[Fed-Talk] Atomic Fiction, clouds, & Xserve
[Fed-Talk] Atomic Fiction, clouds, & Xserve
- Subject: [Fed-Talk] Atomic Fiction, clouds, & Xserve
- From: Todd Heberlein <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:13:28 -0800
One of my new favorite web pages is Apple's status page:
Apple Services, Stores, and iCloud
http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
Not only have I found it useful determine why <X> doesn't work (at least it lets me eliminate a potential source of a problem), but it reminds me how Apple is increasingly moving into cloud-based services.
Then the other day Bloomberg TV ran this story:
SFXs Studio `Atomic Fiction' Heads to the Cloud
http://www.bloomberg.com/video/sfxs-studio-atomic-fiction-heads-to-the-cloud-xXLIhWJjRVeiTmqWG_xRfg.html
Lots of Macs in the story, but the key is that this CGI shop didn't have a render farm. They outsourced that to Amazon.
My takeaway on infrastructure trends:
Start-up 1.0: Sun hardware, Solaris OS, Oracle DB
Start-up 2.0: Low-cost Intel hardware, LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)
Start-up 3.0: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
I'm guessing Apple saw this trend and felt there was no longer a growth story for in-house, rack-based servers, so Xserve got the axe :(.
It should be interesting how Apple's cloud services grow over the next few years. And, as Apple's systems become increasingly dependent on their cloud services, I wonder how this will affect government groups' ability to purchase Apple systems?
Todd
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