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 mitigates the risk of potential failure points including an out-of-service DNS/DHCP server or an unplanned router change negatively impacting overall performance.
With high-availability, resilient appliances, Infoblox helps financial institutions meet network service requirements for their ever changing needs. The single, integrated interface and hardened appliances with patented high-available Grid™ technology 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
Challenges
Downtime Devours Everyone’s Money
Financial and banking institutions measure network downtime or degradation in terms of money. Delayed transactions can result in lost customers, missed opportunities and potential fines. Because financial networks cannot be touched during business hours and typically have locations across broad geographies, they require real-time service levels and can be difficult to manage. Still, whether it's a small local bank or a multi-national securities exchange, security and 24x7 performance are not options—they're necessities.
With optimal solutions for managing DNS and DHCP, Infoblox can help IT staffs at financial institutions meet the need for high availability networks, security and compliance. The preponderance of Microsoft or Unix servers, with their typically higher failure rates and redundancy limitations, is an additional challenge Infoblox addresses for financial institutions. Since change is the primary cause of performance related issues, managing your network change and configuration are joint keys to your institution’s success. Around the globe, Infoblox solutions are resolving these all too familiar problems for countless financial institutions.
Along with more than 5,000 organizations, many of the world’s largest financial institutions, including the world’s top 12 largest banks, use Infoblox solutions to ensure maximum network uptime, meet internal compliance, manage changes, and keep the business running, while simultaneously making constant improvements to their dynamic infrastructure.
Financial institutions IT management challenges
When it comes to monetary risk from poor network and application performance, financial institutions have the highest exposure of any industry. IT staffs have the difficult challenge of managing critical applications with high demands across a network infrastructure that is distributed with multiple offices/branches connected to primary data centers or clearinghouses for transactions.
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 automation and control, new challenges arise:
- Unnecessary risk of downtime with 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
- Higher exposure of unintended consequences for both planned and unplanned changes
- New risk and high vulnerability to both internal and external attacks and threats with 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
Success Stories
A few of our financial customers
The Infoblox solutions for DNS, DHCP, IP address management and network configuration and change management have been deployed by over 4,000 customers worldwide. Many of the leading financial institutions have taken advantage of network infrastructure control and automation powered by Infoblox. Here is a small sample of our financial customers.
| AG Edwards |
Allmerica Financial |
American Express |
| Bank of Tokyo |
Barclays |
Citizens Bank |
| Fannie Mae |
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston |
ING |
| Liberty Mutual |
Northwest Mutual |
State Street |
| SWIFT |
TIAA CREF |
Visa |
| UBS |
US Bank |
Wells Fargo |
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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Additional resources
- Overviews: Summaries of Infoblox and our solutions
- Data Sheets: In-depth descriptions of the Infoblox solutions, product lines, services and maintenance
- Case Studies: Real-world success stories from Infoblox customers
- White Papers: Business-level overviews and best practices in network services and network infrastructure management
- Solution/Tech Notes: Detailed technical discussions and instructions on network integration and specific applications
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