Case Study: RockYou achieves scalable infrastructure and reliable uptime with Rackspace Technology

Social Gamer RockYou Takes Advantage of Rackspace Private Cloud Powered by OpenStack to Bolster Infrastructure and Uptime Reliability

RockYou is a San Francisco–based social gaming and ad platform that delivers free-to-play games and the world’s largest in-game video ad network to over 75 million users. Rapid growth and an expensive hardware refresh left the company struggling to scale, maintain high uptime, and support frequent acquisitions of mature game titles with a small ops team.

Partnering with Rackspace Private Cloud powered by OpenStack, RockYou gained fast, flexible VM provisioning, hands-on support, and a separate DR site, enabling rapid migrations (including three Disney games launched within three months) and the ability to spin up dozens of servers in hours. The result: reliable uptime, easier scaling, lower infrastructure costs, and the operational agility to onboard ~15 titles in 18 months while keeping the team lean.

RockYou

Brent Allard

Senior Director of IT and Ops.