"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
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.
About iWin, Inc.
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.
Learn more about iWin, Inc.About Opscode
Opscode is the leader in cloud infrastructure automation. We help companies of all sizes develop fully automated server infrastructures that scale easily and predictably; can be quickly rebuilt in any environment, and save developers and systems engineers time and money.
Our team is comprised of web infrastructure experts responsible for building and operating some of the world's largest websites and cloud computing platforms. Opscode is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.
