Networks at today's educational institutions are highly complex, with more technologies and policies than at most enterprises. IT teams support diverse set of users — including transient users like new and graduating students and faculty supporting off-campus research — and systems. Additionally, as universities and institutions expand their mission, they face compliance requirements more stringent and complex than in most environments, such as:
Despite these challenges, many networks are managed by a small staff that is cross-trained to manage multiple IT disciplines, many using manual processes. This labor-intensive, multi-functional approach leads to overall lower service quality: each staff member cannot be an expert in every discipline, and all staff members risk making errors when forced to work as fast as possible.
Even the most leading-edge institutions overlook the importance of network infrastructure services. Without network automation and control, they face:
Infoblox helps our customers work smarter, not harder by automating many of the normal daily grind tasks that take staff off other critical functions. We help deliver agile, resilient and predictable network services for even the complex network infrastructure requirements of educational institutions. Infoblox 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.
The blacklisting functionality in our DNS solution helps educational institutions and libraries receiving E-rate funding to meet the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) requirement by blocking “harmful online content.” This value-added service can significantly reduce security costs associated with this compliance requirement.
Unlike simple in-line filtering solutions that charge by the seat and screen out only prohibited URL attempts, Infoblox provides additional compliance assurance by blocking access at the DNS request, thus preventing access to banned content at both the URL and the IP address levels. Blacklisting functionality is included on all our NIOS solutions at no additional cost.
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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