©2017 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved CHALLENGE In October of 2016, GCGC decided to rollout Bally’s new Gaming Management System (GMS) to three of its casinos. “Planning was well under way when a change cut the time to deploy the new systems in half,” said Robin Killeen, GCGC’s director of technical development. “We had to decide on a hardware platform for the deployment, have the gear shipped, installed, and running in less than eight weeks.” A gaming management system is the application that controls all of the game logic and playability on the casino floor. “Our GMS is a fairly complicated environment with 45 different servers,” explained Mark Poitras, IT systems architect at GCGC. “It isn’t a small task to find enough hardware and horsepower to pull all that together when yo

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