Case Study: Big Fish Games achieves faster global game delivery and robust security with Akamai Technologies

Big Fish Games Smoothly Evolves to Mobile-Centric Business Model with Akamai Performance and Security Solutions

Big Fish Games, a leading producer and distributor of casual games with a global, mobile-first audience, needed to transition from a PC-centric model while delivering fast, consistent downloads to players in 11 languages and many regions. Relying on only two U.S. data centers created performance bottlenecks for large game files, and the company also faced growing security threats such as DDoS, SQL injection and XSS attacks.

Big Fish adopted Akamai’s Ion, NetStorage and Kona Site Defender to leverage a globally distributed edge network, pre-warmed caches and managed security. The solution accelerated downloads by 30–40%+, enabled billions of file deliveries and supports about 10 million monthly active users, continuously blocks web attacks, and eliminated the need to expand Big Fish’s own data center footprint.

Big Fish Games

Sean Chighizola

Vice President of IT Operations