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A company that gives its product away for free has to keep expenses low any way it can.
That's what CDC Games, a gaming company that last month launched a multiplayer online role-playing game in the United States, focuses on, but company general manager Ron Williams is frustrated by what he calls a lack of server products geared to the gaming industry, as well as misplaced incentives in data center collocation.
CDC Games, which is big in China's online and mobile gaming markets, has entered the U.S. market with Lunia, which customers can play for free but in which they are charged extra for optional enhancements that improve the abilities of their online fighters. CDC has built its infrastructure with IBM System x servers and IBM's iSCSI storage, and it stores this gear at Terremark's Miami collocation center.
Click to see: CDC Games' Lunia multiplayer online game
While complimenting IBM for offering good prices and service relative to the competition's, Williams says vendors like IBM, HP and Dell should start making stripped-down servers geared to the needs of online gaming companies and other software-as-a-service vendors.
CDC has about 40 dual- and quad-core servers that cost $5,000 to $6,000. As well as the IBM servers perform, Williams wonders why he can't get a $2,500, stripped-down box to meet his simple needs of processing power, memory and shared storage. Williams says CDC and other gaming companies don't need all the extra bells and whistles designed for enterprises, like integrated RAID controllers and remote management.
"All of us are taking these generic, commoditized servers and trying to do the best we can, when what we really want is a stripped-down box that's of high quality," Williams says. "IBM can't afford to keep all kinds of models around, but I think as we move more into cloud computing, someone is going to have to create [more stripped-down servers] for us, whether we're gamers or software-as-a-service."
IBM, which has promoted its relationship with CDC Games, offered a "no comment" when asked if it is considering developing a server along the lines Williams suggests.
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