LAS VEGAS Station Casinos Inc. is stressed to reorder below Chapter 11 insolvency defense a responsibility that's particularly hard because this area's 14% joblessness rate is upsetting its core customer base.

But IT bureaucrats at casino and hotel chain say that they've originate a silver lining amongst the dark financial clouds new communications technologies that they've been clever to organize thanks to a multimillion-dollar investment in IT more than the precedent two years.

"There's totally savings on our charges with these technologies," said Van Baltz, a vice president and chief technology officer at Station Casinos, in an interview. Baltz wouldn't count the savings that the new systems have delivered, but at one point through the interview he said the return on investment has been "violently" better than predictable.

"It's a resist, but we consider our technology is creation us the best supplier in the business," Baltz said. Station Casinos, which runs 18 casinos and hotels that are situated off the Vegas Strip and chiefly serve residents of the Las Vegas area quite than tourists, is considering major benefits from the heavy investment in united communications, combined computing and wireless technology, said corporation officials supplementary journalists on a tour of the Red Rock Casino and Resort here during the Cisco Live meeting this week.