Archive for April, 2011

Apple Job Posting for Cloud Services

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Apple is looking for a full time Engineer to join it’s team working on the Apple cloud hosting product. This position would be to join a “small team” that is working on something no less audacious than “the future of cloud services at Apple!” In a job posting, the company said that this team will be, ” writing the software [that] forms the foundation for some of our most exciting new products and services.”

The most recent cloud-based rumors to circulate about Apple include the company working on a video streaming service, a music streaming service, and some form of enhanced online locker for music and/or video files.

Apple is also known to keep its development teams small, at least compared to some of its competitors, and today’s job posting (which was discovered by AppleInsider) suggests that this new development team will be making the tools used by other projects at Apple.

The job listing didn’t reveal anything about Apple’s specific plans for future web applications or services. The ideal candidate will likely be deeply involved with building internal systems for sharing data across Apple’s family of cloud products. By asking for applicants that can collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams and have experience constructing highly scalable software powered by a variety of data management systems, it looks like the Cupertino-based company wishes to add muscle to the core APIs that power its online products and services.

Apple currently offers a suite of web products and services called MobileMe for US$99.00 per year. Many, including The Wall Street Journal, speculate the company plans to dramatically enhance these services later this year. There’s also the beta iWork.com, which has been in beta since 2009.

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Intro to the Facebook “Open Compute Project”

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Today Facebook is opening it’s doors to all of us in the hosting world to see how they have been scaling their data center.  The show us that the PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) in Facebook’s data center (Prineville) is much more efficient than the industry average (1.07 versus 1.5). according to the chart below provided my Facebook’s Data Center Team

“We think sharing this will help the ecosystem grow,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. “

We think there will be a lot of demand for this,” he continues. He notes that the Facebook team has been working on all of this for over a year.

Zuckerberg then introduced Jonathan Heiliger, the head of operations and the overseer of the Open Compute Project. Heiliger spoke about the way most companies lease space in a datacenter, and how Facebook was in that position for seven years. Then they realized they could do better. So they opened their own datacenter in Oregon. And now they’re building a second one — again, with their own servers as well.

I’ll be interesting to see how many businesses take advantage of this in the future.

 

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Tuesday, April 5th, 2011

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