Infoblox ensures an agile, resilient and predictable network infrastructure for our retail customers. We help users automate and control core network services and deliver business solutions. Instead of relying on autonomous local experts, the centralized control and console greatly improve staff efficiency and reduce the risk of business-impact degradations or outages.
With high-availability, resilient appliances, Infoblox helps retail organization meet network requirements for their ever-changing needs. The single, integrated interface and hardened appliances reduce the risk for malicious attacks and vulnerabilities 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 retail sector
- Enables staff to focus on more business-impacting initiatives instead of the typical reactive, manual approach
- Understand the impact of changes to the health and stability of the network
Challenges
Robust Networks Foster Robust Sales
Network infrastructure management in the retail sector is daunting. If the network is not available 24x7, retailers face huge financial and customer service risks. Limited local IT expertise must manage an extremely diverse, distributed architecture, often using risky manual processes. Add to those challenges a set of constantly changing environments and compliance mandates (PCI, ITIL) plus an ever-growing variety of IP-enabled devices (point of sale, scanners, RFID, etc.), and the best IT professional is put to the test.
Despite increasingly complex infrastructure requirements, staffing at many retail IT organizations remains limited. Understaffing frequently leads to a neglect of key network services—including domain name resolution, IP address assignment and management, and network change and configuration management—and subjects the network to human error vulnerability that could stop sales transactions cold. Infoblox can prevent this type of neglect from compromising the availability and security of your retail organization’s entire network by increasing staff efficiency through the elimination of manual tasks and the automated control of all these key network services.
Along with more than 5,000 organizations, many of the world’s retailers, including 3 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.
Retail IT Management Challenges
With the increasing demands of customers for fast, convenient and precise transactions in the retail space, any slowdown or interruption of service could be catastrophic when customers can easily compare and go with a competitor. With the distributed nature of the network infrastructure, retail organizations often have the most diverse set of supported devices with multiple vendors, operating systems, and standards.
Often stores fall into the trap of assuming local control is paramount, but this leads to concerns and challenges including:
- Limited and unreliable disaster recovery options which greatly impact local survivability at distributed sites (stores, warehouse, distribution, online, partners)
- Exposure to standardization and compliance risks and fines with mandates including PCI and ITIL
- 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 infrastructure services with no centralized visibility and management
- Limited tracking and audit logs to investigate impacting issues or network breeches
Success Stories
A few of our retail 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 retail organizations have taken advantage of network infrastructure control and automation powered by Infoblox. Here is a small sample of our retail customers.
| Abercrombie & Fitch |
Avon |
Barnes & Noble |
| FedEx |
Gap |
GEICO |
| Hertz |
L.L. Bean |
Lenscrafters |
| McDonald’s |
MGI Metro |
Payless Shoe Source |
| Petco |
Pitney Bowes |
Starbucks |
| Tiffany & Co. |
United Airlines |
W.W. Grainger |
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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