The iTunes cloud rumours have been getting louder over the past few months (especially since the arrival of Amazon Cloud Drive) and now it seems Apple may have snapped up a huge chunk of data storage. The tale comes from the gloriously-focused site StorageNewsletter.com which claims Apple has bought up 12 petabytes of data from Isilon Systems…

Check Out Our Most Recommended

The suggestion is that Apple has snapped up the vast amount of storage (1 petabyte = 1024 terabytes = approximately 252,000 Blu-ray discs worth of data) to store iTunes video and enable the long-awaited iTunes cloud services.

How the rumoured acquisition fits with the now almost-mythically significant new Apple data centre isn’t clear and, given the obscurity of the source, the whole rumour should be taken with a health dab of salt. Fingers-crossed all these iTunes cloud rumours add up to something.

Out TBC | £TBC | Apple (via All Things D)

Be Sociable, Share!
  1. Plasmacluster tech: The fresh air beauty treatment
  2. Replicating dinosaurs with 3D printing
  3. Bookbinding: Always judge a book by its cover

Hot chat, right here!


Our most commented stories right now...