Complexity bedevils security. Imagine the security challenge of a global conglomerate that is a leader in a number of vital industries. Now imagine that it\u2019s moving 80 percent of its computing resources into the cloud. Think that\u2019s tough? Yes, but now envision it on the verge of expanding into the unexplored territory of the Internet of Things (IoT). That\u2019s complexity. That\u2019s a challenge.<\/p>\n
For example, one of our customers who will go unnamed here says that a conglomerate this big, this broad, and this innovative can\u2019t afford to fail. Its massive IP address infrastructure spans both in-house and outsourced networks, and soon it will have IPv4 and IPv6 running together. It will need core network services that can respond to both. It will need security so it does not allow threats a possible entry point into the core network. A single slip and the entire business case for IoT goes upside down.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why, for the last seven years, this conglomerate has used the Infoblox DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) solution that controls and protects the company\u2019s vast web of networks, along with the Infoblox Threat Adapt\u2122 technology to automatically update its defense against new and evolving threats, along with Infoblox Reporting and Infoblox NetMRI to monitor and manage network assets.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s why the conglomerate is confident in its ability to tackle IoT. \u201cIoT is going to be the future,\u201d says one of its DNS architects. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be in everything you do. We already collect data on engines, turbines in power plants, healthcare machines. All that data is being collected, and we need DNS to make sure it\u2019s getting to the right places. We need secure DNS to make sure it isn\u2019t being hacked.\u201d<\/p>\n
With Infoblox, adding new intelligent devices isn\u2019t a headache. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t function without our Infoblox Grid\u2122,\u201d says the DNS architect. \u201cThe ability to upgrade hundreds of boxes within an hour\u2014and not have to worry about whether they will work when they come back up\u2014is critical to us. The Infoblox Grid is so well designed, we don\u2019t even have worry about what order to go in. Services are not affected. We\u2019ve had the Grid for four years, and it has not gone down once.\u201d<\/p>\n
He sums it all up this way: \u201cDNS is the air our network breathes, and when it goes away, the network can die in a heartbeat\u2014even if the servers, switches, routers, and circuits are all working. Infoblox keeps us breathing.\u201d That is so profound and so true. Thank you for the opportunity!<\/p>\n