Infoblox has announced that it will showcase its latest innovations in DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI), secure DNS and network automation technologies at the IDC CIO Summit taking place between February 25-26, 2015 at the Atlantis Hotel, Dubai.
The company aims to spread awareness about its position as being the only vendor worldwide to provide holistic end-to-end DNS security and defence against the widest range of DNS-based attacks such as volumetric, exploits, and DNS hijacking attacks. Infoblox will also demonstrate its cloud solutions that provide automated core network services for virtual machines in the data centre to improve IT agility, enable faster time to service, and reduce operating costs.
Speaking about the company’s participation at the event, Cherif Sleiman, General Manager, Middle East at Infoblox says, “The IDC CIO Summit is a great platform for our company to expose our brand and showcase our products and capabilities to top level IT decision makers. During 2015, regional organisations will focus on security as the number one area of IT spend given the fact that not only is the threat landscape constantly changing, but also the political turmoil in certain countries is adding another dimension of cyber warfare. Domain Name System (DNS) Security is an area that we believe regional organisations will start paying greater attention to as they begin to understand the damaging consequences of inadequate security measures.”
“DNS is a foundational Internet technology used in every non-trivial IP-based transaction. If it’s not working properly, Internet transactions can grind to a halt leading to disastrous results including lost revenue due to downtime, diminished customer satisfaction and lost productivity.”
Another focus for Infoblox at the event will be on the company’s cloud solution, as private clouds are rapidly gaining traction in the region. Private clouds need automated and scalable core network services to rapidly add and remove applications and services, easily shift workloads across sites, run workloads in multi-tenant architectures and make the underlying networks resilient to failures. Infoblox Cloud Network Automation delivers control that scales from pilot to production to multi-platform, so that private cloud deployments—regardless of size and scope—aren’t hobbled by manual processes for managing core network services. Infoblox solutions for managing DDI integrate with private cloud platforms from seven enterprise providers – VMware, Microsoft, HP, Cisco, BMC, CA and ElasticBox – as well as OpenStack, giving customers more choices than any other supplier of enterprise-grade DDI.
“Security complexity and awareness are clear challenges for organisations in the region. Companies have so many vulnerability points that they need to secure that at times protecting the IP is rarely addressed. Protecting the DNS can help avoid users from being directed to malicious sites as well as ensuring network stability,” says Megha Kumar, Research Manager – Software, IDC MEA.
*Infoblox will be exhibiting at the IDC CIO Summit from booth number 41.
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