Case Study: Boyd Gaming achieves minimal downtime and 24-second role swaps with Precisely's Assure iTERA HA

Boyd Gaming - Customer Case Study

Boyd Gaming, a 24/7 gaming and hospitality operator, needed a high-availability (HA) solution to eliminate out-of-sync conditions and guarantee repeatable role swaps with zero tolerance for downtime. Business Recovery Manager Jim Ravens evaluated vendors and selected Precisely’s Assure iTERA HA to protect critical hotel, gaming and financial applications running on IBM System i servers.

Precisely implemented Assure iTERA HA on Boyd Gaming’s IBM i 820 servers, enabling full data replication, rapid role swaps and continuous mirroring across OS upgrades. The team completed an initial role swap in about five minutes, ran front‑office production on the backup for six weeks with no data integrity issues, and achieved role swaps in as little as 24 seconds. The solution reduced planned and unplanned downtime, eliminated out‑of‑sync conditions, and saved roughly six hours of user downtime during the hardware migration.

Boyd Gaming

Jim Ravens

Business Recovery Manager