Zynga CIO: “We need more innovation on power consumption”
Migrating its social games from Amazon Web Services to its own cloud computing infrastructure, zCloud, has worked out well for Zynga, the company’s chief information officer, Debra Chrapaty, told GigaOM Structure 2012 in San Francisco Wednesday. While fundamentally similar to AWS in design, Zynga’s own data center, launched last year, is designed specifically for social games, optimizing network connectivity, server processing power and storage management. These are now essential attributes, given that 290 million Zynga games are being played each month.
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