Reducing CAPEX and OPEX
In today's around-the-clock business environment, organizations of all sizes must limit or prevent downtime to critical applications. But traditional clustering and failover methods for maintaining high availability require in-house expertise, intensive IT support, application modifications, and capital equipment investments.
Marathon Technologies makes always-on computing affordable and practical for a wide range of applications. As a software solution, it leverages existing hardware, and does not require an expensive Storage Area Network (SAN), reducing capital expenditures. It practically runs itself, so IT staff can focus on strategic initiatives rather than preventative measures.
everRun Pays Off for Station Casinos
Station Casinos provides gaming and entertainment in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. The Station Casinos franchise includes eight major gaming and entertainment complexes, each with its own Windows-based Acres Gaming applications to manage accounting and player tracking for slot machine operations.
Station Casinos wanted a simple, affordable way to ensure high availability for their slot machine accounting and player tracking systems. In addition, because the IT staff is not immediately available at each property 24/7, they also needed a high availability solution that did not require manual intervention to restore operations after a failure.
"The player tracking and bonusing systems are critically important to our operations," said Steven Bastille, IT Director, Server and Desktop Systems, Station Casinos. "We needed a sound technology to protect them that would not require specialized training, added staff, or increased IT resources."
Station Casinos worked with system integrator, VTEC, Inc., to implement systems that were protected with Marathon’s everRun® software. With the Marathon systems, the Acres applications have operated continuously. The systems deliver 99.999%+ availability and full protection from faults, component failures, and network connection failures.
"The benefits of using Marathon go beyond the obvious improved availability of the applications," said Bastille. "When a problem occurs, the property does not have to wait for a specialist to arrive and the IT staff don't have to come in during off hours on an emergency call. That's good for morale."
Always On IT Can Be Cost-Effective With everRun
Marathon everRun proves that "always on" IT doesn't have to be expensive or require teams of experts. Using everRun, you can leverage existing investments in storage and off-the-shelf hardware, reducing CAPEX. The everRun solution installs quickly, without a big services engagement or application modifications, and practically runs itself.
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