Case Study: Red Hawk Casino eliminates tape complexity and achieves instant recovery with Rubrik

Red Hawk Casino Eliminates Tape Complexity with Rubrik and AWS

Red Hawk Casino, a 24/7 gaming resort near Sacramento operated by the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, manages thousands of gaming and back‑office systems. Its IT team was burdened by complex, time‑consuming tape-based backups — daily monitoring and biweekly archiving, slow and hard‑to‑test restores, application “stunning” of transactional databases, and RTOs that could stretch from hours to weeks.

By deploying Rubrik’s converged data management appliance and using AWS S3 for long‑term retention, Red Hawk eliminated tape, gained global real‑time search, instant VM mounting for fast recovery and testing, and crash‑consistent snapshots for high‑change SQL workloads. The result was RTOs reduced to minutes, greatly simplified management and deployments, and hard savings including a 50% reduction in HW/SW acquisition spend and a 60% reduction in annual maintenance and services costs.

Red Hawk Casino

Jake Warren

Systems Administrator