Case Study: Aristocrat Technologies achieves always-on jackpot availability with Stratus Technologies everRun FT software

Stratus Delivers Always-On Jackpot Availability For Global Gaming Solution

Aristocrat Technologies, a global leader in casino gaming hardware and software, deployed a new Multi-Site Progressive (MSP) jackpot system that links slot machines across many sites. Because the MSP depends on a Windows/SQL Server back-end, Nevada regulators require redundancy to prevent downtime—any database outage would lock games and risk substantial lost revenue as the system scales to hundreds of sites and thousands of machines.

Aristocrat evaluated Microsoft clustering and Stratus everRun FT software and chose everRun for true continuous availability that eliminates clustering failover. Stratus engineers worked with Aristocrat’s team to deploy the solution, keeping jackpots online and protecting revenue-generating equipment; Aristocrat plans to expand the MSP rollout and expects to realize ROI within 12 months as deployments grow.

Aristrocrat Technologies

Adam Goldstein

Director of Information Technology