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)

HONESDALE, Pa., Feb. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- The fifteen log cabins at Germany's Snow Dome Resort Hotel, exclusively provided by Estemerwalt Log Homes, are now open for business. Located just south of Hamburg, Germany, the Snow Dome Resort Hotel is the first log cabin hotel in Germany. The logs were shipped in two shipments from Estemerwalt Log Homes' Pennsylvania facility to the... (more)