{"id":23208,"date":"2018-02-27T11:35:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T11:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=23208"},"modified":"2018-02-27T11:35:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T11:35:48","slug":"apple-uses-rival-googles-servers-to-store-icloud-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/apple-uses-rival-googles-servers-to-store-icloud-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple uses rival Google\u2019s servers to store iCloud data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Apple for the first time has admitted that it uses Google\u2019s cloud servers for data storage for its iCloud services.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The company made the revelation in its latest iOS Security document which was uploaded on its website. \u201cThe disclosure is fresh evidence that Google\u2019s cloud has been picking up usage as it looks to catch up with Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud infrastructure business,\u201d CNBC reported late Monday.<\/p>\n<p>There have been some reports on Google\u2019s iCloud win in 2016 but Apple never provided confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor years the document contained language indicating that iCloud services were relying on remote data storage systems from Amazon Web Services, as well as Microsoft\u2019s Azure,\u201d the report added.<\/p>\n<p>Apple on its website says, \u201ciCloud stores a user\u2019s contacts, calendars, photos, documents, and more and keeps the information up to date across all of their devices, automatically. iCloud can also be used by third-party apps to store and sync documents as well as key values for app data as defined by the developer. Users set up iCloud by signing in with an Apple ID and choosing which services they would like to use. iCloud features, including My Photo Stream, iCloud Drive, and iCloud Backup, can be disabled by IT administrators via MDM configuration profiles. The service is agnostic about what is being stored and handles all file content the same way, as a collection of bytes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach file is broken into chunks and encrypted by iCloud using AES-128 and a key derived from each chunk\u2019s contents that utilizes SHA-256. The keys and the file\u2019s metadata are stored by Apple in the user\u2019s iCloud account. The encrypted chunks of the file are stored, without any user-identifying information, using third-party storage services, such as S3 and Google Cloud Platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>S3 here is Amazon Web Services (AWS). Earlier, the document just mentioned S3 and Microsoft\u2019s popular Azure platform, which is now missing from the updated one.<\/p>\n<p>The latest iOS Security document which gives a detailed explanation of the technology choices it makes to keep its users from getting hacked, the company disclosed it\u2019s using Google\u2019s Cloud-computing infrastructure to store iCloud data such as photos, files and data backup.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is no indication if Apple is also relying on Google for additional computing work.<\/p>\n<p>When phones powered by Google\u2019s Android software appeared on the market, Apple co-founder and then-CEO Steve Jobs was famously outraged by their similarity to Apple\u2019s competing iOS, according to CNET.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple for the first time has admitted that it uses Google\u2019s cloud servers for data storage for its iCloud services. 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