Apple iCloud to rest roots in Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS

Apple’s much-anticipated iCloud service will reportedly base on Microsoft’s Azure and Amazon’s AWS servers. The Cupertino technology major is to become just a consumer-facing platform, not the provider of cloud server, rumors suggest. Despite the rumors are spreading over the Web, no companies have confirmed or rejected the reports yet. According to The Register, Apple has directed both Microsoft and Amazon not to talk about the deal in public.

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Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS are two leading hosting services in the world. Apple has reportedly decided to choose those companies to provide consistent performance in its iCloud services. It is evidently Apple’s strategy to make deal with the two companies instead of one. According to analysts, Apple might have taken such as step not to become hostage to one service provider.

The iCloud data will be striped between Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, rumors said. Apple has promised to avoid the company’s faults while launching its MobileMe cloud service some years back. A deal with the two hosting services might be part of the company’s efforts to stay away from the previous errors. According to the former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, Apple iCloud will work without any initial hiccups. “It all just works”, said the then Apple CEO at WWDC 2011 in June.

Some reports point out that both Microsoft and Amazon are excited in their deal with Apple, the famous iPhone and iPad manufacturer. Microsoft has been constantly trying to prove to other developers that its Azure service is good platform. For the Redmond-based software giant, the deal with Apple is now a 'validation of Azure'. Thanks to the deal with Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are looking ahead to gain some reputation for their hosting services.

Apple is to roll out its iCloud cloud-based media service this fall along with iOS 5, the upcoming version of the company’s mobile software. The service is meant to store music, images and documents in cloud. All Apple devices including Mac computers will support this state-of-the-art cloud service from Apple. According to Steve Jobs, who introduced the service at WWDC 2011, iCloud is meant to automatically store the data from iDevices and Macs. They will be stored in cloud servers for ubiquitous usage.

The cloud service will push the contents to all iDevices and Mac computers whenever the user wants to retrieve them. Users can simply access to the contents stored in iCloud from anywhere and anytime. Apple iCloud is expected to become a game-changer in cloud computing, which is in its budding stage, however. Analysts have been keenly reviewing the service since its announcement in June. Of course, Apple users are quite enthusiastic to experience iCloud service.

Via: TheRegister