Florida’s Capital County Picks Infoblox for Network Identity Appliances

HostReview.com
Wednesday, March 30, 2005; 02:22 PM

Infoblox Inc. (www.infoblox.com), a developer of network identity infrastructure (NII) systems, today announced that Florida local government body, Leon County, with its population of 245,000, has selected and deployed Infoblox network identity appliances to improve reliability, security, manageability and overall availability of its network.

To serve its county-wide network of 70 servers and 1,750 users, Leon County initially delivered domain name services (DNS) via Sun servers using an old version of the Solaris operating system and manually manipulated the files to manage the system, which limited scalability, consumed resources and produced substantial reliability issues.

Michelle French, IT coordinator - Systems of Leon County, said: "The reliability improvements alone justified the solution change. Before we installed the Infoblox solution, users often complained of DNS-related issues as much as 2-3 times a day."

Leon County IT Systems staff also like that the devices are so easy to install; without training, Leon County had the devices up and resolving domain name requests in less than an hour. Leon County also liked that the devices are locked down without extraneous open ports, minimizing security risks.