Improve Return on Investment with the UltraDNS integrated suite of managed DNS services
Learn how a leading financial security company leveraged our Managed External DNS and Managed Internal DNS Service to improve ROI
Introduction
A leading financial security company is focused on providing personalized investment advice and portfolio management to 401(k) participants. The company serves millions of employees at many of America's largest corporations. Patented advice technology and institutional-quality investment methodology allow the company to offer an array of advisory services to meet the needs of all investors. The company has relationships with the nation’s leading retirement plan service providers and record keepers, and many global 1000 companies.
Enterprise Challenges
The company’s current internal and external DNS infrastructure was difficult to administer and as the organization became increasingly dependent on DNS and DHCP services, there was a need for a secure, and cost effective solution to manage mission critical services. Additionally, the company was looking to offload system responsibility for authoritative DNS and maintain control, while ensuring consistent, accurate resolution of all your domains on the internet.
The UltraDNS Solution
- The company initially signed up for the UltraDNS External Managed DNS offering for improving the performance of their business critical web sites and extended the solution to support their internal DNS management.
- The UltraDNS Management Portal provided the company with integrated DNS/DHCP management that allowed centralized control for global DNS/DHCP environment and delegation to local administrators. Portal’s advanced reporting features for traffic analysis helped the company in taking better IT decisions.
- Through the UltraDNS Directory Gateway Appliances deployed within the company’s internal network, DNS/DHCP resolution was provided locally, minimizing latency and maximizing reliability of service. Through this combination of global data management and local resolution, UltraDNS helped the customer reduce the overall costs of managing mission critical DNS and DHCP services, while increasing performance and scalability.
- The Managed Services which is built on a global directory platform and deployed at strategically placed network nodes across 5 continents helped the company easily scale as their DNS requirements increased ensuring near real time DNS resolution with the latest data.
Benefits
By deploying the UltraDNSManaged External DNS and Internal DNS services, the company got the best of both worlds – a scalable and reliable solution that could scale with their growth and lower total cost of ownership (TCO) due to no upfront investments in new hardware or software. The company estimates an average ROI of ~43% when compared to other appliance only solution choices in the market.
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