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Data Center Design:
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Policy: Cap and Trade, Carbon Footprint, Carbon Reduction Commitment, Carbon Tax, Emissions
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Application: Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Technology: Microblogging, Networking, Servers, Storage, Supercomputer
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“ We will continue to work with NTT America to operate our current footprint, and plan to bring additional Twitter managed data centers online over the next 24 months. ”
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Twitter Picks Utah for New Data Center
Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010) Cloud Computing , Microblogging
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Twitter will build its first custom data center in the Salt Lake City market, which will allow the microblogging service to better manage its growth and “unique power and cooling needs,” the company said yesterday.
The construction project marks the next phase in the growth of Twitter, and comes as the company is experiencing a series of outages and challenges with its infrastructure and performance. The announcement also reinforces the attractiveness of Salt Lake City as an emerging data center hub. Twitter is the third high-profile technology company to build a major data center in Salt Lake City, following the lead of eBay, Oracle Corp. and the NSA.
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