Boise State ditches Cisco DNS

"We didn't want to pay the price for upgrading the software; it became extremely expensive," Dragone says.

Dragone explored several alternatives, including DNS software from Novell, MicrosoftMicrosoft and Men & Mice. But eventually she zeroed in on appliances, and ended up testing devices from BlueCat and Infoblox. Alles zu Microsoft auf CIO.de

Boise State bought two BlueCat Adonis 1000 appliances, which are set up to be redundant to each other. The retail cost of the two appliances was $26,000.

"It came down to cost," Dragone says. "Plus, there were a couple things in the [interface] of the management system that I liked better, but they were very small."

Dragone said installation of the Adonis 1000s was easy.