365 Main Houses Online Game Services
November 9, 2006 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center developer and operator 365 Main (365main.com) announced on Wednesday it has been selected to house the West Coast hosting infrastructure for Online Game Services (onlinegameservices.com), which currently supports in excess of one million users on its platform.
OGSi clients include GoPets (gopets.net) and the recently launched Ping, which will digitally distribute the online component to Flagship Studio’s Hellgate: London and other titles. OGSi is the gaming channel of managed services provider Global Netoptex, which has invested over five years and more than $20 million in its network infrastructure.
For this venture OGSi has already pre-deployed the infrastructure for more than 1,000 IBM BladeCenter servers at 365 Main’s flagship data center in San Francisco, California. The company expects to have more than 3,500 blade servers operational by the end of 2007. The installed servers include a combination of IBM LS20, HS20 and HS21, and JS20 configured to customer specifications — the single largest deployment of IBM blade servers in the digital entertainment industry.
“Our on-demand ‘pay-as-you-grow’ game hosting business model is based around a dense hosting environment that requires advanced, modern data centers like 365 Main’s,” says James Hursthouse, CEO and owner of OGSi. “We chose 365 Main because it offers world-class power, connectivity, cooling and security, which together allow us to provide our customers with the finest hosting infrastructure available to power their games.”
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