Twitter’s data center mystery deepens

GigaOM (Jun 24 2011) Cloud Computing , Microblogging

1. Updated. What’s up with Twitter’s data center strategy? Twitter’s plans are reportedly in disarray according to sources I spoke with yesterday at our Structure 2011 conference in San Francisco. Two people shared that the microblogging service, which announced plans to build a Utah data center back in July 2010, will abandon the site entirely and move its servers to a data center in Sacramento, Calif. I’ve reached out to Twitter for comment, but if this is true, it wouldn’t come as a surprise to those closely watching Twitter’s infrastructure moves. Update: Twitter spokeswoman Carolyn Penner said via email that Twitter has not abandoned the Utah site and added, “I can also confirm that we have multiple sites, but I won’t go into further detail.” (Read Full Article)

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