DNSBOX takes Somerset Care of it
Somerset Care has around 50 sites across southern England, including care homes, respite centres and satellite offices, each with 20 devices. Routers at each site forwarded DHCP to a pair of Windows servers at the main office, hosting another 200 devices. However, a planned move to Azure cloud-based networking meant losing existing Windows server DHCP functionality. It would also magnify the impact of losing network service should connectivity fail.
IT Manager Peter Beale wanted to find a resilient solution that would deliver best value for his budget, ideally while helping to simplify the administration of his evolving network. Foreseeing the need to include IP address management (IPAM) in future, he also needed it to be flexible enough to add it later without undue effort or cost.
After a demonstration of DNSBOX's modular features and intuitive interface, Peter was hooked. Not only would it make DHCP and DNS administration straightforward and far easier to manage, but he could also seamlessly add IPAM as well when he needed it.
Peter could affordably purchase 2 DNSBOX200s and implemented active-active failover across Somerset Care's respective datacentre locations. Using a second appliance for redundancy guaranteed the uptime needed for his now cloud-based applications.
