UK-based Platform Computing Ltd has signed a deal with online betting company Bet365 for technology to expand the latter’s ‘live in play’ sports betting offer.
‘Live in play’ betting is especially popular with Asian gamblers but is also growing in other markets including Europe. Live betting during sports matches requires bookmakers to process a lot of information in a short amount of time.
Platform Computing Ltd specialises in so-called grid technologies also applied in the financial services industries. In the online gaming industry grid technologies allow fast processing of the calculations necessary to price bets correctly.
“Grid technology also provides excellent ‘failover’ capabilities,” says Charles Jarvis, VP of Platform Computing in London.
“For example, if you have two data centres (say one in London and one in Asia) and one goes out of action, but you are running grids across those data centres, the work scheduled for the data centre that fails can be automatically re scheduled to the one data centre that is up and running.
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