The gaming industry is growing by leaps and bounds. Top players in the industry are embracing technological innovations like connected devices, HTML5 and multichannel performance to provide interactive, feature rich and great user experiences.
According to Internap (News - Alert), one-third of the world's 25 largest and four of the top five fastest-growing online gaming companies make use of the company’s solutions to provide enhanced gaming experience for their clients.
Reports suggest that the gaming industry will reach $34 billion worldwide by 2014. By being the solutions provider of choice of some of the most respected gaming companies of the world, Internap can only look to a bright future ahead. The company provides flexible hybrid infrastructure platform that includes public and private cloud along with bare metal and managed hosting and colocation.
The company can provides its games on any platforms, including MMO (massively multiplayer online), mobile, social and casual games. The company also offers route-optimized IP connectivity and content delivery network to improve the player experience at a very low latency.
Internap’s Performance IP makes use of a patented, multicarrier route optimization technology called Managed Internet Route Optimizer (MIRO). This provides users visibility across almost every major backbone.
“In this competitive and fast-growing marketplace, the speed and agility of data center infrastructure is critical to the success of our gaming customers," said Josh Crowe, senior vice president of product development at Internap. "The combination of Internap's extensive hybrid infrastructure portfolio, rapid scaling and guaranteed performance is unrivaled in its ability to deliver the immersive experience that gaming companies and their players have come to expect.”
The company recently upgraded its partner program to align with its data center infrastructure offering. Some of the new features in the partner program are dedicated global channel sales team and a newly started portal to simplify and expedite agent lead submission and management.
Edited by Rachel Ramsey