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Chen Guixin: Product based operation, customization, game operation in the cloud era

  

In recent years, the government has introduced cloud computing related policies, making this technology, which was previously hyped up, rapidly applied in all walks of life in China. With the gradual maturity of the domestic cloud service market, American VPS The system is sound, and various cloud applications are derived.

Of course, at the beginning of the new technology, all walks of life have their own different considerations about whether to accept it. As far as the game field is concerned, how to improve the quality and efficiency of game operations? If the cost can be controlled, it will become a key factor for the implementation in this field.

As we all know, Shanda Games, as a leader in the game industry, has started to try cloud computing applications as early as 2009. At present, it not only migrates all Shanda games to the private cloud, but also provides services such as virtual machines, physical machines, and cloud evaluation for third parties. This time, we invited Chen Guixin, senior director of Shanda Game Technology Support Center, to share with you the innovation and breakthrough of Shanda Game in the cloud computing field.

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Chen Guixin, Senior Director of Shanda Game Technology Support Center

G Cloud provides and guarantees infrastructure services

For the game field, the stability of the game is the most important concern of users. No stable environment will make users gradually alienate from the platform, resulting in a large number of users loss. Therefore, the underlying IT services are particularly important at this time.

In addition, mobile games, web games and end games have different service requirements for IT infrastructure. In terms of grand games, dozens of different types of mobile games, web games and end games are operated at the same time. It provides and guarantees infrastructure services through customized cloud platform G Cloud, mainly including: business understanding and customized technical solutions, abundant equipment and machine room resources, G Cloud's automated operation and maintenance platform and service management mechanism.

G Cloud is a research attempt of Shanda Games since 2008. It was provided to online businesses in 2009. At present, it has formed a characteristic customized cloud and productized operations, namely G Cloud · Customized Cloud, which provides all internal businesses of Shanda Games and serves nearly 100 external users.

Shanda's years of experience in game operation have also given G Cloud an inherent operational advantage in the industry, especially in terms of business needs, platform performance, and architecture stability. G Cloud platform gathers tens of thousands of servers, dozens of IDC rooms and more than ten years of rich operating experience, mainly providing high-quality and efficient bottom IT services for various mobile, web and end game operators.

In the interview, Chen Guixin said: "I always think that our private cloud is" evolved "rather than" done ". We should also ensure the performance, capacity, reliability of the business, facilitate expansion or contraction, and quickly deploy, merge, and shut down. We found that customized private cloud is the best solution.".

Cloud platform focusing on game field - G Cloud

The positioning of G Cloud is to ensure IT infrastructure resources and technical services. Compared with the public cloud based on products, G Cloud can help businesses reduce the requirements for the operation and maintenance team and customize exclusive hybrid resources for businesses, and solve users' problems in terms of weak operation and maintenance teams, business performance/security, adaptation to existing environments, and business uncertainty.

It was launched in 2013, American VPS The game "Diffusive King Arthur", which once ranked at the top of the IOS list, had a lot of pressure on the back-end DB when it went online. G Cloud solved the IO pressure on the DB through the physical server+FusionIO card; Realize rapid deployment and zone opening through the resources of elastic pool combined with automatic operation and maintenance; Shrink the resource pool in time to release physical resources and reduce operating costs when business declines

Shanda Game has experienced the glory of the end game period, and now the mobile game is popular. On the basis of the accumulation of the original operation and R&D strength, we not only continue the quality of classic end game, but also vigorously invest in and deploy the mobile game business, and have achieved good results.  

In the ever-changing mobile Internet era, Chen Guixin believes that opportunities are everywhere, but the size of the opportunities depends on how much value you can create. Opportunity itself is not absolute, and it is difficult to say how big or small it is, or even coexist with traps. Only when you truly seize and create your added value is yours.

A message from Chen Guixin, senior director of Shanda Game Technology Support Center, from IDC: IDC is the foundation of the Internet/mobile Internet, big data, and the Internet of Things. The rapid development of these industries and technologies will certainly promote the vigorous development of the IDC industry. I believe that IDC will maintain rapid growth for a long time in the future.