International Game Technology provides and manages gaming systems for casinos and online gaming sites. They've got a long history of innovation and are doing some amazing things to change what's possible in the gaming industry.

Check out today's press release to learn more about how IGT and CA Technologies are working together.

When I interviewed IGT's CTO, Christopher Satchell, (appropriately) in Las Vegas recently for our Cloud Luminaries series, I was fascinated to learn about a cloud-based casino management system they are pioneering, which is built on the CA AppLogic cloud platform. IGT can provide casinos with server-based gaming consoles that can be adjusted on the fly to rotate in different games. It also includes social media components so the players can share scores and compete with their friends. This server-based technology allows IGT to gather and analyze data to provide guidance on what additional games a given user would be interested in playing, which games are most popular at certain times of the day and which games should be positioned near each other to maximize revenue. Using these techniques, IGT was able to help Casino Evian in France increase the amount of revenue generated on the casino floor by 20 percent - a remarkable improvement.

It's a really compelling value proposition, made even more so by the fact that customers don't need to make a large up-front investment to try out these capabilities.

Watch the full video interview to learn more about how IGT is leveraging cloud computing to change what's possible in the gaming industry.

And check out the rest of the Cloud Luminaries site for more perspectives and guidance from industry experts, enterprises and service providers on the leading-edge of cloud computing.