Infoblox helps healthcare customers automate and control network services and deliver business services by ensuring an agile, resilient and predictable network infrastructure. Instead of relying on local experts and manual processes, the centralized control improves staff efficiency and reduces the risk of business-impact degradations or outages.
With high-availability, resilient appliances, Infoblox helps healthcare institutions meet network service requirements for their ever-changing needs. The single, integrated interface and hardened appliances with patented high-availability Grid™ technology reduce the risk for outages normally associated with Microsoft or Unix server platforms. The tracking and auditing for DNS, DHCP, IP address and network changes meet compliance requirements and help identify potential issues faster and easier than the traditional reactive troubleshooting approach.
Key benefits
- Delivers high-availability and secure infrastructure with easy to deploy, high-availability appliances
- Ensures continuous uptime with patented Grid™ technology and centralized management
- Reduces cost and increases visibility with built-in, automated IP address management
- Eliminates unnecessary risk of human error or misconfiguration across multi-vendor environments
- Mitigates risks with proactive monitoring and tracking for malicious attacks or unplanned events
- Scales to meet the most complex, distributed environments within the healthcare sector
- Enables staff to focus on more business-impacting initiatives instead of the typical reactive, manual approach
- Shows the impact of changes to the health and stability of the network
Challenges
Healthy Networks Promote Healthy Outcomes
Network infrastructure at health care organizations can be as influential on patient outcomes as the skill and talent of the medical staff. When a healthcare institution suffers poor IT performance, the negative consequences can have not only financial ramifications, but can also exert deleterious effects on human lives. The growth of a healthcare organization multiplies the impact on its network infrastructure. Along with mission-critical applications and strict compliance regulations—such as those stipulated by HIPAA and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act—requirements for multiple clinics, online services, security, privacy concerns weigh heavily on the network infrastructure and the IT professionals who manage it.
For the most mission-critical networks, the danger increases even more when IT departments deploy Microsoft or Unix servers for DNS and DHCP without any failover or redundancy capabilities, manually manage IP addresses, and have little knowledge about the changes taking place in the network infrastructure. Infoblox solutions address these challenges for you head-on by eliminating manual tasks and automating the management of change and configuration issues that dominate healthcare, including patient flow, pharmaceutical variations, outreach in research studies, the proliferation of handheld devices and sophisticated diagnostic and monitoring equipment.
Along with more than 5,000 organizations, many of the world’s best healthcare enterprises use Infoblox solutions to leverage built-in expertise and automation for IP address management, as well as automation and control to handle change and configurations issues which typically is the primary cause of network problems.
Healthcare IT Management Challenges
IT organizations within healthcare are often the most overburdened group across all sectors. Not only must the network services and infrastructure handle business and customer requirements, but also the sector has some of the most stringent security and privacy requirements. As virtually every record and transaction is available online or wirelessly, the impact on the network team is enormous. In addition, healthcare practitioners are on the leading edge with new IP-enabled devices for performing services on-demand, regardless of location.
Often institutions make a common mistake of manually dealing with network services or following the status quo, which leads to challenges including:
- Limited and unreliable disaster recovery options, which greatly impact availability for areas such as DNS and DHCP
- Exposure to standardization and compliance risks and fines with mandates including HIPAA
- Extensive local expertise and knowledge requirements to maintain, upgrade and patch unique environments
- Short change windows to support multiple updates across different platforms
- High vulnerability to both internal and external attacks and threats with multiple access points
- Disparate, inconsistent network services with no centralized visibility and management
- Limited tracking and audit logs to investigate impacting issues or network breeches
- Manual management of IP addresses and network changes
Success Stories
A few of our healthcare customers
The Infoblox solutions for DNS, DHCP, IP address management and network configuration and change management have been deployed by over 4,000 customers worldwide. Many of the leading healthcare providers have taken advantage of network infrastructure control and automation powered by Infoblox. Here is a small sample of our healthcare customers.
| Amgen |
BJC Healthcare |
Blue Cross |
| CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield |
Caremark (CVS) |
Denver Health |
| Glaxo Smith Klein |
Health First |
Johnson & Johnson |
| Kaiser Permanente |
McKesson |
MDS Pharma Services |
| Northwest Community Hospital |
Peninsula Heart Center |
Pfizer |
| Quest Diagnostics |
Stryker |
Wyeth |
See how your peers and leading organizations leverage Infoblox
Don’t take our word for the power of Infoblox solutions; view a few of the stories of successful implementations of Infoblox solutions across the world. Check out how a peer organization ensured a highly-available network service solution or learn how other leading organizations have better automation and control across the infrastructure. While the industries and comments may be different, one thing remains constant—Infoblox has changed the way these organizations manage their network today, and they never want to go back to doing things the way they did before they discovered the power of Infoblox.
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Demos & Resources
See the power of network automation and control in action
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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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