February 16, 2008 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) – Chicago Twitter has chosen NTT America (http://www.nttamerica.com) to host its social messaging services, it was announced recently. A U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation, NTT America will provide Twitter with fully managed hosting, managed security, managed networking, and a tier one global backbone.
NTTA operates SAS 70 Type II audited data centers that provide “an IT infrastructure-as-a-service that is fully redundant with high availability and scalability to support Twitter's continued rapid growth”.
"NTT Communications' history of reliability and its global perspective were key factors in our decision to select NTTA as our hosting services provider," explained Biz Stone, Twitter’s co-founder. "As Twitter grows and more people around the world depend on our infrastructure, we feel an increased responsibility to make the right decisions for the people who have helped make us a success as well as those who have yet to discover our service."
"With NTTA, we can focus our resources on developing software and serving our valued user community rather than on building, financing, and managing an in- house IT infrastructure team," added Twitter’s Vice President of Engineering and Operation.
"We are proud that Twitter selected NTTA as its trusted growth partner," said Don Goodwin, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "NTTA IT infrastructure-as-a-service enables Web 2.0 companies and their investors to maintain a laser focus on their strategy, get to market faster and preserve capital. It also significantly reduces the cost and energy required to build and maintain an IT infrastructure. By deploying the NTTA Enterprise Hosting Platform, Twitter can easily scale its application to deliver on its promise of reliability to its user community around the world."
