"For IT to really embrace cloud computing and outsource their data centers, you need to have more control than perhaps we're seeing these days." "What's missing from the cloud today is the ability to take that infrastructure-as-a-service and customize it and tweak it in an appropriate way for our business," Leinwand said. Zynga's move could provide clues for how companies that place a premium on performance will use the cloud in the future and how cloud services may develop. "We love the flexibility it offers we love to know we have that option," he said. But it now sees Amazon as a way to deal with unexpected surges in demand rather than as its primary platform. Zynga will continue to use Amazon in a hybrid cloud model, and Leinwand doesn't see Zynga reducing its dependence on Amazon any further, he said. He revealed that Zynga can now get 1,000 servers up and running in 24 hours, from loading dock to operation, and that it has been able to eliminate one in three physical servers since moving its operations from Amazon to its private cloud.
He also described the changes in a blog post. Leinwand talked with IDG News Service ahead of a presentation at the CloudConnect conference in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, where he described how the maker of "Farmville" and "Words with Friends" has rethought its compute infrastructure over the past year. I like to think of zCloud as the sports car built for the Le Mans of social gaming. "We love four-door sedans, but it's a car that's used for a lot of things - doing the shopping, moving the kids.
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