Rotherham Council addresses government cuts with the appointment of EfficientIP

Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council has turned to network services provider, EfficientIP, to deliver IT services to 4,100 active users.

Like most local authorities and government bodies in the UK, Rotherham Council has been hit with regular government cuts. In the last five years alone, the council had to save over £100m.

To combat these cuts and continue providing local government services such as Council Tax billing, libraries, transport, housing, planning applications or waste collection to a population of 260,000 people, the council’s IT team needed to seek a new replacement solution.

Rotherham employs two data centres to handle the IT for the entire council and has 500+ DHCP-defined networks installed across the grid. This infrastructure handles IP requests from clients, printers and other network devices.

The team started evaluating solutions from multiple vendors, including Infoblox and BlueCat, to provide DHCP service management for existing servers and future needs.

Commenting on choosing EfficientIP, Kevin Waller, implementation team manager of Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, said: “From the three solutions we looked at, the value for money from EfficientIP stood out.”

EfficientIP engineers’ efficiency and expertise was the biggest win, according to Kevin, who added: “As an IT department, we do a lot of complex migration projects with third parties but I can’t think of one that has gone as smoothly as the one with EfficientIP.”

The implementation process has taken two months. Since then, the team has done numerous upgrades and no issues have occurred.

Kevin commented: “We feel comfortable for the other projects. The product is good, it doesn’t feel like we’ve switched solutions, we’ve not lost any functionality or had impacts on service.”

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