STERLING, VA and SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - December 8, 2009) - Neustar, Inc. (
NYSE:
NSR)
and Infoblox, Inc., two industry leaders in IP (Internet Protocol)
networking solutions, announced today the formation of a strategic
relationship designed to help business, government, and service provider
organizations address the challenge of delivering and managing the core
services underlying IP network infrastructures. Under the terms of the
agreement, Neustar and Infoblox will immediately begin resale of each
other's services and products. The companies will also plan additional
value-added offerings made possible via the unique relationship.
Infoblox will now offer Neustar's UltraDNS® family of services, including
managed DNS and traffic management; in turn, Neustar will offer Infoblox's
core network services appliances. Each company will sell to their
respective customer and prospect bases worldwide via extensive direct sales
forces and reseller networks. As a result, customers will now be able to
deploy Neustar's managed DNS services in combination with Infoblox's
appliance-based DNS, DHCP and IPAM systems in order to achieve optimal
performance, reliability, security and operating costs. Neustar and
Infoblox will support each other through customer service, solutions
engineering, sales and marketing, and contract administration.
"Neustar is the industry leader in managed
DNS
services, and we are thrilled to work with them to complement our
appliance-based solutions with their cloud-based DNS service offerings,"
said Richard Kagan, vice president of marketing at Infoblox. "IP
networking has become mission-critical for businesses, while the
proliferation of IP devices and the emergence of cloud computing are making
these network environments increasingly difficult to operate and manage.
Combining Infoblox's internal DNS, DHCP and IPAM appliances with Neustar's
managed DNS and traffic management offerings positions both companies to
expand their leadership positions in this substantial and growing market."
Over 3,000 global businesses and government organizations trust Neustar to
deliver reliable, secure, and cost-effective DNS solutions. Neustar's
global UltraDNS directory platform has been built out over 10 years, and
currently spans five continents with nodes at private points of presence
(PoPs) and leading Internet Service Providers (ISPs), making the UltraDNS
infrastructure one of the largest and most widely distributed DNS of its
kind in the world.
"Our partnership with Infoblox is strategic, and will bring both immediate
and long-term benefits to the marketplace," said Scott A. Walker, vice
president, Global Partner Programs at Neustar. "Our combined customer base
numbers over 6,000 enterprises, including over half of the Fortune 500, and
our market opportunity is global. With this agreement, customers have
immediate access to an expanded hardware and services solution set for core
IP network services."
The market for robust, reliable and manageable core IP network and DNS
services is growing due to a number of factors:
-- The rise of Internet commerce and collaboration demands nonstop
availability of an organization's web sites and application services.
-- As more and more devices -- from laptops, phones and cameras to door
locks and factory control systems -- become connected to networks, IT
organizations are finding it necessary to invest in automation to maintain
network uptime and security in the face of limited personnel budgets.
-- The broad adoption of virtualization and the promise of cloud
computing are increasing the velocity of change and placing increasing
stress on the outdated manual processes and tools used by most enterprises
to manage their networks.
"The explosive growth of applications, virtual machines, mobile devices and
network endpoints in general has made robust DNS, DHCP and IP Address
Management (DDI) both a major challenge and a critical requirement for most
companies," commented Andreas Antonopoulos, senior vice president and
founding partner with Nemertes Research. "Spreadsheets, static tables,
custom scripts and non-specialist service providers are not suitable for
core network infrastructure services, degrading the delivery of
applications. Companies should carefully examine the platforms, providers
and services they use to build global DDI infrastructures and elevate the
importance of those services in their IT planning and operations."
About Neustar, Inc. and Neustar's UltraDNS Service
Neustar, Inc. (
NYSE:
NSR) solves complex communications challenges by
providing innovative solutions and directory services that enable trusted
communication across networks, applications and enterprises around the
world. Leveraging a unique platform and proprietary, patented technologies,
Neustar provides its UltraDNS managed DNS services to organizations that
rely on the Internet for their critical business processes, applications
and services. UltraDNS Services are used by more than 3,000 enterprises and
TLD infrastructure customers worldwide, and power the resolution of nearly
20 million global Internet domains. Visit
www.neustar.biz and
www.ultradns.biz for more information.
About Infoblox
Infoblox delivers highly reliable and manageable platforms for core network
services like domain name resolution (DNS),
IP address
assignment (DHCP),
IP address management (IPAM) and more. Infoblox
solutions -- essential for the move from static networks to dynamic
infrastructure and applications -- are used by over 3,200 organizations
worldwide, including over 130 of the Fortune 500. The company is
headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., and operates in more than 30
countries. For more information, visit
http://www.infoblox.com/products/.
Contact Information: Media Relations Contacts:
Allen Goldberg
Neustar
(571) 434-5520
Jennifer Jasper
Infoblox
(408) 625-4309