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Casino Rolls the Dice With a VTL: Page 3 of 3

Another plus is the company improved its data redundancy. Tapes are now placed in an off-site data vault, which is located nine miles away and serves as a disaster recovery location.

Recently, Foxwoods has been looking at another technology that VTL vendors as well as other storage suppliers have been pushing -- data de-duplication, which allows companies to eliminate redundant information so they can store more data in the same amount of space. Foxwoods would like to take advantage of the technology, but has put such plans on hold for the moment. "Like other companies we now are in a zero growth period and simply not making any new major investments," says Grillo.

In sum, the casino's decision to move to VTL proved to be a good choice and has improved its backup procedures. Additional enhancements loom on the horizon but will not be realized until the economy begins to pick up, proving that not even casinos are immune to nationwide economic downturns.