Healthcare

Healthy Networks Promote Healthy Outcomes

Networks at hospitals and health care organizations carry data that support life-saving and life-changing decisions. The ability to deliver data immediately and reliably across multiple devices and applications at the point of care can affect patient outcomes as much the skill and talent of the medical staff.

Healthcare IT organizations must not only support business and customer requirements, but also stringent security, regulatory and privacy requirements. As virtually every record and transaction is available online or wirelessly, the impact on the network team is enormous. Organizations take on tremendous risk when they use manual processes to manage IP addresses and network infrastructure changes. 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.

Without network automation and control, healthcare organizations face:

  • 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

Infoblox Healthcare Solutions

Infoblox helps ensure agile, resilient and predictable network services for even the complex network infrastructure requirements of healthcare organizations. The solutions increase network and application availability and performance by finding potential problems lurking within the network infrastructure, automating the manual tasks and controlling the network services within a secure, reliable and highly available solution.

Infoblox provides a single, integrated interface and hardened appliances with patented high-available Grid™ technology to 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

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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