Infoblox helps ensure agile, resilient and predictable network services for even the complex network infrastructure requirements of manufacturing organizations. Infoblox reduces the risk of performance impacts by finding potential problems lurking within the network infrastructure, automating manual tasks and controlling the network services within a secure, reliable and highly-available solution. Infoblox mitigates the risk of potential failure points, including an out-of-service DNS/DHCP service or an unplanned router change negatively impacting overall performance.
With high-availability, resilient appliances, Infoblox helps manufacturing 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
- 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
Keeping the End-to-End Flow Going
With disparate plants, suppliers, distributors, retail outlets and customers, manufacturing companies require complex and challenging network infrastructure and service to keep their logical flows intact and on schedule. A single problem in the manufacturing process can halt the entire production line or cause lengthy delays in logistics and transportation. IT staff are responsible for maintaining control across a network that services many different users and locations, and they play a critical role in the company’s success.
With increased dependence on software applications and more IP-enabled devices used across the range of companies in the manufacturing chain, the amount of time and effort required to manage IP addresses is growing exponentially. Infoblox can help you manage the dramatic increase in network change and configuration tasks at your manufacturing company by replacing manual intervention with automation. Infoblox solutions also address issues that often arise at manufacturing companies when dealing with multi-vendor network environments and lack of expertise with unfamiliar networking equipment.
Along with more than 5,000 organizations, many manufacturers, including 6 of the world’s largest, use Infoblox solutions to ensure maximum network uptime, meet internal compliance, manage changes, and keep the business running, while simultaneously making constant improvements to their dynamic infrastructure.
IT management challenges in manufacturing
Network and application performance issues have a ripple effect with manufacturers. Even if an issue is short in duration, the negative consequences typically continue to flow down the line and increase over time as the impact builds momentum. The IT and network teams must overcome a very distributed infrastructure architecture where local expertise may be non-existent.
In addition, compliance mandates are common within manufacturing, as your organization must follow specific standards based on your partnerships or selling channels. In an interesting paradox, even though the manufacturing process has become more automated over the past decades, many IT staffs still follow legacy approaches and manual processes when dealing with IP address management and network configuration and change management. Challenges include:
- Unnecessary risk of downtime with individual servers with limited and unreliable disaster recovery options
- Higher audit costs and exposure to penalties, sanctions or fines for compliance violations including PCI
- Burdensome requirements for local expertise and knowledge to maintain disparate assets and tools
- Higher exposure of unintended consequences for both planned and unplanned changes
- New risk and high vulnerability to both internal and external attacks and threats with multiple access points
- Disparate, inconsistent network services with no centralized visibility and management
- Additional exposure and cost with limited manual tracking and logs for compliance requirements and/or troubleshooting needs
Success Stories
A few of our manufacturing 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 manufacturing companies have taken advantage of network infrastructure control and automation powered by Infoblox. Here is a small sample of your peer customer using Infoblox.
| 3M |
Banta |
Boeing |
| Bridgestone/Firestone |
Caterpillar |
Danone |
| Datum |
Datum |
Datum |
| Deere |
Emerson |
Ford |
| General Electric |
Linde |
Pioneer |
| Sara Lee Foods |
Toshiba |
Whirlpool |
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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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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