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Simplifying the IT merger of its entities with DDI

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Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Use Cases	Infrastructure Inspection Remote Collaboration
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services System Integration
Challenge	The University of Grenoble Alpes, one of the main centres of higher education in France, was created with the merger of several institutions. This merger led to the need for a unified and centralized management of the DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM). The university needed to create a platform capable of managing all its addressing plans, while ensuring the delegation of rights so that the various users could also manage their addressing parameters. Some entities were already using EfficientIP, while others were using Infoblox’s solution, or ISC’s open source DNS BIND and DHCP servers. The challenge was to create a single, resilient and high-performance DDI base that could support and accompany the migration of all IT services of the university’s various entities. Read More
About Customer	The University of Grenoble Alpes is one of the main centres of higher education in France. With almost 60,000 students, the institution is spread over more than 200 buildings and hosts in addition to students, 3,000 research professors and 3,700 collaborators. The university was created with the merger of the Universities of Grenoble (1, 2 and 3), the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble and the Institut d’études politiques de Grenoble in 2016. The merger led to the creation of a central IT department, which was tasked with the challenge of unifying and centralising the management of the DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM). Read More
Solution	The University of Grenoble chose the EfficientIP solution over the Infoblox solution for its flexibility, ease of use and more advanced and granular delegation tools. The university migrated its whole DDI infrastructure to the SOLIDserver solution. This first step allowed the university to rationalise the number of servers needed to manage it, reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the solution by over 40%. The university then provided each of its entities with dedicated access to the central administration platform to manage their DNS, DHCP and IP addressing plan services. This means 280 technicians from the different entities can meet the needs of the various local users. The IPAM serves as the «Network Source of Truth» or unique network data repository. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Use Cases

Infrastructure Inspection

Remote Collaboration

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

System Integration

Challenge

The University of Grenoble Alpes, one of the main centres of higher education in France, was created with the merger of several institutions. This merger led to the need for a unified and centralized management of the DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM). The university needed to create a platform capable of managing all its addressing plans, while ensuring the delegation of rights so that the various users could also manage their addressing parameters. Some entities were already using EfficientIP, while others were using Infoblox’s solution, or ISC’s open source DNS BIND and DHCP servers. The challenge was to create a single, resilient and high-performance DDI base that could support and accompany the migration of all IT services of the university’s various entities.

About Customer

The University of Grenoble Alpes is one of the main centres of higher education in France. With almost 60,000 students, the institution is spread over more than 200 buildings and hosts in addition to students, 3,000 research professors and 3,700 collaborators. The university was created with the merger of the Universities of Grenoble (1, 2 and 3), the Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble and the Institut d’études politiques de Grenoble in 2016. The merger led to the creation of a central IT department, which was tasked with the challenge of unifying and centralising the management of the DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM).

Solution

The University of Grenoble chose the EfficientIP solution over the Infoblox solution for its flexibility, ease of use and more advanced and granular delegation tools. The university migrated its whole DDI infrastructure to the SOLIDserver solution. This first step allowed the university to rationalise the number of servers needed to manage it, reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the solution by over 40%. The university then provided each of its entities with dedicated access to the central administration platform to manage their DNS, DHCP and IP addressing plan services. This means 280 technicians from the different entities can meet the needs of the various local users. The IPAM serves as the «Network Source of Truth» or unique network data repository.

Impact #1	The implementation of a single data source from EfficientIP’s DDI solution benefits other IT teams at the University. The teams responsible for networks rely on it to obtain a clear and granular view of the infrastructure and thus anticipate needs and load increases.
Impact #2	The University of Grenoble provides each of its entities with a high level of autonomy in managing their IP addresses and DNS zones while maintaining a single data repository.
Impact #3	The integrated DDI automation and flexibility provided by EfficientIP allows the university to be more efficient in managing its DDI, while ensuring the maximum performance and availability of related services for users.

Impact #1

The implementation of a single data source from EfficientIP’s DDI solution benefits other IT teams at the University. The teams responsible for networks rely on it to obtain a clear and granular view of the infrastructure and thus anticipate needs and load increases.

Impact #2

The University of Grenoble provides each of its entities with a high level of autonomy in managing their IP addresses and DNS zones while maintaining a single data repository.

Impact #3

The integrated DDI automation and flexibility provided by EfficientIP allows the university to be more efficient in managing its DDI, while ensuring the maximum performance and availability of related services for users.

Benefit #1	Cost of ownership reduced by about 40%
Benefit #2	Configuration errors on IP addressing reduced by over 30%

Benefit #1

Cost of ownership reduced by about 40%

Benefit #2

Configuration errors on IP addressing reduced by over 30%

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Simplifying the IT merger of its entities with DDI

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