IP address management is streamlined so the task is faster and can be shared — rather than being a full-time job

Challenge

As the Medical Center rapidly expanded, tracking IP addresses manually with spreadsheets had become increasing cumbersome, and by 2006 was a full-time job. Ken Rudolph, Network Engineering-Infrastructure, recalls: “I was given this task, which had the potential to completely monopolize my working day and take me away from my networking responsibilities.”
Making this challenge even more daunting was the vendor of the old IP management system: the equipment and software were not kept up-to-date, the service was substandard, and licensing was per address — so that each year the Medical Center was relentlessly getting less for more.