iWin

There is always time for fun.
Opscode + iWin = creating a great place to play. Hosted Chef Increases Automation and Scalability for Leading Social Games Business.

The Challenge

iWin, Inc. is a leading casual and social games creator, distributor and publisher for the mass market. iWin.com is one of the leading casual game portals, reaching and interacting with millions of visitors and gamers both domestically and internationally every month. With its current operations team, iWin needed a faster, more efficient configuration management engine that offered repeatability and accuracy to help automate its infrastructure and related management processes, and reduce the need for time- consuming costly manual updating.

The Solution

iWin engaged Opscode to help migrate the company to Hosted Chef, enabling iWin to achieve a more managed, scalable and increasingly automated infrastructure. The result was not only faster and easier configuration, but fully automated monitoring of graphing, statistical trending and log analysis information for a new class of systems. Achieving automation ultimately provided additional scalability for iWin's social games business, eliminated the need for costly manual labor and reduced errors.

The Results

  • Realized increased flexible scalability for social games division.
  • Significantly reduced time spent on infrastructure maintenance tasks and errors.
  • Achieved a fully automated, virtualized infrastructure.
"With Hosted Chef we are in a better position to scale our organization quickly, which allows us to offer our customers reliable access to our popular social games. Getting on board with Opscode was one of the best things that we did." Shadow Roldan, Director of Technical Operations

iWin, Inc. is a multi-platform developer, publisher, and distributor of mass- market social and casual games. In addition to its PC download, retail, and mobile businesses, iWin develops and publishes games on Facebook including Family Feud on Facebook, which has consistently been Facebook's #1 TV game show application. iWin.com is one of the leading casual game portals, reaching millions of visitors each month from around the world. iWin is also the creator of the award-winning and massively successful Jewel Quest, Mah Jong Quest, and Jojo's Fashion Show franchises.

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About Opscode

Opscode is the provider of Chef, the automation platform for the coded business. Opscode Chef provides the speed, flexibility, and efficiency to compete in the digital economy. By modeling IT infrastructure and application delivery as code, Chef empowers businesses of all sizes to easily scale to meet demand, eliminate down time, manage complexity, and accelerate time to market.