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Article: Whirlpool gives IP address management a spin; After closing its acquisition of Maytag, the home appliance manufacturer put tools in place to better manage DNS, DHCP and IP addresses across 200 locations.
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- Network World
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- March 14, 2007
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Byline: Denise Dubie
While Whirlpool focuses on the business of making kitchen and laundry appliances, lead network engineer Gregory Fisbeck
keeps his eye on thousands of IP addresses.
With some 80,000 employees and 200 locations worldwide, Whirlpool network staff has always had its hands full managing multiple
DNS zones and thousands of IP addresses. But last year's acquisition of Maytag increased Whirlpool's eight or nine DNS zones
under management to some 16, shining a spotlight on a much-needed operational upgrade, Fisbeck says.
"The workload not only increased, it literally doubled, and we don't have staff ...