One Skytap customer, for example, operates under the “DOS” principle: Don’t Own Stuff. “Most folks are still saying, ‘I’m not going to put my production data in the cloud,’” Goodwin said.īut that is changing. That leaves most mainstream IT organizations to use public cloud mainly for dynamic workloads such as test/dev, virtual demos and training, said Brett Goodwin, vice president of marketing and business development at Skytap, Inc., another cloud provider based in Seattle. As such, the company advises its customers to follow the “own the base rent the spike” principle. the San Antonio hosting and cloud provider. Indeed, at scale, running any application 24/7 in the public cloud costs more than running it on dedicated servers, said John Engates, CTO at Rackspace, Inc. “That’s probably what led them to that 3:1 efficiency.”

“As they gained more maturity with their apps, they learned the optimizations they could make that were not common options in the public cloud,” said Kurt Marko, an independent IT analyst in a panel discussion. Leinwand alluded to the cost savings, saying by using its own zCloud, Zynga is able to use only one server to every three servers it would have used in the public cloud. In it, she asked a few cloud insiders for their thoughts on why Zynga developed its own internal private cloud. TechTarget’s Alex Barrett summarized the session in her article: Why Zynga moved from public cloud to hybrid cloud. That session was Gaming the Hybrid Cloud: Lessons from Zynga’s zCloud given by Allan Leinwand, CTO at Zynga. One session in particular garnered a lot of attention at Interop 2012, Las Vegas.

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