Last summer a CIO for a high profile ecommerce company told me that the smartest way to play the cloud was to rent the spike.  I just read the same thing from Zynga’s Infrastructure CTO Allan Leinwand in Inside Zynga’s Big Move To Private Cloud by InformationWeek’s Charles Babcock: "We own the base, rent the spike. We want a hybrid operation. We love knowing that shock absorber is there."... (more)

LONGUEUIL, QUEBEC -- (Marketwire) -- 02/18/12 -- Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Astronaut Chris Hadfield will present "Living and Working on the International Space Station" at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Family Science Days being hosted in Vancouver, British Columbia this weekend. The CSA will also join a number of exhibitors showcasing cool science jobs ... (more)