Just when the school's intranet was in full swing, the brother companies Glorious Games and Glorious Pay were not idle. Now Guanghui Games has more than 100 million revenue every month by relying on "Fishing Game" and "Happy Farm", which can be said to be the most profitable enterprise in the group.

For a game company, the biggest cost is the labor cost and server investment. And because Guanghui Games is currently a web game, and each game is built by Jiang Hui, there is no need for too many people at present, so there is very little support for labor costs. Although there are more than 40 regular employees and more than 50 interns after recent recruitment, the number of employees is insignificant compared to the income of Korn Games.

On the contrary, with the increasing number of registered users of the official website of Guanghui Games, the demand for servers is increasing. Although Guanghui Games and the school intranet are now building their own server rooms, which is still enough for the time being, if Guanghui Games wants to further develop online games in the future, it will inevitably need more server resources, and the increasing demand for servers from new companies such as group buying and Douban will also increase, Jiang Hui feels that it is necessary to start planning the construction of the data center now.

A data center is a complex set of facilities. It not only includes computer systems and other supporting equipment, but also includes redundant data communication connections, environmental control equipment, monitoring equipment and various safety devices. Although I don't want to invest billions of dollars at every turn in the future, it is still at least necessary to prepare an initial investment of three or five billion.

With the rapid development of IT technology, a new generation of high-density servers and storage devices is emerging. With the expansion of business and the improvement of informatization, today's data centers no longer only support some single applications or daily data storage and computing functions, but also provide support and services for the normal operation of the entire business operation system. The future development of Korn Ferry Group will inevitably put forward higher requirements for the level standards and service capabilities of data center infrastructure.

Flash Yu, director of the school's intranet, Korn Radix Pay, and Korn Glory Game Data Center, also raised a lot of issues when he reported to Jiang Hui on the concept of the data center.

"At present, the energy cost of data centers remains high and is rising rapidly. There are many factors that contribute to this situation, such as low server utilization and poor design of the power supply system in the data center. The electricity cost of many data centers in China exceeds 10 million yuan per year, and it is necessary for us to fully consider the issue of energy consumption in the early planning," said Shanyu.

According to Jiang Hui's idea, the data center will be built by Guanghui Group, and all its subsidiaries will pay for it, so as to maximize the use of resources and avoid unnecessary waste.

"Flash Rain, do you think it is possible for all the companies in the group to jointly build a data center?" Jiang Hui asked.

"Mr. Jiang, you have asked this question to the point. At present, most institutional data centers cannot achieve flexible allocation of resources, and cannot fully realize resource sharing and improving equipment utilization. According to statistics, more than half of the data centers have more than 20% of the servers in an idle state or extremely low utilization. The root cause of this is that traditional data centers are often built on separate information technologies that don't communicate with each other. At the same time, the performance of servers and storage systems cannot be fully utilized because resources cannot be shared. Therefore, for the sharing of data centers, it is a trend, but it is also a difficulty," said Shanyu.

"Do you have any senior brothers or sisters or classmates who are also working on data centers? I plan to start the preparatory work for the construction of the data center in earnest, and strive to set a construction plan within this year, start construction next year, and put the Jiang data center into operation as soon as possible," Jiang Hui said.

"I'll go back and get in touch, because my mentor is a project that studies data processing, so there are a lot of senior brothers working in data centers such as telecom and mobile, and I'll see if I can convince a few to come and work with me to build a data center," said Shanyu.

"Well, in terms of treatment, we can double their previous salary, as long as people are willing to come, everything is easy to discuss," Jiang Hui said.

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The construction of the data center is an indispensable part of the development of Guanghui Group, and the corresponding layout can be done in advance, which can also take advantage of cloud computing in the future, and put forward higher requirements for the rapid development of the group in the next step, especially after the launch of smart phones, and the rapid increase in data processing business.

However, the matter of the data center was not in a hurry, and after Jiang Hui arranged for Flash Rain to plan, he began to shift his energy to Glorious Games. The development of "Fishing Game" and "Plants vs. Zombies" arranged by Jiang Hui before, of which "Fishing Game" has reaped rich fruits, and "Plants vs. Zombies" is about to be completed.

Guanghui Games is now invincible in terms of domestic web games, but although several games have achieved good market response in China, Guanghui Games' influence in the international arena is limited.

"Plants vs. Zombies" became popular in the Celestial Empire after it became popular in Europe and the United States in its previous life, and it can be regarded as a game that is widely popular around the world. It is only fitting that this game will be used as a glorious game to enter the world. Therefore, during the development, Jiang Hui had to go to the team to Chinese the Chinese version and the English version at the same time, and the other language versions would be considered for launch later. Jiang Hui is ready to face global customers and launch "Plants vs. Zombies" simultaneously in the near future.

"This game is the company's first simultaneous product in the world, and the technical department must make sure to avoid major problems during the operation of the game. If Fishing Game is the company's cash cow, then I hope Plants vs. Zombies is a global banner for the company, and people think of games that will be associated with Glorious Games," Jiang Hui said to Zhang Weiguo, head of the Technology Department.

"Mr. Jiang, don't worry, this game has actually been developed and has been working on the inside, just hoping to eliminate bugs and give players a better experience. In addition, the images of plants and zombies in our team have been optimized to make them look more comfortable. In particular, Wang Mengyu, an intern recruited by Mr. Jiang some time ago, has made a lot of contributions to the art of the game," said Zhang Weiguo.

"Oh, yes, Wang Mengyu's performance is okay, right?" Jiang Hui asked.

(End of chapter)