Apple Reportedly Using Chinese Server Supplier to Migrate iCloud Service

[gsiener]

This is odd, given the recent news that Apple and Google just struck a rather large deal to move iCloud onto Google Cloud[1].

http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/300080062/cloud-makes-for-stra...

[Scarbutt]

Not odd, would be dumb of Apple won't to rely on a single provider.

[rb808]

Are there any motherboards that are not made in China (or Taiwan)? Serious question.

[innocentoldguy]

I think Supermicro makes motherboards in the United States, and I believe at least some of Intel's boards are made here as well.

[ryao]

Here is a fun fact. Apple and Inspur are both UNIX vendors.

It is not news that Apple has given up on Mac OS X as a UNIX server platform, but seeing one UNIX vendor outsource to another UNIX vendor at this level is still weird.

[leonroy]

> It is not news that Apple has given up on Mac OS X as a UNIX server platform.

Indeed. Having wasted many a weekend trying to get OS X Server working with portable homes, MCX preferences or the so called Golden Triangle of Active Directory and Open Directory I was left with the distinct impression that OS X Server is most definitely the most neglected product in the Apple stable.

I guess Steve Jobs' famous mantra, to say 'no' to a hundred things so Apple can say 'yes' to the one is very much apparent in this case. It's admirable in a way - that unlike Microsoft, Apple won't dogfood their server product if there's something which better meets their needs already out there.

[doener]

>It is not news that Apple has given up on Mac OS X as a UNIX server platform, but seeing one UNIX vendor outsource to another UNIX vendor at this level is still weird.

Had Apple ever used OS X for iCloud?

[nodesocket]

Just because the hardware is made there does not mean data is not encrypted in transit and at rest.

[Learn2win]

Why is this a problem?

[T-Winsnes]

I'm tagging on to this, not being from the US or china, I can't see how one is worse than the other. The idea that china is a bad guy while the us is a good guy doesn't really make sense to me, they both does what is in the best interest of themselves.

[zxcvcxz]

Some people think some countries shouldn't handle their information at all. They really shouldn't store their data in the cloud if they're concerned about state sponsored spying though.

[exabrial]

They say security is only for the paranoid. But wow, I never thought it would come to this level!

I'm curious, why isn't apple producing their own servers? They had XServe back in the good old days...

[dcip6s]

What could possibly go wrong? ;)