How Game-Maker Zynga Became A Cloud Vendor

摘要

Zynga, creator of eight of the 10 most popular social networking games on Facebook, is becoming a tech vendor-selling data center capacity on its game hosting platform. That service gives startup game-makers the technology on which to launch and run online games. Amazon first sparked the infrastruc-ture-as-a-service trend when it started selling its raw cloud computing infrastructure in 2006. But Zynga is the first gaming company to produce an infrastructure uniquely geared to the burgeoning online game industry.