Black Gaming Beats the Odds, Wins Big with Lakeview's MIMIX HA for 24/7 Casino Uptime.Solves Nagging Downtime The time during which a computer is not functioning due to hardware, operating system or application program failure. Headaches after Lakeview's Free Audit Service Uncovers 20,000 Unseen Replication Errors ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Lakeview Technology, the leading provider of information availability software for IBM System i The IBM System i (formerly known as iSeries, AS/400, and Application System/400) is a minicomputer platform produced by IBM. It was officially introduced as the AS/400 in 1988. , today announced that Black Gaming Operations, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control ., Mesquite, Nevada Mesquite is a city in Clark County, Nevada, United States, adjacent to the Arizona state line and 77 miles (124 km) northeast of Las Vegas. As of the 2000 federal census, it had a population of 9,389, with a 2005 census estimate of 13,523. , has taken advantage of Lakeview's Safe Passage program and switched from Vision Solutions' Echo2 software to Lakeview's MIMIX solution to ensure automated 24/7 uninterrupted casino and hotel services. "The HA solution we were using actually created downtime problems for us," said Justin Nelson, Black Gaming's director of IT Support. "Replacing our former HA system with MIMIX saved Black Gaming thousands of dollars in manual labor costs alone and ensures we have business continuity." Nelson was concerned by an ongoing problem with weekly IT downtime, despite using the Echo2 software. This compromised the health of Black Gaming's HA environment and put their critical data at risk. "Lakeview performed a no cost HA solution audit using MIMIX FactFinder and found we had more than 20,000 replication errors," Nelson added. The main culprit was journaling problems between the primary server and the failover back-up server, errors that the previous software neither fixed automatically nor alerted Nelson to the discrepancies. Instead, Nelson and staff developed "Band-Aid fixes" to handle the problems resulting in hours of manual labor. With the new MIMIX HA solution, however, Black Gaming's data, applications, and systems are protected, available and accessible, regardless of interruptions. Nelson is confident that the risk of downtime is virtually eliminated. Like other casinos, Black Gaming needs to manage vast amounts of financial data, keeping it available 24/7, while meeting strict government regulatory requirements Regulatory requirements are part of the process of drug discovery and drug development. Regulatory requirements describe what is necessary for a new drug to be approved for marketing in any particular country. . Compliance with all of the regulations depends on access to accurate, current data and critical applications, so Black Gaming had to move quickly to eliminate the risks associated with their downtime issues and improve and automate their internal control process. "Our former high availability Also called "RAS" (reliability, availability, serviceability) or "fault resilient," it refers to a multiprocessing system that can quickly recover from a failure. There may be a minute or two of downtime while one system switches over to another, but processing will continue. solution wasn't capable of replicating the production environment to a backup server A computer in a network used to store copies of files from client machines or other servers. Such servers typically have their disks set up in a RAID configuration to provide fault tolerance. See backup program, RAID, SAN and LAN free backup. in real-time. We didn't have the time to do role-swapping on a planned basis, and ultimately we began to experience downtime on a monthly basis. In a 24/7 operation, instability in a business-critical solution is a very bad sign. Buyer's remorse Definition Buyer's remorse is an emotional condition whereby a person feels remorse or regret after a purchase. It is frequently associated with the purchase of higher value items such as property, cars, computers, jewelry, etc. was keeping us up at night." Using Agilysys' Lodging Management System and Materials Management Materials management is the branch of logistics that deals with the tangible components of a supply chain. Specifically, this covers the acquisition of spare parts and replacements, quality control of purchasing and ordering such parts, and the standards involved in ordering, System, Infor's Infinium Financials and Kronos' Time and Attendance, Black Gaming protects its systems with MIMIX for i5/OS. MIMIX replicates changes to data between its i550 and i520 servers in real time with zero data loss. MIMIX's innovative automation and self-managing features enable Black Gaming to easily replicate production data to the backup server, fix any issues with the data or objects automatically, and eliminate all planned downtime. Daily data maintenance/backups are now performed without interruption to users. This boosts productivity, reduces IT labor costs and ensures continuous operations. Most important, Nelson now feels confident about his HA environment; the software manages itself and ensures there are no journaling errors to lose sleep over. Without real-time or automated capabilities, Nelson estimates his staff was spending 45 hours per month on all of the maintenance and back up work required to support their former HA solution. With MIMIX, that time is reduced to minutes per day. "Now we can focus on proactive efforts such as enhanced reporting and business intelligence that we can use to improve the customer experience at Black Gaming," Nelson added. Finding the right HA solution is critical. Nelson recommends companies take the time to talk with peers and partners to be 100% confident about their HA system selection. Nelson defines "real" HA solutions as those that combine 4 essential elements: * Live, real-time role swapping - A huge advantage for certifying the integrity of the back up system. The back up server takes over automatically if the primary server fails. Significant time and resource savings benefits. * Single source support - Agilisys now has certified MIMIX installation and support personnel that can service the hardware, the HA solution, and the applications. * Web-based monitoring - MIMIX ha1 has a web-based GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. , requiring only minutes a day to monitor and manage systems. * Dynamic Apply[TM] - an industry first, remote journaling "with a brain" that automatically determines direct or multithreaded multithreaded - multithreading apply; dramatically accelerates the speed, accuracy and efficiency of data replication. Administrators can view how journaling is being performed. About MIMIX FactFinder MIMIX FactFinder is a free remote service that identifies the data and objects that are out of sync Out of Sync: A Memoir is the upcoming autobiography of American pop singer Lance Bass, set to be published on October 23, 2007. It features an introduction by Marc Eliot, a New York Times in a non-MIMIX HA environment. Utilizing the advanced auditing capabilities of MIMIX AutoGuard technology, FactFinder performs an audit of your HA environment and provides a detailed report regarding the health of your HA environment. FactFinder will let you know exactly how reliable the current HA solution is and the elements that may be at risk in your HA environment. FactFinder does not impede im·pede tr.v. im·ped·ed, im·ped·ing, im·pedes To retard or obstruct the progress of. See Synonyms at hinder1. [Latin imped system performance or cause any permanent changes to your environment. For more information, call 1.800.573.8371 or send us an email at www.requests@lakeviewtech.com. About Safe Passage Program The Safe Passage Program offers a no-risk lifeline life·line n. 1. a. An anchored line thrown as a support to someone falling or drowning. b. A line shot to a ship in distress. c. A line used to raise and lower deep-sea divers. 2. for businesses concerned about the future of their high availability systems following the recent merger between second tier vendors. The Program draws on Lakeview's 15+ years of IBM System i experience and provides companies a clear product roadmap to avoid the uncertainties arising out of the recent merger: * Best-in-class MIMIX[R] software - customers instantly gain the benefits of MIMIX([R]) software - easy, innovative, affordable solutions. * No capital outlay capital outlay See capital expenditure. - Customers benefit from a simple, flexible subscription. * On-demand expertise - Lakeview's global team is on call, 24/7 to ensure customer success. For more information about this important Safe Passage Program, call 1.800.573.8371 or go to http://www.lakeviewtech.com/technology/safe_passage_program.asp. About Lakeview Technology Inc. Lakeview Technology is the information availability company, providing high availability, data protection and data integration software solutions and services to businesses of all sizes. Lakeview's innovative technology ensures the availability of business information so customers can increase productivity, reduce costs, and satisfy service level and compliance requirements Compliance requirements are a series of directives established by United States Federal government agencies that summarize hundreds of Federal laws and regulations applicable to Federal assistance (also known as Federal aid or Federal funds). . Affordable and easy to use, Lakeview solutions support i5/OS[TM], AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. [R], Windows[R] and Linux[R] operating environments In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . For more than 15 years, companies around the world have made Lakeview Technology the one to count on for information availability. For more information, please visit www.lakeviewtech.com. (c)Copyright 2007 Lakeview Technology Inc. All Rights Reserved. MIMIX[R] is a trademark of Lakeview Technology. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are property of their respective holders. |
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