GREE Partners with RightScale to Deliver Multi-Cloud Management System to Developers Worldwide- The RightScale Cloud Management Platform Gives Developers Flexibility and Choice for Hosting Servers with Preferred Vendors -

TOKYO, Japan - January 20, 2012 - GREE, Inc. today announced a partnership with RightScale® Inc., a leader in cloud computing management, to take advantage of the RightScale Cloud Management Platform (“RightScale Platform”). The partnership will enable GREE's development partners to work with multiple cloud vendors, through a single global integrated solution.

Through RightScale's centralized dashboard, developers will have the flexibility to host their servers on any cloud vendor of preference, while easily managing it on the RightScale platform. In addition, Rightscale's global capabilities will allow developers to easily manage cloud service providers that do not have a local presence, when expanding to foreign markets. In Japan, developers will be able to leverage RightScale's recent partnership with IDC Frontier - a subsidiary of Yahoo! Japan Corporation that locally offers a cloud serviced.
Amongst other benefits, this partnership will help to reduce operational load and will enable large-scale system management by smaller groups of people. RightScale will also offer premium support services at no cost to GREE's development partners to for verification purposes.

The rise of smartphone adoption and an increase in developers who use cloud services worldwide made RightScale and GREE's partnership increasingly necessary, to adapt to the ever-changing mobile social gaming market.

GREE will continue to provide the leading mobile social gaming ecosystem for users around the world, by creating high-quality content in collaboration with established global partners.

Visual Representation of the RightScale Platform

Without RightScale With RightScale
Features Operation is reliant on
environment,heavy maintenance necessary
Efficient and self managing
Server Management Screen Reliant on each cloud Unified operation without relying on cloud
Server Construction Reliant on engineer ability Use proven template
Contract Cloud business company Cloud business + RightScale

About GREE, Inc.

GREE provides Japan's leading mobile social network, and is at the forefront of mobile technology. GREE was ranked as Japan's fastest-growing tech company by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd. in 2009 and 2010. GREE, following its acquisition of OpenFeint in April 2011, is expanding globally and will soon offer a single, worldwide mobile social gaming platform. Combined, GREE reaches over 150 million players and offers over 7,500 game applications for smartphones. GREE aims to build the leading mobile social gaming ecosystem for users and developers worldwide.

About RightScale

RightScale® Inc. is the leader in cloud computing management. Founded in 2006, the company offers fully automated cloud management that enables organizations to easily deploy and manage business critical applications across multiple clouds with complete control and portability. To date, thousands of deployments and more than three million servers have been launched with RightScale cloud management for leading organizations such as PBS, Harvard University, Zynga and Sling Media. To learn more about RightScale, please go to http://www.rightscale.com.

About IDC Frontier

IDC Frontier Inc. provides data center solutions. It offers IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service); co-location services, which include housing and other data center solutions; hosting services, which include data center solutions to support e-business; security services; IP address/domain name registration services; network services; and service level agreement services. IDC Frontier Inc. is based in Tokyo, Japan, and as of February 2nd, 2009, operates as a subsidiary of Yahoo! Japan Corporation.
http://www.idcf.jp/english/cloud/

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