Twitter data centre coming this fall

NEW YORK, USA: After Facebook, it's now Twitter's turn to build an own data centre.

As per Twitter's blog, the messaging centre, which is adding over 300,000 people on an average day, has decided to build its own data centre by this fall.

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The blog read, "Later this year, Twitter is moving our technical operations infrastructure into a new, custom-built data centre in the Salt Lake City area.

Twitter also adds that it will continue to work with NTT America to operate current footprint, and plan to bring additional Twitter managed data centers online over the next 24 months.

John Adams, lead engineer for application services, Twitter, in a speech last month at the O'Reilly Velocity conference, had noted that keeping pace with growing user base is becoming very complex.

Thus having a dedicated data centres will give it more capacity to accommodate this growth in users and activity on Twitter, the blog adds.

Moreover, with this data centre Twitter will have full control over network and systems configuration, with a much larger footprint in a building designed specifically around unique power and cooling needs.

The data center will house a mixed-vendor environment for servers running open source OS and applications. Twitter will be able to define and manage to a finer grained SLA on the service as we are managing and monitoring at all layers