http://gigaom.com/2011/03/21/twitter-moves-into-data-center-goodbye-fail-whale/ Sat, 25 May 2013 15:07:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2011/03/21/twitter-moves-into-data-center-goodbye-fail-whale/#comment-611384 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:15:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=320108#comment-611384 Derrick, I think your article highlights some important trends in large scale service deployments. As a service grows, the need for high availability and excellent performance becomes business critical. Both Twitter and Facebook built their own data centers, incorporating flash memory and new custom data access technologies to insure this excellent quality of service rather than trying to run it in the cloud. Smaller growing companies also need high availability and excellent performance, along with the power and cost savings, and advances in flash memory-based standard databases should enable them to realize these benefits without having to fund the large scale development of custom infrastructure.

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