Business Continuity

Ensure Constant Business and Network Uptime

“Around-the-clock” or “24x7” business continuity is the new norm. Organizations today spend a great deal of time and resources on plans and strategies to ensuring constant network uptime. Because of the increasing number of dynamic components in modern companies, a single unplanned or unexpected event can cripple an entire location. Continuity plans, however, often overlook the core network infrastructure and services because these always seem to work.

DNS, DNSSEC, DHCP and network configurations are now the building blocks and essential glue between the network infrastructure and all IP-based applications. Any disruption in these network services can wipe out the best-laid disaster recovery plans. Continuity plans need to be backed up by redundant technologies and hardened appliances to keep the core network infrastructure and services up and running through any disaster plan.  Infoblox can be your back-up solution.

Infoblox delivers solutions that ensure constant business and network uptime. With redundant Grid™ based technologies and hardened appliances, key network services such as DNS and DHCP are always on. Over 5,000 of the world’s largest organizations with the most complex networks have deployed Infoblox to achieve business continuity and network availability.

Challenges

Disaster recovery and the network infrastructure

The importance of disaster recovery is easy to understand, but the criticality of network services and network infrastructure is misunderstood and under-addressed. Many organizations have insufficient capabilities with resiliency, security and management for aspects like DNS, DHCP, DNSSEC or IP address management. Instead of having reliable solutions, many organizations use general-purpose servers and freeware to patch together a solution.

Adding to the concern, many organizations rely on manual processes, spreadsheets and databases for these critical services. If there is an issue, the traditional approach is slow to react and cannot ensure business continuity. Common concerns include:

  • No resiliency - General-purpose servers can go down and have little capability for resiliency and high availability
  • Complex processes - If network services are pieced together today, the amount of unnecessary steps and processes is multiplied for disaster recovery
  • Limited testing - With the convoluted and difficult process, the ability to periodically test is limited
  • Required expertise - With stand alone, traditional solutions, the amount of local expertise is enormous which adds to cost and risk
  • Change events - A single planned or unplanned change can cause immediate or delayed impacts on disaster recovery implementations and delay continuity by days or weeks
  • Additional investments - To cover for the limitations of traditional approaches, additional resources and investments are needed just to maintain the hope of continuity
  • Limited compliance reporting - The single or periodic snapshot approach is not sufficient for compliance requirements
  • Blurred ownership - The shared accountability and ownership across platforms create barriers which delays recovery

Infoblox Solutions

The power of network automation and control for business continuity

The Infoblox solutions for network services, such as DNS and HDCP, provide unparalleled capability for business continuity and disaster recovery implementations. Instead of cobbling together individual piece parts and leftover hardware, the Infoblox solutions are built and designed to meet the most stringent capability and resiliency requirements by organizations worldwide. So if high-availability and business continuity are important to your organization, Infoblox can help ensure your critical applications and services are always availability.

By leveraging unique database and Grid™ technologies on purpose-built appliance platforms, Infoblox delivers the only network services infrastructure platform designed to achieve continuous business uptime and automated, fast, easy and accurate disaster recovery.

Key Infoblox capabilities

  • Hardened appliances - The purpose-built, hardened appliances are designed for non-stop operation in high-performance networks
  • High-availability failover - With the high-availability capability, the time for a failover switch is less than 5-seconds versus hours without Infoblox
  • Grid™ technology - The patented Grid™ technology links central and remote offices into a single resilient, unified system that assures continuous uptime
  • Distributed architecture -The Infoblox network services distributed architecture is designed to scale and support some of the world’s largest organizations
  • Ease of continuity - If a failure occurs, the Infoblox appliances will configure themselves automatically to continue to provide the services, and synchronize with the network database within minutes without manual intervention
  • Error-free recovery - The unique database approach provides error-free recovery even in large-scale, distributed environments
  • Historical configurations - For network devices, the historical configurations and rollback capabilities can reduce time to resolve change-related issues from hours to minutes
  • Integrated services - DNS, DNSSEC, DHCP, IPAM, TFTP and NTP are managed within a single, hardened appliance

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.

Additional resources

To learn more about how Infoblox can help you control and automate DNS, DHCP, IP address management and network configuration, change and compliance management, visit these additional resources:

  • Overviews: Summaries of Infoblox and our solutions
  • Data Sheets: In-depth descriptions of the Infoblox solutions, product lines, services and maintenance
  • Case Studies: Real-world success stories from Infoblox customers
  • White Papers: Business-level overviews and best practices in network services and network infrastructure management
  • Solution/Tech Notes: Detailed technical discussions and instructions on network integration and specific applications
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