Executive Summary
Small to medium sized business have typically built their own DNS and DHCP services, used Windows DNS/DHCP or turned to a hosted service provider for one or both of these services. This approach can initially appear to offer tremendous cost savings, but contains many hidden costs and risks that are not always apparent until a catastrophic loss of service occurs.
DNS and DHCP services have been commonplace in the infrastructure of the Internet, and many networks, for a long time and as such, are often overlooked. This lack of attention can lead to issues related to configuring and managing these services, as well as security issues and increased risk. Ultimately, this can put your core mission-critical applications at risk.
BlueCat Networks offers the most comprehensive and affordable solution to this dilemma on the market today in the Adonis DNS/DHCP Appliance. A wizard driven, feature-rich graphical interface and built-in error checking make Adonis the most intuitive solution on the market for managing DNS and DHCP. Adonis is designed around a security-hardened appliance and can operate safely in the most hostile network environments. Best of all, Adonis is also the most cost effective solution available for DNs and DHCP with the lowest TCO in its class.
Solutions that are employed for core network functionality must be compatible with existing infrastructure and must be easy to use while also providing secure and dependable service. When designing a solution that will be used by different administrators in different environments, the feature set of the product contributes to both the usefulness and usability of the solution. These factors are closely related to the performance of the solution since a usable solution with the appropriate feature set requires less labor to set up and maintain, and is more likely to be configured correctly. Also, when the appropriate feature set is included, fewer workarounds render the network more functional and secure with fewer design compromises. This results in more secure networks since the features in the product are used exactly as designed.
All of the features in Adonis can be summarized by three reasons to buy the appliance: improved network manageability, risk mitigation, and reduced costs. The Adonis appliance has been designed with the needs of small to medium-sized businesses in mind through its user-focused interface, proven feature set, and ironclad security. When the cost savings of the Adonis solution are factored in, there is simply no better solution for providing the DNS and DHCP services on which your business depends.
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