8,000 Mac Mini for a unique data center: Here is the video of the Mac Stadium
Mac Stadium is nothing more than a company that has decided to manage the beauty of 8,000 Mac Mini places all in a Data Center and shared between startups and Fortune 500 companies. The video shot inside it is interesting.
During the last Apple Keynote where the company among other things presented to the whole world the new generation of Mac Mini, a product that since 2014 did not undergo any kind of restyling but that today comes out even stronger with a hardware compartment renewed and ready to destabilize all those who are undecided in the purchase of a fixed product but not too much and a real laptop.
Certainly in the past, the Mac Mini was chosen by many development professionals who used it, and still use it, to create their jobs thanks to the price lower than other Apple machines but especially thanks to its versatility and size so small as to allow positioning in every environment.
During the presentation of Apple’s Mac Mini, we have glimpsed some images of what is referred to as the Mac Stadium or a place where a company manages the beauty of 8,000 Mac Mini in Data Center shared to all types of developers including small startups as well as Fortune 500 companies. During the Apple event, it was not possible to observe short images, but thanks to a Youtuber, Snazzy Labs, it is now possible to tour the company in Las Vegas.
Mac Stadium: what exactly is it?
The Mac Stadium is nothing more than a real meeting place for Mac Mini. Inside there are real walls of Apple device positioned in the rack. The company’s willingness is to offer an infrastructure to other companies. In this case the Mac Mini that are ” chartered ” by developers or companies that do not actually want to buy the device but only use it for a certain period.
The Mac Stadium company was founded in 2013 in Atlanta and now also has offices in Las Vegas and other parts of the world and allows a Mac hosting service that at the moment no one else is able to achieve especially for the number of devices that guarantees a increasing number of power.
In Mac Stadium, you can find not only Mac Mini but also Mac Pro but also iMac Pro and some Xserve. Clearly, the rooms host the devices in an orderly and pre-established manner so that they can be maximized for the surface of the place.
The 8,000 machines do nothing but produce significant quantities of heat and for this reason, the rooms are aired in a meticulous way, especially in order not to run into dangerous situations with data processing.
Interesting then find out how the leadership of the Mac Stadium state a high reliability as the breakdowns and repairs of Mac Pro, for example, are necessary in a very modest percentage with a frequency not significant for the use that is done in the Stadium.
Moreover, it is curious to find out how the machines do not have internal storage units, and this is because Mac Stadium takes advantage of the SAN architecture, ie Storage Area Network is a high-speed transmission network made up exclusively of mass storage devices. Its purpose is to make these storage resources available for any Mac connected to it.
In the structure, there are also some iMac Pro not in high demand, especially due to the lack of approval from VMware to virtualize the servers. In short, a truly 360-degree use for the small Mac Mini now especially with a really important hardware.
- Quad-core i3 8th-Generation Intel Core Processor
- Intel UHD Graphics 630
- 8GB 2666MHz DDR4
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