{"id":1943,"date":"2012-06-05T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2290692"},"modified":"2012-06-05T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T14:59:00","slug":"softlayer-delivers-rapid-scalability-to-game-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/softlayer-delivers-rapid-scalability-to-game-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftLayer Delivers Rapid Scalability to Game Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interruptions from outages, network lag and scalability issues caused by unpredictable usage patterns can mean \u201cgame over\u201d in the competitive world of online game development. With a wide array of Internet-scale cloud infrastructure options \u2013 including dedicated, virtualized and managed servers \u2013 SoftLayer Technologies has become the go-to provider to some of today\u2019s top game developers. Online gaming companies such as Broken Bulb Game Studios, East Side Games, KIXEYE, Hothead Games and Storm8 rely on SoftLayer to provide a platform where they can develop, test, launch and run their latest games.<br \/>\n\u201cWorking with SoftLayer gave us the right mix of dedicated and pure cloud-based resources,\u201d said Robert Nelson, CEO of Broken Bulb Studios. \u201cWe have a robust platform that can support our massive bursts in user adoption when rolling out new games. This is because we\u2019re able to easily provision any and all IT resources while overcoming network latency issues, giving our users a great online experience.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2290692\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interruptions from outages, network lag and scalability issues caused by unpredictable usage patterns can mean \u201cgame over\u201d in the competitive world of online game development. With a wide array of Internet-scale cloud infrastructure options \u2013 inc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}