Over time, even more users will be hosted on the zCloud. “We launched with AWS and then began to understand the stresses of the traffic and how we could manage it,” Leinwand said.Īt the beginning of 2011, 20 percent of Zynga’s daily active users were hosted on the zCloud and 80 percent were on Amazon. As it designed the zCloud, Zynga focused on the hardware and tried to eliminate every bottleneck in server components such as microprocessors, storage, and memory. And most of that was due to zCloud spending on server infrastructure that was precisely suited for Zynga’s mix of games. Yesterday, the San Francisco company disclosed that it spent $238 million on capital expenditures in 2011, up four-fold from the year before. Between 20, Zynga’s server capacity grew two orders of magnitude.īut starting last year, the company began heavily investing in the private zCloud. AWS gave Zynga huge flexibility, and it formally adopted a hybrid cloud strategy that mixed public and private clouds. To find out more about IBM zCloud take a look here.FarmVille grew from zero to 10 million daily active users in its first six weeks and hit 25 million DAUs in its first five months. IBM’s zCloud portfolio of contributions and services takes these virtues out of the back office and thrusts them out into the bright lights of the future – creating perhaps, the ultimate Cloud Platform. Scalability, availability, virtualization, and usage-based metering have long been part of the Mainframe environment, which the distributed world has zealously tried to recreate, and often claim credit for.
The inherent flexibility and extra capacity capability in these solutions helped the UK based bank to be more agile and radically improve turnaround times to set up custom environments – the net outcome was gaining the confidence of the developers to try out new solutions and deliver them rapidly to the market. A recent example of a client who leveraged these services was a European Bank which re-launched its newly designed customer-facing digital banking solution where the IBM zCloud offered the backend system. IBM is focused on this area, through delivering a range of services to compliment the zCloud offering they are designed to focus in on delivering greater agility for application development. The IBM zCloud solution enabled the firm to compete in this low-cost- per-click market by using the flexibility and speed of the low-priced cloud platform service, thereby generating a whole new revenue stream.įinally, one of the reasons for Mainframe not being perceived as agile and cloud-like is perhaps due to the fact that Mainframes are often used in “low profile” yet mission critical “back-office” applications. If new product workloads demand more compute power, then so be it quick, easy, and cost effective.Īnother recent example is a UK financial services company who recently launched a new product that enabled insurance companies to access its data from mobile devices to validate individuals and provide them with online insurance quotes. IBM’s zCloud offering has helped customers the world over reduce ‘Total Cost Of Ownership’ (TCO) by up to 30 percent through reducing their on premise Mainframe footprint and moving to a ‘pay-as- you-use’ model base. Coupled with scheduled and unscheduled compute demand, this flexibility provides a vital function to supporting the daily operations of many a Mainframe client. In a situation where mobile banking volumes are exploding, IBM’s zCloud service can help financial services clients get the additional compute power they require with the added flexibility and scalability needed to meet their demands, without additional capital expenditure.
Take the case of financial services industry – 92 of the world’s ‘Top 100’ banks use mainframe technology and increasingly mobile queries the world over are delivered by – you guessed it, a Mainframe. One of the main challenges for CIOs with a large mainframe environment is that as their business grows, so too do the costs to maintain the environment. However, IBM’s zCloud offering can, and in fact does provide a cloud computing infrastructure with the agility, scale, security, availability and performance to respond to today, and tomorrow’s changing business needs. Against this backdrop the words ‘mainframe’, ‘cloud’ and ‘agile’ may not often appear in a sentence together due to the popular perception that the Mainframe is not as agile as other architectures found in cloud datacenters. Cloud computing has become the default option for IT service provision be that off or on premise or via a hybrid model.
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