Game Developers

Startup with IBM

You have a great game design that could set records on Gog.com, Steam, Humble Bundle and Itch.io. Before that happens, you need to build it with the latest AI, GPU and security technology, and then host it on a scalable cloud platform. With up to USD 120,000 in IBM Cloud® credits, the startup with IBM program helps you prepare for your big launch. Chat with our experts to see if you qualify for our Builder or Premium startup programs.

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Mobile gaming

IBM Cloud has the tools you need to help take your mobile game from side project to the next global sensation.

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Virtual Servers for VPC

Provision fast and scale rapidly
Up to 80 Gbps network bandwidth per instance
Resilient and secure

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Mobile Foundation

Build faster with App Builder
Manage Application Versions
Secure your game end to end
Supports Android, iOS, Cordova, React Native, Ionic, Web, Windows, Xamarin

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Watson Studio

Visually prepare and build AI models that enhance game play
Deploy and run models through one-click integration
Govern and secure open source notebooks

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MMORPG

Security, scale and raw performance are all critical in supporting a fully immersive massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) experience. With a catalog from IBM at your disposal, you can deploy an environment at any scale to users across the globe.

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IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers

Fully Customizable: NVMe, SSD, and Memory tailored to your specific requirements.
Nvidia T4 GPU on Intel bare metal
Non-GPU dependent AMD bare metal with high core density
10Gbps redundant network ports

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IBM Cloudant

Serverless - Instantly deploy and scale to meet your requirements.
Secure - all data encrypted over the wire and at rest.
Zero Vendor Lockin - Cloudant is the only fully managed cloud DB with an open source drop-in replacement in Apache CouchDB.

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Blockchain Platform

Build digital assets exchanges that are secure and transparent
Verify scarcity for in game assets
Enable instant and secure payments across the world

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Multiplayer online battle arena

High speed and low latency are critical to success in this highly competitive genre. The IBM Cloud platform offers the performance and consistency to give your users a competitive edge.

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IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

Fully managed — workload scale and diversity
Secure clusters — highly secure environment with container-level security
Services integration — AI, IBM Watson® and blockchain

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IBM Cloud Content Delivery Network

Fast, optimized content delivery — fast load times for your applications
Automatic scaling — scale your service globally on over 2,200 points of presence in 36 countries
API integration — seamless integration through a full set of APIs

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IBM Cloud Object Storage

Flexible and scalable cloud storage for your unstructured game data
Automatic cost optimization to lower storage cost each month
Built for 99.99999999% reliability*

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Skyegrid and IBM are changing the game

Skyegrid was founded to deliver top-tier video games in the cloud for budget gamers. When the business needed a cloud platform to support its service, it chose IBM Cloud and IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers.

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Security for game hosting

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can paralyze the delivery of your game to users. See how IBM Cloud Internet Services can mitigate DDoS and similar attacks to keep your customers satisfied. IBM Cloud partners with Cloudflare to make IBM Cloud Internet Services for a product designed to protect public-facing web content and applications before they reach the cloud. Features include UDP filtering, WAF, global load balancing and more.

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IBM Cloud Internet Services with Cloudflare

Watson for gaming

IBM Watson Assistant

Get smarter customer self-service to help reduce costs and customer wait times.

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IBM Watson Studio

Prepare data and build models anywhere using open source code or visual modeling to help predict and optimize your outcomes.

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Natural language processing

Build apps with natural language processing.

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Let IBM Cloud be your global network backbone

When it comes to in-game interaction, you don’t get a second chance. Real-world latency can kill a game’s reputation and a developer’s success. Each IBM Cloud data center across North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia is connected to the IBM global private network — making data transfers and downloads faster and more efficient. And all IBM Cloud data centers are designed to exceed industry standards and empower you with gaming servers you can rely on.

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Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice: IBM Cloud Infrastructure

IBM Cloud has been recognized as a 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service, Worldwide. In markets where there is enough data, Gartner Peer Insights recognizes the vendors that are the most highly rated by their customers through the Customers’ Choice distinction. Read the blog post to learn more.

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Better gaming starts on the IBM Cloud

Chat with sales today to enroll in the startup at IBM program, where you can earn up to USD 120,000 in IBM Cloud credits to help you prepare for your big launch.

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Footnotes

*Based on IBM-internal analysis of client data. Individual client results will vary.