Case Study: U.S. Government Laboratory achieves centralized, error‑free DNS management with BlueCat Networks' DNS Integrity

U.S. Government Laboratory - Customer Case Study

A U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory — the nation’s leading center for nuclear energy R&D with 3,900 employees and a $917.1M annual business volume — faced a DNS management crisis. Network segmentation between enclaves for U.S. citizens and foreign nationals required separate Microsoft DNS administration and manual spreadsheets, causing frequent errors, outages, and slow help-desk response as hosts were added and removed.

BlueCat implemented its DNS Integrity solution to centralize and automate DNS management, migrating and rationalizing records while reserving IP blocks to preserve enclave separation. The single authoritative DNS portal eliminated conflicting host records and downtime, sped up add/delete tasks, improved IT productivity and response times, and freed network staff to focus on higher‑value work.