![]() ![]() This announcement highlights the collaboration of Kyndryl and Microsoft and brings together the world's largest provider of hosted mainframe services and a market-leading public cloud provider to unlock new ways for mainframe clients to drive innovation and bring value to customers," said Steven Dickens, Senior Analyst, Futurum Research.Īs part of the joint mainframe modernization initiative, Kyndryl will launch consulting and integration services developed to help customers more easily and efficiently plan, design, and connect mainframe data to Azure Cloud and Edge Computing environments. "As enterprises look to adopt a hybrid cloud strategy, the mainframe has a key role to play. Kyndryl and Microsoft also plan to combine mainframe data with other internal and external cloud-based data sources that will enable customers to create new applications that leverage modern analytics and visualization tools to deliver advanced insights at scale. Customers will have a holistic view of their data and can take advantage of machine learning, AI, analytics, and reporting, and will be able to leverage low code/no code applications with Microsoft Power Platform. Kyndryl, provider of the secure multi-tenant zCloud, is applying its unique expertise to create data pipes that enable connections between the mainframe, including its zCloud platform, and the Microsoft cloud, making it easier for customers to move their mainframe data to the cloud, thereby unlocking new uses and value streams from their entire data estate. While Amazon is an all-purpose four-door sedan, Zynga’s custom-built zCloud is a sports car tuned to one purpose.NEW YORK-( BUSINESS WIRE)-Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, and Microsoft today announced plans to expand the reach and impact of their global strategic partnership by helping customers expand and increase access to valuable mainframe data. Now that the zCloud is up and running, the company is collecting data on just how well all of the parts of the data center are working and what can be done to cut costs and improve the user experience. “We wanted to understand our availability and make sure that it was solid and always there,” he said. Leinwand said Zynga embraced the idea of “all-in availability,” which meant it would handle the load even if Amazon went down. The company can now precisely understand the computing experience that players have, like how many seconds they have to wait for something to happen. Leinwand also said that Zynga has more control over the availability of its games. Zynga’s infrastructure is one of the largest uses of public and private clouds in the world. Zynga can now deploy up to 1,000 servers in 24 hours. But the bet has paid off so far with steady growth in users and lower costs per user. If its games suddenly become unpopular and the user count drops, Zynga could get stuck with too much infrastructure. Zynga now has to invest in its own data centers. ![]() Of course, shifting most of its user base to a private cloud carries its risks. Zynga now has 240 million monthly active users. In November, CastleVille started on the zCloud, and the system was able to handle huge traffic growth when the game grew to five million users in six days. CityVille Hometown, a mobile game, was the first to be entirely hosted on zCloud. Zynga was able to deploy the zCloud for its initial trial within six months. 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. 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. ![]()
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