IBM and Terremark Collaborate With CDC Games to Break New Ground in Online Games

IBM and Terremark Collaborate With CDC Games to Break New Ground in Online Games

CDC Games will host their U.S. online infrastructure on IBM (NYSE: IBM) servers housed inside facilities operated by Terremark Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: TMRK), an IBM Business Partner. The combination of CDC Games’ innovative platform and IBM’s superior hardware together with Terremark’s world-class facilities and massive connectivity will bring gamers and fans a high-quality massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) experience.

CDC Games, a business unit of CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA), is one of China’s market leaders of online and mobile games with more than 120 million registered users. It pioneered China’s first “free to play, pay for merchandise” MMORPG. In 2007, CDC Games began expanding into new geographies to accelerate the development of online games, and the company recognized it needed to standardize on a server platform that effectively scales to support its ambitious growth in the U.S. market.

As CDC Games’ presence grows in the United States, IBM System x servers, powered by IBM X-Architecture, will be key to delivering a user experience characterized by responsiveness, high computing performance and reliability for CDC, while keeping costs and power requirements down. Through Terremark’s global operations platform, which combines a worldwide datacenter footprint, plug-and-play access to massive connectivity from more than 160 global carriers and the industry’s most advanced utility computing platform, CDC has the ideal managed infrastructure for their platform.

“We are excited to partner with IBM, a leading provider of hardware systems for the video game industry, and Terremark, a leading provider of global IT infrastructure services,” said Jeff Longoria, president of CDC Games International, a unit of CDC Games. “IBM offers us very reliable, competitively priced products built on innovative energy-saving green initiatives that will help us become one of the premier publishers of online games in North America. With Terremark’s advanced network topology, our gaming infrastructure will be located at the core of the North American Internet, which will help to deliver the best user experience for our gamers.”

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