory, Office, fileshares, etc. I don't even try to integrate Mac's with that stuff, they are on an island.
- Macha 5y agoIn this case, I believe Apple largely uses Linux for their server use cases.
- Inseighn1 5y agoNot true. I worked for HPE for about 3 years and Apple was one of our largest customers. This was around 2014-2017ish and AFAIK, most of their internal systems were HPE hardware running Linux.
- imwillofficial 5y ago"they use their software nearly exclusively internally" This isn't true.
- protomyth 5y agoAnyone who has tried to use their server products knows that Apple doesn't use them themselves for running the company. Heck, look at their opensource software and you can tell the teams are using Linux boxes.
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- scarface74 5y agoAnother anecdote: I work for a BigTech cloud provider and our internal applications can’t stand up to nearly the load that our external customer facing services can.
- linspace 5y agoThe solution is obvious: cloud providers should mutually serve each other
- scarface74 5y agoThere were plenty of jokes internally that we should go “multi-cloud”.
- smm11 5y agoI heard from someone in Apple that Siri, as least at the time, was on Oracle databases on Dell Blade servers.
- avidphantasm 5y agoI suspect that every large company's internal IT is a disaster. I say this having worked for a large IT consulting firm that did lots of M&A. Nothing ever got fully integrated, lots of dangling legacy systems.