Jagex and Servers
Jagex’s Challenge: How to keep the illusion a reality. Millions of players depend on Jagex’s servers to play their games and connect with friends. Mark needs a server solution that can handle the traffic, imaginations and expectations of each player. Created to provide the processing power and reliability that an always-up company like Jagex requires, Dell PowerEdge™ servers, based on the Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series, are designed to lower IT operating and staff administration costs while delivering the performance and reliability, which is critical for Jagex who centrally manages their various data centers worldwide from Cambridge in the UK. Mark needs to keep applications and business processes available and responsive. |  |
After all, it’s not just one server that has to perform; Jagex relies on over 200 Dell PowerEdge servers backed by Dell’s 24/7 ProSupport™ services to run its internal business, plus websites, databases, applications and games. "We’ve got tons of different pieces of technology working together on RuneScape.com and a few hundred thousand people playing it at any one time, all over the world," says Mark. "A moment of downtime means we’ve got hundreds of thousands of very angry people! We don’t get to do planned maintenance; we can’t switch our servers off at 3 am on a Sunday morning." Choosing Dell servers for its data center helps keep Jagex up and running at all times without fault – providing non-stop entertainment on a global scale. How successful is Mark’s approach? "Our platform is so stable that we’ve had Dell servers that have not been rebooted for years," says Mark. | |
