Control

your network.

Control is
Freedom.

Take Control
Radical shifts in technology are putting extraordinary
pressure on todays networks. At the same time, they
are creating immense opportunities. As the power
and depth of a networks 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 and
stronger security.
Are you ready?
Spoiler alert: freeware and do-it-yourself approaches will not sufce

Now is the time to

Control Your Network

Ramp Up Your Network Control to

Match Todays Challenges
Rapidly changing trends are making your network more
critical to your business and even more difficult to manage.

Network downtime for us can

directly translate to risk of
nancial loss. Our standard
criteria for reliability, security
and manageability are very
highInfoblox is the only IP
address management (IPAM)
solution that has met and
exceeded those criteria. It
has helped us realize many
efciencies and scale with a
keen focus on automating
mundane tasks and increasing
visibility and control.

Today, the network is the businessbut most organizations struggle

to gain control in todays 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 signicant 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 signicant improvement in your ability
to manage it? What benets would you expect?
There are several answers. You could:
Cut operational expenses
Reduce the risk of cyber threats
Get detailed visibility into whats 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.
Were Infoblox, and we have solutions that can deliver big benets
to your business. We supply essential network control functions to
businesses ranging from aerospace and defense to retail to nance
to telecommunicationssolutions that help them compete and excel
in a todays highly connected world.
So wed 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.

Trends You Cant Ignore

Your business is looking at a wave of social and technological forces

that can propel it forward to successif your network team
can harness, control, and direct them.

Mobile Device Explosion

The use of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets is both

a technological and social revolution. For the rst 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 Virtualization

Cloud 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 benets. Together,
they offer major improvements in economy and efciency. They also
add complexity to network management.
Because of the potential benets, 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.

Infoblox was selected to

integrate our IPAM with
DNS/DHCP. The experience
with Infoblox has been great!
The integration was seamless
and has never given us a
disaster to recover from.
It just works!

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.

Industry Leaders
Trust Infoblox

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8
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9

of the Top
10 Aerospace
and Defense
Companies

Consolidation

Consolidation is a major trend in the modernization and restructuring

of enterprise IT infrastructures. It simplies management and reduces
overhead. But it also brings massive changes to IT network topologies.
Companies that are reimagining their networks must consider how
theyre going to control them in a way that will propel them forward.
New architectures are ushering in new networking paradigms like
Software Dened Networking (SDN).

Software-Defined Networking

of the Top10
Telecommunications
Providers

of the Top
10 Retailers

of the Top10
Major Banks

of the Top
10 Auto
and Truck
Manufacturers

SDN is a networking trend still in its infancybut has the potential to have
the most profound and disruptive impact on how we design, build, and
run networks in the foreseeable future. SDNs key idea is to de-couple the
network control plane from the data plane and introduce the notion of
network programmability and virtualizationwith the goal of dramatically
driving up agility and exibility and driving down costs associated with
proprietary networking gear.

IPv6

Version 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 wont be
sufcient 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.

Typical IPv6 address: 2001:0db8:85a3:0042:0000:8a2e:0370:7334

Complex IPv6 addresses are difcult to proofread, and trying
to manage them manually is a prescription for error.

Rapidly Changing Cyber-Threat Landscape

The 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 rewalls. Left
undetected and unchecked, malware can fester for monthsuntil its
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, nding and disabling it in a robust, timely, and
proactive mannerbefore it wreaks havoc on your network.

Solutions Aligned to Your Priorities:

The Mapping of Infoblox Offerings

Key Capabilities for

Controlling Your Network

If all these trends sound impactful, its 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:

Central Control

Infoblox 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.

Automation

For your Layer 2 and 3 network infrastructure

you can reduce costs, increase efciency,
and prevent human error through network
automation. Infoblox technologies deliver
automated discovery and visualization,
change and conguration management, and
compliance validationenabling 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 todays 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

the destination is a known to be malicious.

With this DNS rewalling 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 rewall device
rules and policy control technology, which
dramatically reduces the time and effort it
takes to change multi-vendor rewall (ACL)
devices. No longer having to spend precious
time manually changing rewall rules, network
security teams are freed up to address more
strategic networking requirements.

Visibility to Support Sound

Decision Making

Infoblox 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 ngertips 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.

Partner You Can Count On

Infoblox is the leader in automated network control. For nearly 15 years, we have helped
customers control their networks. More than 6,300 customers today depend on Infoblox
proven solutions to conduct business in a complex, hyper-competitive age.

Deep Skills and Experience

With 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 Diversity

Today, 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 worlds largest banks,
manufacturer, retailers, and oil and gas industry leaders.

A Tight Focus on Business Results

Since 1999, Infoblox has focused relentlessly on the networks essential

importance to business health. Your network is your most important
operational asset and business enabler, and right now, whether youre
ready or not, it is about to undergo a transformation unprecedented in
the history of IT.

We love having a system

that tells us what we need
to pay attention to. Infoblox
takes a complex environment
and simplies itallowing
us to sleep at night and
make quick decisions and
adjustments when necessary.
Its not often that we come
across something this great."

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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Over

Service Providers

around the world count on Infoblox as foundational to the successful delivery of their IP-based
services and count us as highly strategic to that purpose. Infoblox helps ISPs, Telcos, Mobile
Network Operators and Cloud providers secure their critical infrastructure, enhance the customer
experience and improve operational efficiency.

Infoblox Strategic Alliance Partners

Contact:
Infoblox - World Headquarters
info@infoblox.com

Infoblox - EMEA
info-emea@infoblox.com

Infoblox - APAC
info-apac@infoblox.com

Infoblox - Latin America

sales-latinamerica@infoblox.com

Infoblox - Middle East

sales-me@infoblox.com

Infoblox - India
sales-india@infoblox.com

Infoblox - Support
support@infoblox.com

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Confidence.

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