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  The look ahead to a software-controlled world

  The Interop show in Las Vegas is always a good bellwether for enterprise technology trends, and perhaps the most striking thing about the recent show was how little the term "network fabric" came up.

  By John Dix | 21 May, 2012 20:32

  Tags: Zynga, zCloud, software defined networking, software defined data center, SDN, OpenFlow, LAN & WAN, Interop Las Vegas, Interop 2012, Interop, internet, hybrid cloud, hardware systems, Data Center, Configuration / maintenance, cloud computing, Allan Leinwand

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  Zynga CTO: Making infrastructure cool again

  Allan Leinwand is an infrastructure guy. He's CTO for infrastructure at Zynga, which during the past few years has built the zCloud, which powers some of the most popular social games today, such as "FarmVille" and "Words with Friends." It works by combining the capacity of Amazon Web Service's public cloud with the company's custom-built private cloud. And Leinwand says Zynga's evolution from relying on the public cloud to building a custom-made hybrid cloud, is one he hopes other enterprises can learn from. Leinwand is also excited because finally, he says, infrastructure is cool again. During the dot-com bubble all the talk was all about the Web, networking and storage. Now, with the increasing popularity of the cloud, infrastructure is once again front and center. This year Leinwand will be one of the keynote speakers at Interop (May 6-10 in Las Vegas) where he will discuss the evolution of zCloud and the state of cloud computing today.

  By Brandon Butler | 23 April, 2012 20:29

  Tags: cloud computing, hybrid cloud, internet, Interop, Interop 2012, Interop Las Vegas, The Cloud, Zynga

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  AWS partners with open-source private cloud provider Eucalyptus

  Amazon Web Services, which offers a series of public cloud compute services, has signed an agreement with open-source private cloud vendor Eucalyptus Systems as a way to help customers ease hybrid cloud deployments.

  By Brandon Butler | 23 March, 2012 05:30

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, AWS, cloud computing, eucalyptus, hybrid cloud, internet, VMware

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  Egnyte looks to tap enterprise hybrid cloud market

  There are two main types of cloud synchronization services available today, according to Terri McClure, a market analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group: consumer-focused ones, such as DropBox, and enterprise-focused ones such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Egnyte, a hybrid cloud provider, is looking to bridge the advantages of each with a new offering it released today.

  By Brandon Butler | 21 March, 2012 03:40

  Tags: Amazon Web Services, cloud computing, Egnyte, Enterprise Strategy, file sharing, hybrid cloud, internet, rackspace, SugarSync

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  Simplifying Cloud deployment

  This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter's approach.

  By Gina Murphy, vice president of sales engineering, NaviSite | 28 February, 2012 06:20

  Tags: cloud computing, cloud deployment, cloud migration, cloud optimization, hybrid cloud, internet

Whitepapers about hybrid cloud

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  The Hybrid Computing Proposition: Challenging and Overcoming Past Bias is Key to Achieving Breakthrough Gains

  The next generation of application server solutions has arrived but will you recognise them when you see them? It’s time to take another look at how new technologies challenge the efficacy of traditional architectural approaches, beyond virtualisation and into the future.