Case Study: Hard Rock Hotel & Casino achieves 24.7.365 availability and $150,000/year savings with Veeam

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Rocks 24.7.365 Availability with Veeam; Saves $150,000 Per Year

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas, a 2,200‑employee resort famous for live music, gaming and hospitality, needed its IT systems to be available 24.7.365 to support keycard access, automated minibars, hundreds of POS terminals and casino operations. Legacy backup was slow and only supported once‑a‑day backups with multi‑hour recoveries—risking guest experience, loyalty and revenue during peak convention seasons where even a short outage would be costly.

The resort deployed Veeam Availability Suite to protect hundreds of VMware VMs, enabling frequent backups, rapid restores in minutes and enterprise‑grade scalability. The move eliminated expensive legacy licensing and hardware, saving about $150,000 annually, improved confidence in continuous availability, and set the stage to use Veeam Availability Orchestrator for streamlined DR testing and audit compliance.

Hard Rock Hotel & Casino

Kevin Ragsdale

Director of IT