Tag Archives | Private Cloud

How Zynga Created Its Hybrid Cloud

By on August 2, 2011 in Cloud Computing, Community Manager, Data Center, Information Technology

Allan Leinwand, CTO of Zynga, an online game provider, delivered a keynote speech at the recent DatacenterDynamics conference in San Francisco. He talked about how Zynga creates hybrid cloud. Allan Leinwand The number of Zynga’s game users is growing rapidly. The company had its own data center for supporting online games, but their infrastructure could [...]

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A Quick Look at Structure 2011

By on July 12, 2011 in Cloud Computing, Community Manager, Data Center, Database, Information Technology, Mobile and Wireless, Software, Storage, Telecommunication, Virtualization

This is a summary of Structure 2011, held recently by GigaOM in San Francisco. In this blog I report what I observed but without going into details. I plan to cover some of the subjects in more detail as time permits in future blogs. Similar conferences have sessions that run 50 to 90 minutes. Sessions [...]

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How to Provide Cloud Computing without a Data Center

By on October 19, 2009 in Cloud Computing, Community Manager, Data Center

Recently, I had an opportunity to meet with Richard Dym, CMO, and Koss Yokota, VP Asia Pacific Business Development, at OpSource’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, about their brand-new offering, OpSource Cloud. Their web page is the best source of information about who they are and what they do. However, like any other company, they [...]

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CloudCamp LA Wrap-up

By on October 8, 2009 in Cloud Computing, Community Manager

On Wednesday, September 30, we attended the first CloudCamp in Los Angeles – the 44th CloudCamp. Dave Nielsen and a team of 6 volunteers organized the unconference in a record 2 weeks. It was well-attended with most of the 224 registrants showing up and filling the meeting rooms of the Microsoft offices in downtown LA. [...]

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Using Cloudbursts To Create Elastic Private Clouds

By on September 15, 2009 in Community Manager

“Private cloud” is an oxymoron. And a private cloud may not possess the fundamental features of cloud computing.  The number of people who share this opinion is growing. See here and here.  However, there is a way to make a private cloud work by converting and exploiting parts of public clouds. One of my complaints [...]

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Can You Describe an Elephant? How about Cloud Computing?

By on August 25, 2009 in Community Manager, Enterprise Applications

If you did not know what an elephant was, could you describe it by just touching it?  According to Wikipedia, the story of the blind men and the elephant originated in India. (My use of the word blind is just for the sake of metaphor. I intend no discrimination or disrespect to visually handicapped people.) [...]

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VMware Takes Stake in Terremark – Furthering Competition With Google

By on May 28, 2009 in Community Manager

VMware has invested $20 million in Terremark, a sign the virtualization company is moving beyond its traditional market to become a cloud services provider. According to Network World, VMware and Terremark already have an existing relationship. VMware provides Terremark with its virtualization technology to power its enterprise cloud computing platform. The VMware platform allows Terremark [...]

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