Infoblox NIOS™ Software: Powering Nonstop Network Services

Infoblox solves a growing, critical problem in enterprise networking: keeping core network services infrastructure—the protocols and services that store and deliver information about users, devices, and policies for all IP applications—running nonstop. Core network services (like DNS, DHCP, RADIUS, etc.) are the foundation that supports new security initiatives, pervasive mobile networking, convergence applications like VoIP, and growing compliance reporting requirements.Infoblox NIOS™ softwareis at the heart of Infoblox solutions. Deployed on Infoblox’s high-performance network services appliances, this software overcomes the service delivery problems and management deficiencies of current solutions. Today’s core network services services tend to reside on vulnerable, general-purpose operating systems and servers managed by disparate entities throughout an organization, making services difficult to update, manage, and secure both at the local level and system-wide. This situation is now reaching a crisis point, due in part to the following trends:

• An explosion in the number and diversity of network users, devices, and policies
• An increasing number of network attacks specifically targeting the core network services infrastructure, such as DNS cache poisoning
• The deployment of real-time IP applications, such as voice over IP (VoIP), which cannot tolerate delays in network services data updates
• New regulations, such as Sarbanes-Oxley, which require more integrated ccore network services to enable the creation of audit trails and more sophisticated reporting
• Industry endpoint security initiatives, such as Cisco Network Admission Control (NAC) and Microsoft Network Access Protection (NAP), which require core network services integration to determine and enforce the access rights of remote workers

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