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dillona on June 15, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Guess What: iCloud Uses Windows Azure Services For...

There is opensource software (via OpenStack) to run a distributed blob store like this at scale.

My guess is Apple just doesn't want the hassle of dealing with it and/or this is temporary while they get their hardware set up

cageface on June 15, 2011 [–]

That's like saying that Google's prowess with map-reduce is irrelevant because we also have Hadoop. This stuff is very hard to get right and nobody does it better than Google.

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