Online game hosting solutions
Let us do the worrying
In game play, system failures and outages can mean the difference between life and death for a character—and your business. You need to reliably support every customer that wants to play your game. How do you predict your game's popularity? How many people will want to play on that first day? What about two months from now? Can you ensure you can meet rapidly fluctuating demand? Online game hosting solutions from IBM and IBM Business Partners are designed to help you keep gamers happy through the best in price performance.
The advantage
Leverage our combined industry experience
IBM has combined our games and interactive entertainment industry experience with leading hosting partners to deliver a complete online game hosting solution, providing games companies with world-class, fully-managed, dedicated game hosting services, comprising best-of-breed server, storage and network infrastructure, and expert network design, deployment and operation. We understand the significant computing and networking resource requirements of multiplayer online games, and have designed this solution around these specific needs.
A game solution for all sizes
Online game hosting can provide your game company with a powerful, reliable infrastructure, whether you're a small developer or a global market leader (or both)—keeping both your CTO, CFO and customers happy. Get access to a powerful infrastructure that is specially tuned for the games and interactive entertainment industry—and for your specific games—by our highly experienced architects and engineers. Launch a game that isn't necessarily a "sure thing" without worrying about the infrastructure costs—if the game is a hit, scale your infrastructure up; if it doesn't do well, scale down. Help ensure you have the bandwidth and power needed to provide a satisfying game play experience for all who want to play your games. Provide subscribers with consistent, reliable service by ensuring your systems are up and running whenever they want to play. Attract new customers and increase your player community by allowing more gamers to play concurrently. Scale your systems 20% in just four hours if more players decide to join in the game. Invest in massively multiplayer online games that support millions of users, without investing in the infrastructure required to support them. Focus your efforts on developing the most competitive games in the industry, enhancing game play and improving special assets and features—let us worry about the infrastructure.
Realize the potential savings
Online game hosting offers a "pay-as-you-grow" model that helps offset much of the risk and cost associated with online game deployment. We can help you:
- Minimize the operating expense of multiplayer online games, while maximizing performance, availability and support
- Benefit from short-term hosting contracts that help alleviate the risks inherent in launching new games
- Gain the quick scalability you need without investing in unnecessary technology
- Improve customer satisfaction, retention and value by focusing resources on customer needs, not infrastructure management
Need help?
Contact the Express Advantage Concierge, a team of specialists dedicated to midsized business 1-877-IBM-ACCESS (426-2223).
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