(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — NTT America’s (www.nttamerica.com) decision to lease 15,000-square-foot data center in Santa Clara, which the WHIR reported Monday, was driven by the explosive growth of Twitter (www.twitter.com) according to a report by Data Center Knowledge.
The company cites the microblogging service’s “rapidly growing customer demand” for data center resources as the main reason for the new Santa Clara data center.
NTT America provides IT infrastructure services to Twitter through a managed hosting agreement.
Twitter has grown significantly in the past year, showing a 752 percent traffic growth in 2008, before exploding in the first half of 2009 with its crossover into the mainstream.
Back in June, NTT America chief operating officer Kazuhiro Gomi said that the enormous amount of traffic created by Twitter is “basically eating up a lot of [NTT America's] data center network resources, especially the segment where Twitter is hosted.” Meanwhile, “other customers are riding on the same segment” in NTT’s San Jose data center, Gomi said.
NTT America was to undergo a “critical network upgrade” in June, which was postponed when Twitter become an integral form of communciations following the elections in Iran.
Biz Stone of Twitter commended NTT America at the time for its support, acknowledging that the company was “taking a huge risk not just for Twitter but also the other services they support worldwide.”
Optimal systems performance is maintained by fully redundant water cooling systems coupled with advanced humidity and temperature controls. Continuous monitoring ensures that all systems are fully operational.
Last month, Twitter, along with Facebook and LiveJournal suffered brief outages early Thursday morning after being hit by a denial-of-service attack.
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