Infoblox can automate the delivery and DNS management on your network and ensure that your DNS infrastructure is up to today’s demanding standards. Infoblox appliances can also consolidate your servers and eliminate layers of complex, error-prone network tasks that drive up your costs and jeopardize availability of your network. With Infoblox appliances, you can reduce the capital and operating costs of your network by up to 50%, while boosting availability and application performance.
Key Benefits
- Purpose-built DNS appliance for optimum performance and reliability
- Multiple high-availability and failover options
- Scalable family of hardware and virtual appliances, including virtual appliances for VMware, Cisco ISR and Riverbed Steelhead appliances
Challenges
Essentially all IP applications—web browsing, e-mail, VoIP, wireless, and many more—rely on the availability of robust Domain Name System (DNS). Reliance on DNS is amplified by Microsoft Active Directory's dependence on DNS resolution as a core service. Newer corporate initiatives, including virtualization and cloud computing, are compelling organizations to revisit their DNS managmement infrastructure. Infoblox can help you keep your DNS infrastructure up to date and operating with cost-reducing efficiency.
Traditionally, organizations have depended on freeware and DNS management software supplied with the operating system software. It is not uncommon to see BIND servers running on a UNIX platform for external authoritative DNS services, and DNS server software supplied with Microsoft Server operating systems for caching and internal DNS infrastructure. Availability needs, cost reduction initiatives and newly discovered DNS security vulnerabilities in the DNS protocol demand that appliance-based DNS configuration infrastructure support ongoing business continuity.
Infoblox can automate the delivery and management of DNS configuration on your network and ensure that your DNS management infrastructure is up to today’s demanding standards. Infoblox can also consolidate your servers and eliminate layers of complex, error-prone network tasks that drive up your costs and jeopardize availability of your network. With Infoblox, you can reduce the capital and operating costs of your network by up to 50%, while boosting availability and application performance.
Features
Infoblox NIOS appliances provide a turnkey DNS resolution solution that is highly secure, automated and resilient. Infrastructure based on an Infoblox DNS appliance can help organizations achieve their key initiative goals while decreasing costs and increasing DNS security and availability.
- Secure and scalable internal / external DNS management ensures business continuity
- Highly resilient DNS configuration infrastructure supports key IT initiatives, e.g. virtualization, cloud computing and disaster recovery
- Centralized DNS management reduces operating expenses and increases organizational flexibility
- Integrated within the Infoblox DNS, DHCP and IP address management appliances
- Patented Grid technology allows ongoing operation against the failure of individual appliances
- Easy Disaster Recovery with no data corruption, errors, or loss to ensure network infrastructure services availability
- Simplified and unified management of devices and data with real-time, secure, system-wide data updates
- Intelligent auto-provisioning for easy pre-staging and auto-recovery of devices for effortless upgrades
- Industry-standard DNS/DNSSEC services using the latest BIND implementation plus additional DNS attack detection, alerting and mitigation features
- Combined management views and automation of tasks through integration of DNS/DNSSEC and DHCP services
- One-button software upgrades that make it easy to add new features and to remain secure
- Rule-based DNS filtering and Blacklisting which enables policy controlled DNS redirection
- Secure DNS management using SSL-based VPN that works from anywhere, through any firewall
- Infoblox Views—an enhanced version of BIND Views—provides virtual DNS services & allows a single Infoblox appliance to respond differently to DNS queries based on the source of the query
Benefits of Appliance-Based DNS Management
Hardened, highly available, resilient appliances
Infoblox’s automated, standards-based, Microsoft-certified DNS and DHCP appliances drop into your existing environment and provide a more scalable, reliable, manageable and secure foundation for your applications. Everything from Microsoft Active Directory and web applications to ERP and IP telephony runs better on Infoblox infrastructure. Whether your organization’s network environment relies on Microsoft or other technologies, Infoblox appliances deliver utility-grade services and management options.
Infoblox appliances are purpose-built, high-performance hardware devices that form the foundation of Infoblox network infrastructure control solutions. Infoblox appliances ship standard with the security-hardened Infoblox NIOS® software and support a variety of Infoblox software packages tailored for specific applications. All models can be deployed individually or in high-availability (HA) pairs for optimal service resiliency.
Appliance platforms provide the key benefits of performance, reliability, resilience and manageability in a network infrastructure deployment. Nearly all devices used for network infrastructure (routers, firewalls, gateways, etc.) are deployed as appliances and have been for nearly two decades. Infoblox provides network infrastructure services as the last major component of network infrastructure that is still deployed using white box server hardware.
- Purpose-built for optimum performance and reliability
- Multiple high-availability and failover options
- Scalable family of hardware and virtual appliances, including virtual appliances for VMware, Cisco ISR and Riverbed Steelhead appliances
Demos & Resources
See the power of network automation and control in action
Since every network environment is unique, the best way to see the power of the Infoblox solutions is to request a one-on-one, interactive demo. Our experts will discuss your current requirements and future needs, and tailor the presentation to cover the aspects most critical to you.
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