Tag Archives: utah

July, 2010

• 22 July

  Twitter to open Utah data center later this year

  

  To help keep up with ever-increasing traffic, Twitter is set to open up a new custom-built data center in Utah later this year. Considering 300,000 new Twitter users log on every day, the site desperately needs to expand its capacity. The data center is being built especially for Twitter’s needs. …

October, 2009

• 27 October

  Utah uses IP addresses to improve website users' experience

  Lately all the talk about IP addresses around here has dealt with IPv4 depletion. As the number of addresses available shrinks daily, the State of Utah is putting the IP system to good use. Using a technology known as GeoIP, the state is able to customize its website based on …

July, 2009

• 2 July

  NSA to build £978 million data center

  The National Security Administration has announced plans to build a new data center up to 1-million square feet in size in Fort Williams, Utah. The total cost of the project will be £978 million ($1.6 billion USD). The megalopolis will be built in two phases. The first, which is set …