Apple will bring more storage capacity to supports iTunes video download. Apple order the storge equipment to Isilon System which well-known for large-data management project. Reported, Apple ordered 12 petabytes of Storage. How much is 12 Petabytes?
Of course petabyte is a huge data scale. A petabyte is 1024 terabytes. Imagine, to store a petabyte of data on dual-layer Blu-ray discs (50 GB each), you need almost 21,000 discs to fit it all. Yes, it's a so huge data scale. And Apple just bought 12 of those. Amazing!
Before launch the 12 Petabytes storage, now Apple is still in the process of preparing its North Caroline data center, which will go online this spring. Besides that, Apple also has an existing data center facility in Newark, California. This data center purchased in 2006. The new North Carolina facility, is said to be 500,000 square feet and can squeeze somewhere between 95,000 to 120,000 servers.
With this plan to increase storage capacity up to 12 Petabytes, Apple estimated will spent $2.6 billion of It assets this year. On 2010, Apple spent an estimated $1.7 billion on IT assets during fiscal in the year. We will see. Just keep on eye on our updated info!
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