1. Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Delivers Scalability for eSports Competition Platform
“Microsoft Azure has allowed us to quickly scale our platform and services along with increasing and decreasing traffic. This is especially helpful after promotion activities, when thousands of users access our platform within a very short time.” – Dominik Mayrhofer, CTO, pwnwin
SITUATION
The number of eSports players has increased steadily in recent years and is predicted to continue to grow in the future by 20 percent annually. More than 128 million people spend their spare time playing eSports games, and pwnwin’s platform that offers worldwide competitions for professional and amateur players needed a cloud host provider with quick scalability while maintaining reliability.
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV:
pwnwin
WEB SITE:
LOCATION: Mondsee, Austria
ORG SIZE: 8 employees
MICROSOFT AZURE ISV PROFILE:
pwnwin is an eSports competition platform that allows players from all over the world and all skill levels to compete in their favorite games for cash, prizes and glory, making it a more competitive and exciting gaming experience.
SOLUTION
pwnwin relies on Microsoft Azure Cloud Services for highly available, high-performance applications that scale up when more power is needed because of high spikes in traffic and scale down when traffic is normal. Azure SQL Database delivers quick and massive scalability, while Azure CDN improves speed, performance, and reliability with high-bandwidth. pwnwin can increase system power within minutes to offer millions of eSports players worldwide the chance to compete for prizes and glory.
BENEFITS
The user-friendliness of Microsoft Azure makes the solution easier and faster to deploy than other methods.
System costs with Microsoft Azure are low as pwnwin pays only for what it uses thanks to autoscaling.