GigaSpaces' and Yazino's Visionary Technology Take Social Gaming to the Next Level

New York & London, December 7, 2010 – GigaSpaces Technologies, a leading provider of a new generation of application platforms for Java and .Net environments, has provided Yazino, a massively multiplayer online casino, the application infrastructure used to build the first cloud-based, social casino platform. Yazino is using GigaSpaces’ eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) to scale on demand, while reducing costs and speeding time to market.

"As a social gaming online casino, we knew from the beginning that scalability was critical to our success," says Hussein Chahine, Yazino’s Founder and CEO. "With XAP, we have the flexibility to meet constantly changing business volumes, with linear, real-time dynamic scalability using a cloud-data center hybrid model."

Yazino fuses social interaction and multiplayer functionality, building a bridge between traditional online gambling and social gaming sites. Yazino has already registered more than 500,000 players, with more than 10,000 new players joining daily.

XAP provides a unique enterprise-grade, end-to-end application scalability platform, which can handle extremely large volumes, be scaled out (or in) in real-time, is governed by preset business SLAs, and which is ultra-fast due to the whole platform running in memory. A strategic solution enhancing IT efficiency and agility, it guarantees performance under peak demand while improving hardware utilization by up to 500%. It allows developers to build, deploy, and operate their infrastructures in any environment without a single code change.

"Yazino benefits from our long experience with cloud development," says Adi Paz, GigaSpaces Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. "With XAP as the underlying infrastructure, our clients like Yazino can focus on the business logic and speed time to market without concern for where the application will actually run."

By using XAP, Yazino now has a massive multiplayer/multi-game online casino platform optimized for extremely high throughput, with hundreds of thousands of concurrent, interactive players, while giving each player excellent response time.

"GigaSpaces technology helped us build a hybrid infrastructure, where we can leverage the best of the cloud’s economies of scale while ensuring our data center can manage all of the regulatory-related processing," continued Hussein. "This provides Yazino with a valuable competitive edge as we use more costly hosting only for what is required by regulation, while other services sit entirely on the cloud."

_{About GigaSpaces
GigaSpaces' Technologies is a leading provider of a new generation of virtualized application platforms. Our flagship product, eXtreme Application Platform (XAP), delivers end-to-end scalability across the entire stack, from the data all the way to the application. XAP is the only product that provides a complete in-memory solution on a single platform, enabling high-speed processing of extreme transactional loads, while scaling to meet any requirement – dynamically and linearly. XAP was designed from the ground up to support any cloud environment – private, public, or hybrid – and offers a pain-free, evolutionary path from today’s data center to the technologies of tomorrow.}

_{More than 350 organizations worldwide are leveraging XAP to enhance IT efficiency and performance. Among our customers are Fortune Global 500 companies, including top financial services enterprises, telecom carriers, online gaming providers, and e-commerce companies, such as Dow Jones, NYSE, Société Générale, Virgin Mobile, and Sears.}

_{For more information, please visit http://www.gigaspaces.com, our blog at http://blog.gigaspaces.com}

_{About Yazino
Yazino, the world's first social casino (www.yazino.com) was conceived by three friends who wanted to reinvent the social gaming and online casino worlds by connecting the two together. Yazino has built a bridge between traditional online gambling and social gaming sites, creating a whole new hybrid category. The entire brand and in-game experience is entertaining and social to its core. Yazino offers a uniquely fun and competitive environment to connect the world around casino games, such as Blackjack, Roulette, Texas Hold'em and Slots.  Constantly refreshed multiplayer content, tournaments and the engaging challenge of levels and achievements allow Yazino to define the next generation of online gambling.
Yazino, a wholly owned subsidiary of Yazino Group AG (Switzerland), was founded by Hussein Chahine, Bijan Khezri and Gojko Adzic in 2008.}

_{For more information, please contact:
K2 Strategic Innovations
Amy Kenigsberg
amy@k2-si.com
+972 9 794 1681 (GMT +2)
U.S. +1 913 440 4072 (ET +7)}

_{Joelle Hadfield,
PR and Communications Manager, Yazino
joelle@yazino.com
+44 77 8950 8881}

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