Gaming Firms Need 10GigE?

Providers of cloud-based infrastructure and application hosting services, as well as bandwidth suppliers, might want to pay attention to recent moves by gaming companies, which are finding that, at least in some cases, cloud services providers cannot provide the network bandwidth gaming applications require, leading to performance issues.

Digital Chocolate, provider of social games such as Millionaire City and Pro MMA Fighter, is following Zynga by launching games in the cloud, then bringing them back in house when demand levels off.

Alfred Tsai, Digital Chocolate’s director of global IT and network operations, says Digital Chocolate was operating entirely in Amazon Web Services, but decided to bring some games back in-house when performance issues got to be too much. In other words, the backbone optical network was not running fast enough, with enough capacity.

Gaming startup pulls back from the cloud