But I actually think a hybrid model, which means owning the base infrastructure and renting the spike capacity, is really the mantra of the future. There's a perception, I think, that public clouds will lead to the outsourcing of infrastructure and IT. 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. Now, with the increasing popularity of the cloud, infrastructure is once again front and center. During the dot-com bubble all the talk was all about the Web, networking and storage. Leinwand is also excited because finally, he says, infrastructure is cool again. 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.

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. Interop keynote speaker Allan Leinwand of Zynga shares his thoughts on the state of cloud computing and what advice he has for enterprises looking to tap into the cloud.Īllan Leinwand is an infrastructure guy.

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