Horizon – Managed Cloud Development & Production Platform
Horizon by Game-Hosting is a comprehensive, managed centralized cloud development and production platform that enhances control, security, productivity, and collaboration throughout the entire product life cycles.
Horizon is the central hub for your development and production operations, connecting and optimizing every stage of production from concept to delivery with features like automated integration, remote workspaces, enhanced security, and centralized management. This comprehensive solution fosters seamless and easily administrated collaboration among your teams and co-dev partners, ensuring efficiency for your company, your employees and your partners, ultimately benefiting your clients and your games.
Horizon is a solution that brings Return Of Investment.
Experience the future of game development with Horizon and transform
your entire development and production operations.
Management and Flexibility
Managed Service
Horizon is a fully managed service, meaning that the infrastructure, security, and core components are designed, deployed and operated by Game-Hosting. Our TechOps team will work as an extended arm of your dev and ops teams. This eliminates the need for extended internal knowledge and reduces the burden on client teams, allowing them to focus on core development tasks. With the management of core components of the platform, Game-Hosting ensures that all integrated tools and systems, such as for example version control, project management, CI/CD, and secrets management, are functioning optimally and inter-connect seamlessly.
Continuous monitoring and proactive management by Game-Hosting’s TechOps team ensures high availability and optimal performance, providing stable and reliable environments for developers. The managed aspect ensures that the environments and platform are secure, compliant, and efficiently managed, providing peace of mind and operational efficiency.
Flexibility and Customizability
Horizon is designed to be highly flexible and customizable, allowing organizations to tailor the platform to meet their specific needs. This includes customizable development environments, scalable cloud and Kubernetes resources, and the ability to integrate with various tools and systems.
The flexibility ensures that Horizon can adapt to changing project requirements and business needs, providing a versatile solution that grows with the organization.
Core Features Description
Streamlined Development Process
Horizon automates and integrates all components of the development process, eliminating dependency conflicts and ensuring a smooth transition from development to production. It also integrates with common SaaS services, middleware, and SDKs required for game development.
Centralized Management & Security
Horizon offers centralized management, enhanced change governance, improved risk management, and simplified dependency management. It ensures secure access to resources with a Zero Trust security model and centralized compliance management, allowing developers to access preconfigured environments from any device, enhancing flexibility and productivity.
Comprehensive Capabilities
Beyond development, Horizon extends its capabilities to testing, deployment, and production, providing seamless integration with deployment tools and the creation of testing and production environments.
Operational Agility and Resiliency
Horizon creates an abstraction layer that helps organizations utilize SaaS services, cloud, and bare-metal resources as commodities, and leverage their benefits without compromising on flexibility, choice, performance, or cost. Horizon acts as a common interface between the organization and the providers, platforms, and infrastructure resources.
This enables organizations to simplify, centralize and standardize the management and provisioning of services and resources, and overcome the challenges of lock-in, complexity, and inefficiency and still obtain full control. Horizon enhances the organization’s operational agility and cost-effectiveness and makes the organization more resilient to changes in the technology landscape.
Core Pillars
CONTROL
Centralized Management
Clients can centrally manage and pre-configure development environments, ensuring consistency and compliance across the organization.
Enhanced Change Governance
Clear policies and procedures for managing changes, ensuring smooth transitions and minimizing disruptions.
Improved Risk Management
Effective risk assessment and mitigation techniques to handle potential risks associated with changes.
Simplified Dependency Management
Dependencies are managed centrally, reducing the complexity and potential conflicts that can arise from individual setups.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Achieves consistency, repeatability, and simplified change management, enhancing operational efficiency.
Full Cost & Resource Control
Predictable monthly costs through full cost and resource control utilization at organizational level.
SECURITY
No need for Code Downloads
Horizon reduces exfiltration risk of code as developers do not need to download source code to local devices, reducing the risk of unauthorized distribution and data breaches.
Centralized Compliance Management
Clients can centrally configure and enforce security policies, ensuring compliance without burdening individual developers.
Reduced Device-Level Security Risks
By decoupling the development environment from the device, Horizon mitigates the risk of security breaches at the device level.
Simplified Security for Developers
Developers are relieved from managing security configurations, as these are handled centrally.
Enhanced Control and Monitoring
Organizations can maintain better control and monitoring of development activities, ensuring that security policies are consistently applied.
ACCESSIBILITY
Remote Access
Developers can access their development environments from anywhere, using any device with an internet connection, enhancing flexibility and productivity.
Consistent Environments
Horizon provides consistent development environments across different devices and locations, reducing setup time and ensuring uniformity.
Scalability
Easily scale resources up or down based on project needs, ensuring that developers have the necessary tools and infrastructure without over-provisioning.
Collaboration
Facilitates seamless collaboration among team members, regardless of their geographic location, by providing a unified platform for development.
Reduced Hardware Dependency
Developers can use less powerful local devices since the heavy lifting is done in the cloud, lowering costs and making high-performance development accessible to more users.
COST EFFICIENCY
Reduced Hardware Costs
Developers can use less powerful local devices since the heavy lifting is done in the cloud, lowering overall hardware expenses including administration and logistics.
Optimized Resource Utilization
Horizon allows for efficient allocation and utilization of resources, ensuring that high-performance hardware is used effectively and only when needed.
Scalability
Easily scale resources up or down based on project needs, avoiding over-provisioning and reducing unnecessary costs.
Centralized Management
Organization can centrally manage and configure development environments, reducing the time and effort spent on individual setups, maintenance/troubleshooting.
Streamlined Onboarding
New developers can quickly get up to speed with pre-configured environments, reducing the time and cost associated with onboarding
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