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Almost all of the gaming companies run on the bare metal so they can get all the use of the hardware, refresh the latest and greatest hardware. And we compare that with the focus that we've had on the network. We've built our global backbone -- it's all about speed and latency. And especially these games, they're very complex. Lots of videos you can imagine almost look lifelike, and so it's all about speed, it's all about performance, and the new layer in our API set -- they build it directly into the games so they can have that functionality and scalability. And that's why a lot of the larger gaming companies especially, have come to SoftLayer and have been customers here for a long, long time.
"Particular to gaming, it's all about horsepower, so they always want the latest and greatest," said Lance Crosby, the CEO of SoftLayer, who recently spoke with TheStreet."We're one of the only providers out there that offer the bare metal (Intel & AMD) with the GPU inside the server and multiple GPUs inside the same physical server."
It is kind of an entertainment type solution, so you know, these are billion-dollar gaming companies that are building the games and then charging to play the games. The cloud gaming market is fairly competitive because there's a lot of dollars being spent on it.
I would say that we're building for the next generation of mission-critical high performance -- the best cloud latency solutions out there. And gaming is one of those platforms that happen to work well on it. https://www.ibm.com/cloud/gamingThe gaming industry is fairly akin to the high-end enterprise. The mission-critical and the latency requirements, the performance requirements -- all of those attributes are the same from a very high-end enterprise to the gaming world. Now what they do with it is two different things. But they do share very common attributes.
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Skyegrid - IBM Cloud supports innovative, local cloud gaming platform
https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/skyegrid-cloud
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/next-level-gaming-with-ibm-cloud
Exit Games - Empowers multiplayer online game development with IBM Cloud bare metal servers
https://www.ibm.com/case-studies/exit-games
LiquidSky, NVIDIA GPUs, and IBM Cloud are powering the evolution of gaming
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/blog/liquidsky-powering-gaming-evolution
AMD EPYC 7642-based IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers are now available for configuring, pricing, and quoting inside the IBM Cloud Catalog and are being made available in IBM Cloud data centers across North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions.
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