Case Study: Ameristar Casinos achieves dramatic downtime reduction and 43% hardware cost savings with Vision Solutions iTERA HA and Vision Director

Ameristar Casinos - Customer Case Study

Ameristar Casinos, a Las Vegas–based gaming and entertainment company with eight casinos across seven U.S. markets and roughly 8,500 employees, faced an aging, geographically dispersed server environment built on leased, end-of-life hardware. To support growth and acquisitions while minimizing planned and unplanned downtime, the IT team sought a consolidation and technology refresh with strong high-availability and fast failover capabilities.

Working with Agilysys and Vision Solutions, Ameristar consolidated five servers onto two IBM Power Systems mirrored with iTERA HA and Vision Director (one primary running live environments and one real-time offsite backup). Virtual role swaps and tested failovers enabled semi-annual continuity drills with minimal user impact. Results included reducing annual downtime from 540 to 32 hours, cutting Power Systems costs by 43% over three years, faster integration of acquired properties, improved application performance, and low HA administrative overhead.

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