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Leading Professional Services Firm in Australia Optimizes Network Operations With Infoblox Appliances
| Source: Infoblox
SANTA CLARA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- February 5, 2007 -- Infoblox Inc., a developer of essential
infrastructure for identity-driven networks (IDNs), today announced that
GHD, an Australia-based international professional services firm ranked
among the world's top 30 engineering and architecture companies, has
selected and deployed Infoblox appliances to reduce the management
complexity of its domain name resolution (DNS) systems.
Established in 1928, GHD, which has more than 4,700 employees, AU $500
million in annual revenue and operations in 12 countries, including New
Zealand, Asia, the Middle East, the United Kingdom and the Americas, serves
the global market sectors of infrastructure, mining, defense, commercial
property and buildings. GHD's network -- used to connect its team of
specialists and GHD's clients -- is central to the company's success.
Delivering nonstop DNS service and real-time, effective administration of
DNS records is essential to keeping the network accessible and running
smoothly 24x7.
Previously, GHD relied on a variety of country-specific service providers
to manage its DNS services, but found this produced unnecessary costs,
contract negotiations, limited IP address usage, and caused DNS
administration delays that impacted effective network operation.
After evaluating several options that the team found too administratively
burdensome and vulnerable to attacks, GHD purchased purpose-built, hardened
Infoblox appliances with the DNSone package and Keystone upgrade for
global, enterprise-wide delivery and management of all external DNS
services. Doing so eliminated more than 10 different ISP contracts and
annual negotiation cycles, gave GHD control of all their domains, and
helped simplify network complexity by aggregating Internet gateways.
Mark Balanay, IT Operations Manager at GHD, commented, "In addition to
eliminating our reliance on various in-country ISPs, Infoblox provides the
ability to centrally manage delivery of DNS services for all our sites;
this allows us to make immediate changes and updates, which previously
could have taken days for an ISP to implement. Further, the hardened
appliance systems help us meet strict security and compliance
requirements."
Currently, GHD's configuration includes one hidden primary Infoblox
appliance and two external secondary Infoblox appliances, respectively in
Charlotte Street and a co-location facility in Brisbane. The Keystone
upgrade links the appliances into an "ID grid" that helps provide real-time
central configuration capabilities, enterprise-wide DNS record updates and
software upgrades.
In the future, GHD plans to consider leveraging the Infoblox appliances for
internal DNS, IP address assignment (DHCP), and authentication (RADIUS)
services in conjunction with Microsoft Active Directory.
For more information about Infoblox products, visit:
http://www.infoblox.com/products/.
About Infoblox
Infoblox develops essential infrastructure used for establishing
identity-driven networks (IDNs). Infoblox network identity appliances
deliver nonstop DNS, DHCP, IPAM, RADIUS and related services with
unparalleled reliability, manageability, scalability and security. Over
1,200 organizations worldwide, including many of the Fortune 500, use
Infoblox solutions for the critical naming, authentication, authorization
and IP management services that make their networks secure, robust,
manageable and compliant. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA
and operates in more than 30 countries. For more information, call
+1.408.625.4200, email info@infoblox.com, or visit www.infoblox.com.