Internet Games Host Game2XS Scales Effortlessly to Meet Surging Demand

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IBM Corp.,
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Linux,
Online Game,
Operating Systems,
Personal Technology,
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Overview: Game2XS was launched in late 2002 with the goal of becoming a major global player in the emerging online computer games market. However, the challenges for success are formidable. With the rush of online gamers into the marketplace, it needed to scale on demand to cope with the industry's explosive growth, the lack of capital meant it also had to keep upfront hardware costs down. Finally, Game2xs decided to standardizes on a flexible, integrated IBM Digital Media online gaming infrastructure that can be scaled quickly and easily in real time without disrupting service. The solution is based on an IBM's BladeCenter system running Linux.

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