Emerald Queen Casino With Actifio

Actifio, Inc. announced that its Copy storage platform has been implemented by Emerald Queen Casino (EQC), a casino operated by the Puyallup Indian Tribe, offering Vegas-style gaming, live entertainment and professional boxing.

EQC looked to Actifio to manage over 10PB of storage, backup its data more quickly and often, restore data across two offsite locations (each with 84 servers), and operate 24×7 to support users at all times. It will be using Actifio to protect and access all of its production application data, including its point of sales, daily hotel management system, casino marketplace management system, financial applications, files servers, and staff time clock.

Using Actifio, EQC will:

• Eliminate tape from its environment-saving between $30-50k each fiscal year on tapes alone;
• Save $100k annually on backup administration costs-an expensive and time consuming process that is now completed three times a day at a fraction of the cost;
• Complete file server backups in minutes;
• Recover from a disaster wihin hours versus the days it took previously;
• Deduplicate data from one of its locations to the other;
• Recover data instantly and send it to employees within minutes.

Compliance and regulatory concerns were a key factor for EQC when evaluating technologies, given its need to perform a backup, duplicate, and restore process in real-time during onsite audits. EQC had to be able to test the backup and DR capabilities of the servers in real-time, and is now able to do so. With Actifio, ECQ also has the ability to duplicate and test its environment without playing with the live data in order to predict how an upgrade will affect the live environment.

“With Actifio I have the assurance that if even one of our two locations were to burn to the ground, I could access everything in a matter of minutes, with no problems. The platform is performing flawlessly for us, but the best part is the freedom it’s given my team from the stresses and time demands of complex and often inefficient processes,” said David Bonds, IT director, EQC. “Actifio is one of two major technology platforms I’ve put in place during my 13 year tenure at EQC, and it’s already getting some attention from our peers. Several other companies have already been onsite to see the product in action, and each has been impressed enough to recommend it to others.”

Actifio Copy storage is optimized for managing copies of data, eliminating redundant silos of infrastructure and data management applications. By virtualizing the management and retention of data, it transforms the need for multiple data silos and point tools deployed for backup, DR, BC, compliance, analytics, and test and development into one, SLA-driven, virtualized storage system.

“We’re pleased to see Emerald Queen Casino betting on Actifio to deliver a more resilient, ‘always on’ operation,” said Ash Ashutosh, Actifio CEO. “This perfectly illustrates the power of our copy data management platform, enabling world-class organizations to deliver on world-class application SLA’s. We’ve demonstrated again with Actifio, in the real world, that saving time and money, while easing the stresses of managing a tremendous amount of regulated data, is not only possible but also simple.”