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Controlyour network.
Control isFreedom.
Take ControlRadical shifts in technology are putting extraordinary pressure on today’s networks. At the same time, they are creating immense opportunities. As the power and depth of a network’s potential emerges, it can transform an entire organization.
Rapidly changing individual, personal and business requirements are creating chaos in your network. Organizations that properly control this chaos will experience greater IT availability, agility andstronger security.
Are you ready?
Spoiler alert: freeware and do-it-yourself approaches will not suffice
Now is the time to Control Your Network
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Rapidly changing trends are making your network morecritical to your business and even more difficult to manage.
Mobile Device ExplosionThe use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is both a technological and social revolution. For the first time, in 2012, more tablets and smartphones were purchased than personal computers, and thanks to the bring your own device (BYOD) trend, it is now more commonly acceptable for business employees to use their personal mobile devices for work purposes.
These devices consume data-intensive rich media such as video, web, and social media and present a variety of security and performance challenges for network teams. More than half of IT organizations now support BYOD policies in their organizations, and that number will grow quickly.
Cloud and VirtualizationCloud services and virtualization are closely related megatrends. Effective cloud delivery, whether provided by a third party or managed internally, depends on virtualization to yield its full benefits. Together, they offer major improvements in economy and efficiency. They also add complexity to network management.
Because of the potential benefits, virtualized applications account for more than 50 percent of server workloads today. New virtual machines are being created at the rate of one every 6 – 8 seconds, and all of them require IP addresses.
As for cloud, 60 percent of all enterprises have some sort of cloud adoption, 52 percent of organizations we surveyed in 2012 had deployed private clouds, 36 percent of those were running tier-1 applications, and 11 percent more were planning to deploy private cloud in the next 6 months.
Ramp Up Your Network Control to Match Today’s Challenges
ConsolidationConsolidation is a major trend in the modernization and restructuring of enterprise IT infrastructures. It simplifies management and reduces overhead. But it also brings massive changes to IT network topologies. Companies that are reimagining their networks must consider how they’re going to control them in a way that will propel them forward. New architectures are ushering in new networking paradigms like Software Defined Networking (SDN).
Software-De�ned NetworkingSDN is a networking trend still in its infancy—but has the potential to have the most profound and disruptive impact on how we design, build, and run networks in the foreseeable future. SDN’s key idea is to de-couple the network control plane from the data plane and introduce the notion of network programmability and virtualization—with the goal of dramatically driving up agility and flexibility and driving down costs associated with proprietary networking gear.
IPv6Version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) has been a nice-to-have for more than a decade. As the supply of IPv4 addresses rapidly depletes, transition to IPv6 is now all but essential. New technologies are fueling a dramatic increase in network IP endpoints. Analysts estimate between 30 – 50 percent compound annual growth rate in the machine-to-machine network, which will have a massive impact on IP address demand, connecting everything in a diverse range of devices like HVAC systems, highway sensors, or patient-monitoring equipment.
Unlike IPv4, traditional manual IP address management won’t besufficient for IPv6, which is made up of 32 hex digits and not easily readable by humans. Automation is the only way to ensure error-free IPv6 management.
Today, the network is the business—but most organizations struggle to gain control in today’s highly dynamic technology environment. Too many networks are fragile, composed of single points of failure and highly vulnerability to attacks, and they must be managed manually at the cost of significant human effort. All of these factors conspire to increase cost and risk and reduce business agility.
But what if you could take a network like this, and by introducing a few key technologies make a significant improvement in your ability to manage it? What benefits would you expect?
There are several answers. You could:
• Cut operational expenses• Reduce the risk of cyber threats • Get detailed visibility into what’s happening on your network• Deliver actionable information to IT and business decision makers• Scale your network as your business grows• Establish compliance to your internal standards & external regulations
Is it possible? Yes.
We’re Infoblox, and we have solutions that can deliver big benefits to your business. We supply essential network control functions to businesses ranging from aerospace and defense to retail to finance to telecommunications—solutions that help them compete and excel in a today’s highly connected world.
So we’d like to ask you to take a few minutes to read in more detail about the opportunities new technology trends present, the kind of network control you need to exploit them fully, and the ways in which Infoblox can put network control in your hands.
“Network downtime for us can directly translate to risk of financial loss. Our standard criteria for reliability, security and manageability are very high—Infoblox is the only IP address management (IPAM) solution that has met and exceeded those criteria. It has helped us realize many efficiencies and scale with a keen focus on automating mundane tasks and increasing visibility and control.”
Rapidly Changing Cyber-Threat LandscapeThe volume of major data breaches is on the rise, and every new threat has the potential to compromise millions upon millions of records. Most breaches are driven by new generations of malware that creep onto the network undeterred by traditional firewalls. Left undetected and unchecked, malware can fester for months—until it’s too late to limit its spread.
In the era of zero-day attacks, advanced persistent threats, and new threat vectors, your network needs a security approach that combats malware at its core, finding and disabling it in a robust, timely, and proactive manner—before it wreaks havoc on your network.
Your business is looking at a wave of social and technological forcesthat can propel it forward to success—if your network teamcan harness, control, and direct them.
Mobile Device ExplosionThe use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is both a technological and social revolution. For the first time, in 2012, more tablets and smartphones were purchased than personal computers, and thanks to the bring your own device (BYOD) trend, it is now more commonly acceptable for business employees to use their personal mobile devices for work purposes.
These devices consume data-intensive rich media such as video, web, and social media and present a variety of security and performance challenges for network teams. More than half of IT organizations now support BYOD policies in their organizations, and that number will grow quickly.
Cloud and VirtualizationCloud services and virtualization are closely related megatrends. Effective cloud delivery, whether provided by a third party or managed internally, depends on virtualization to yield its full benefits. Together, they offer major improvements in economy and efficiency. They also add complexity to network management.
Because of the potential benefits, virtualized applications account for more than 50 percent of server workloads today. New virtual machines are being created at the rate of one every 6 – 8 seconds, and all of them require IP addresses.
As for cloud, 60 percent of all enterprises have some sort of cloud adoption, 52 percent of organizations we surveyed in 2012 had deployed private clouds, 36 percent of those were running tier-1 applications, and 11 percent more were planning to deploy private cloud in the next 6 months.
6Trends You Can’t Ignore
ConsolidationConsolidation is a major trend in the modernization and restructuring of enterprise IT infrastructures. It simplifies management and reduces overhead. But it also brings massive changes to IT network topologies. Companies that are reimagining their networks must consider how they’re going to control them in a way that will propel them forward. New architectures are ushering in new networking paradigms like Software Defined Networking (SDN).
Software-De�ned NetworkingSDN is a networking trend still in its infancy—but has the potential to have the most profound and disruptive impact on how we design, build, and run networks in the foreseeable future. SDN’s key idea is to de-couple the network control plane from the data plane and introduce the notion of network programmability and virtualization—with the goal of dramatically driving up agility and flexibility and driving down costs associated with proprietary networking gear.
IPv6Version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) has been a nice-to-have for more than a decade. As the supply of IPv4 addresses rapidly depletes, transition to IPv6 is now all but essential. New technologies are fueling a dramatic increase in network IP endpoints. Analysts estimate between 30 – 50 percent compound annual growth rate in the machine-to-machine network, which will have a massive impact on IP address demand, connecting everything in a diverse range of devices like HVAC systems, highway sensors, or patient-monitoring equipment.
Unlike IPv4, traditional manual IP address management won’t besufficient for IPv6, which is made up of 32 hex digits and not easily readable by humans. Automation is the only way to ensure error-free IPv6 management.
Rapidly Changing Cyber-Threat LandscapeThe volume of major data breaches is on the rise, and every new threat has the potential to compromise millions upon millions of records. Most breaches are driven by new generations of malware that creep onto the network undeterred by traditional firewalls. Left undetected and unchecked, malware can fester for months—until it’s too late to limit its spread.
In the era of zero-day attacks, advanced persistent threats, and new threat vectors, your network needs a security approach that combats malware at its core, finding and disabling it in a robust, timely, and proactive manner—before it wreaks havoc on your network.
“Our partnership withInfoblox has been excellent. The support, both sales and technical, has been on the ball. And our solutionkeeps getting better.”
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Mobile Device ExplosionThe use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is both a technological and social revolution. For the first time, in 2012, more tablets and smartphones were purchased than personal computers, and thanks to the bring your own device (BYOD) trend, it is now more commonly acceptable for business employees to use their personal mobile devices for work purposes.
These devices consume data-intensive rich media such as video, web, and social media and present a variety of security and performance challenges for network teams. More than half of IT organizations now support BYOD policies in their organizations, and that number will grow quickly.
Cloud and VirtualizationCloud services and virtualization are closely related megatrends. Effective cloud delivery, whether provided by a third party or managed internally, depends on virtualization to yield its full benefits. Together, they offer major improvements in economy and efficiency. They also add complexity to network management.
Because of the potential benefits, virtualized applications account for more than 50 percent of server workloads today. New virtual machines are being created at the rate of one every 6 – 8 seconds, and all of them require IP addresses.
As for cloud, 60 percent of all enterprises have some sort of cloud adoption, 52 percent of organizations we surveyed in 2012 had deployed private clouds, 36 percent of those were running tier-1 applications, and 11 percent more were planning to deploy private cloud in the next 6 months.
ConsolidationConsolidation is a major trend in the modernization and restructuring of enterprise IT infrastructures. It simplifies management and reduces overhead. But it also brings massive changes to IT network topologies. Companies that are reimagining their networks must consider how they’re going to control them in a way that will propel them forward. New architectures are ushering in new networking paradigms like Software Defined Networking (SDN).
Software-De�ned NetworkingSDN is a networking trend still in its infancy—but has the potential to have the most profound and disruptive impact on how we design, build, and run networks in the foreseeable future. SDN’s key idea is to de-couple the network control plane from the data plane and introduce the notion of network programmability and virtualization—with the goal of dramatically driving up agility and flexibility and driving down costs associated with proprietary networking gear.
IPv6Version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) has been a nice-to-have for more than a decade. As the supply of IPv4 addresses rapidly depletes, transition to IPv6 is now all but essential. New technologies are fueling a dramatic increase in network IP endpoints. Analysts estimate between 30 – 50 percent compound annual growth rate in the machine-to-machine network, which will have a massive impact on IP address demand, connecting everything in a diverse range of devices like HVAC systems, highway sensors, or patient-monitoring equipment.
Unlike IPv4, traditional manual IP address management won’t besufficient for IPv6, which is made up of 32 hex digits and not easily readable by humans. Automation is the only way to ensure error-free IPv6 management.
Rapidly Changing Cyber-Threat LandscapeThe volume of major data breaches is on the rise, and every new threat has the potential to compromise millions upon millions of records. Most breaches are driven by new generations of malware that creep onto the network undeterred by traditional firewalls. Left undetected and unchecked, malware can fester for months—until it’s too late to limit its spread.
In the era of zero-day attacks, advanced persistent threats, and new threat vectors, your network needs a security approach that combats malware at its core, finding and disabling it in a robust, timely, and proactive manner—before it wreaks havoc on your network.
7 of the Top10 Aerospace
and DefenseCompanies
7of the Top10 Telecommunications
Providers
8of the Top10 Retailers
8of the Top10 Major Banks
9of the Top10 Autoand Truck
Manufacturers
Typical IPv6 address: 2001:0db8:85a3:0042:0000:8a2e:0370:7334
Complex IPv6 addresses are difficult to proofread, and tryingto manage them manually is a prescription for error.
Industry Leaders Trust Infoblox
Mobile Device ExplosionThe use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is both a technological and social revolution. For the first time, in 2012, more tablets and smartphones were purchased than personal computers, and thanks to the bring your own device (BYOD) trend, it is now more commonly acceptable for business employees to use their personal mobile devices for work purposes.
These devices consume data-intensive rich media such as video, web, and social media and present a variety of security and performance challenges for network teams. More than half of IT organizations now support BYOD policies in their organizations, and that number will grow quickly.
Cloud and VirtualizationCloud services and virtualization are closely related megatrends. Effective cloud delivery, whether provided by a third party or managed internally, depends on virtualization to yield its full benefits. Together, they offer major improvements in economy and efficiency. They also add complexity to network management.
Because of the potential benefits, virtualized applications account for more than 50 percent of server workloads today. New virtual machines are being created at the rate of one every 6 – 8 seconds, and all of them require IP addresses.
As for cloud, 60 percent of all enterprises have some sort of cloud adoption, 52 percent of organizations we surveyed in 2012 had deployed private clouds, 36 percent of those were running tier-1 applications, and 11 percent more were planning to deploy private cloud in the next 6 months.
ConsolidationConsolidation is a major trend in the modernization and restructuring of enterprise IT infrastructures. It simplifies management and reduces overhead. But it also brings massive changes to IT network topologies. Companies that are reimagining their networks must consider how they’re going to control them in a way that will propel them forward. New architectures are ushering in new networking paradigms like Software Defined Networking (SDN).
Software-De�ned NetworkingSDN is a networking trend still in its infancy—but has the potential to have the most profound and disruptive impact on how we design, build, and run networks in the foreseeable future. SDN’s key idea is to de-couple the network control plane from the data plane and introduce the notion of network programmability and virtualization—with the goal of dramatically driving up agility and flexibility and driving down costs associated with proprietary networking gear.
IPv6Version 6 of the Internet Protocol (IPv6) has been a nice-to-have for more than a decade. As the supply of IPv4 addresses rapidly depletes, transition to IPv6 is now all but essential. New technologies are fueling a dramatic increase in network IP endpoints. Analysts estimate between 30 – 50 percent compound annual growth rate in the machine-to-machine network, which will have a massive impact on IP address demand, connecting everything in a diverse range of devices like HVAC systems, highway sensors, or patient-monitoring equipment.
Unlike IPv4, traditional manual IP address management won’t besufficient for IPv6, which is made up of 32 hex digits and not easily readable by humans. Automation is the only way to ensure error-free IPv6 management.
Rapidly Changing Cyber-Threat LandscapeThe volume of major data breaches is on the rise, and every new threat has the potential to compromise millions upon millions of records. Most breaches are driven by new generations of malware that creep onto the network undeterred by traditional firewalls. Left undetected and unchecked, malware can fester for months—until it’s too late to limit its spread.
In the era of zero-day attacks, advanced persistent threats, and new threat vectors, your network needs a security approach that combats malware at its core, finding and disabling it in a robust, timely, and proactive manner—before it wreaks havoc on your network.
Solutions Aligned to Your Priorities:The Mapping of Infoblox Offerings
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Central ControlInfoblox delivers key control technologies such as DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) on our patented Grid to give you true centralized management of critical network services, enabling your network team to support IPv4 and IPv6 networks across distributed geographical boundaries. You no longer have to deal with a mixed bag of technology silos; with Infoblox you can deliver robust, secure, highly available critical network services on a single platform.
AutomationFor your Layer 2 and 3 network infrastructure you can reduce costs, increase efficiency, and prevent human error through network automation. Infoblox technologies deliver automated discovery and visualization, change and configuration management, and compliance validation—enabling you to run a highly dynamic network infrastructure at a fraction of the cost and effort. Infoblox Network Automation ends the days of using command-line interfaces and custom scripts to manage your network manually.
Security In today’s climates of new threats, you need an in-depth defensive strategy to truly protect your assets and reduce risk. Infoblox enhances our DNS server with a high-quality live malware data feed, enabling your Infoblox DNS to become an active security asset in your network and blocking DNS queries from resolving when
If all these trends sound impactful, it’s because they are. But we can simplify your response to them by boiling them down to four capabilities that empower your network to address them all:
4Key Capabilities forControlling Your Network
the destination is a known to be malicious. With this DNS firewalling capability, Infoblox can help you prevent malware infection and execution and enable you to tune your response, pinpoint infected devices, and take prompt action.
From a security automation perspective, Infoblox delivers automated firewall device rules and policy control technology, which dramatically reduces the time and effort it takes to change multi-vendor firewall (ACL) devices. No longer having to spend precious time manually changing firewall rules, network security teams are freed up to address more strategic networking requirements.
Visibility to Support SoundDecision MakingInfoblox takes all of the rich discovery information and all network interactions and stores them in one authoritative database, empowering your decision-makers to have actionable data at their fingertips and use network data for strategic advantage. Advanced reporting capabilities offer multitudes of historic and trend views, and all data captured and reports are generated with zero impact to your production network services.
Working as an integrated, centrally managed whole, Infoblox solutions bring these four capabilities to bear on your challenges and give you control from your network infrastructure to your application end points.
Infoblox is the leader in automated network control. For nearly 15 years, we have helpedcustomers control their networks. More than 6,900 customers today depend on Infoblox proven solutions to conduct business in a complex, hyper-competitive age.
Partner You Can Count On1Deep Skills and ExperienceWith 20 patents to our name and another 27 pending, and with operations in 25 countries, Infoblox is recognized worldwide as a leader in network control and automation.
Global Reach and DiversityToday, 30 percent of Fortune 500 companies count on Infoblox as a trusted resource to make sure that their networks are available, secure and automated, and therefore their enterprises, are ready to compete and excel in the highly connected world.
From Best Buy to IBM to Wells Fargo, Infoblox serves the diverse needs of a customer base that includes the world’s largest banks, manufacturer, retailers, and oil and gas industry leaders.
A Tight Focus on Business ResultsSince 1999, Infoblox has focused relentlessly on the network’s essential importance to business health. Your network is your most important operational asset and business enabler, and right now, whether you’re ready or not, it is about to undergo a transformation unprecedented in the history of IT.
Let Us Help You Be Ready
If you're ready to build the right network foundation for your business now and in the future, we can help. Contact us to discuss how Infoblox can help you control your network.
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