Finance

Downtime Devours Everyone's Money

When financial and banking institutions experience network downtime or degradation they risk lost customers, missed opportunities and potential fines. In fact, when it comes to monetary risk from poor network and application performance, financial institutions have the highest exposure of any industry.

IT staffs must manage critical applications with high demands across a distributed network infrastructure, with multiple offices connected to primary data centers or clearinghouses for transactions. Still, whether it's a small local bank or a multi-national securities exchange, security and 24x7 performance are not options—they're necessities.

Many financial institutions hedge their IT bets and overprovision network resources, including bandwidth and extensive recovery processes. However, they still overlook the importance of better automation and control of the infrastructure.

Without network automation and control, financial firms face:

  • Unnecessary risk of downtime from individual servers with limited and unreliable disaster recovery options
  • Higher audit costs and exposure to penalties, sanctions or fines for compliance violations including PCI
  • Burdensome requirements for local expertise and knowledge to maintain disparate assets and tools
  • Risk of unintended consequences for both planned and unplanned changes
  • Vulnerability to both internal and external attacks at multiple access points
  • Disparate, inconsistent network services with no centralized visibility and management
  • Additional exposure and cost with limited manual tracking and logs for compliance requirements and/or troubleshooting needs

Solutions for Financial Institutions

Infoblox helps ensure agile, resilient and predictable network services for even the complex network infrastructure requirements of financial institutions. 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 financial sector
  • Enables staff to focus on more business-impacting initiatives instead of the typical reactive, manual approach
  • Understands 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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