Calligo creates an offshore cloud (with a cameo from Nicira)

Explore GigaOM (May 16 2012) Cloud Computing

Can a niche player build a business offering an offshore cloud to rival Amazon's infrastructure as a service? Calligo wants to try. The startup has formed on the Channel Islands ......are kept in place. Much like Google’s use of software defined networks between its data centers, or NTT’s experiments in creating a seamless failover environment spread between multiple data centers in J... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute one year later. Bigger, badder and less disruptive than we thought.

Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...he private cloud that it’s building using Open Compute hardware. Fidelity will be one use case, and NTT, the data center provider is another. NTT has built a cloud using Open Compute hardware and OpenStack, creating an entirely open hardware inf...... OCP gear direct to customers. Quanta’s business is aimed at selling gear to the likes of Facebook, Amazon(a amzn) and other IT buyers who know exactly ... (Read Full Article)

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A New Net

Explore Technology Review (Feb 6 2012) Cloud Computing , Networking

...isticated. Yet today, even with seemingly cost-effective cloud services available from the likes of Amazon, most companies still choose to operate their own computing resources—whether for corporate e-mail ...... them large companies that offer services over the Internet. Several, such as Rackspace and Japan's NTT, the world's second-largest telecommunications provider, rent out clouds to other companies, a mode... (Read Full Article)

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Tech Titans Back OpenFlow Networking Standard

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 22 2011) Networking

... Broadcom, Ciena, Riverbed Technology, Force10, Citrix, Dell, Ericsson, IBM, Marvell, NEC, Netgear, NTT and VMware. “With broad industry support from technology leaders and networking experts, the ONF br......lar lines. The biggest thing about the data center is the scale and the detailed need for control.” Amazon Web Services is not among the ONF members. But Amazon researcher James Hamilton has been a prominent voices in calling for a better ... (Read Full Article)

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Twitter Completes Data Center Migration

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Mar 21 2011) Cloud Computing , Microblogging

... center site. Twitter has been managing its infrastructure through a managed hosting agreement with NTT America, which operates several data centers in Silicon Valley, and has used Amazon’s cloud computing services to store and deploy images, including profile pictures. But Twitter said... (Read Full Article)

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Data Centers: For When The Cloud is Not Enough

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 22 2010) Cloud Computing

...l Cozzatti echoed that point in announcing the company’s data center plans. Twitter previously used NTT America and Amazon Web Services to its infrastructure. “Importantly, having our own data center will give us the flexi... (Read Full Article)

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Major Data Center Outages of 2009

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 16 2009) Power and Cooling

...restoring service. The attacks continued for weeks as Twitter worked with its data center provider, NTT America, to strengthen its defenses. Amazon Cloud Glitches: One of the top technology trends on Twitter in 2009 was the #amazonfail hashtag.  W... (Read Full Article)

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How Much of Twitter’s $100M is for Servers?

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Sep 28 2009) Microblogging

...e to support its rapid growth. Massive Scalability Never Cheap By outsourcing its infrastructure to NTT America and Amazon Web Services, Twitter has undoubtedly spent far less on infrastructure than if it built its own dat... (Read Full Article)

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