By Raju Shanbhag, TMCnet Contributor
Offering two new management packs for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, Infoblox, a developer of advanced network management software and infrastructure control solutions, joined the Microsoft (News - Alert) System Center Alliance.
Microsoft System Center solutions play a central role in Microsoft's long term vision for helping IT organizations benefit from self-managing, user-centric, dynamic systems.
For customers who use Microsoft System Center Operations Manager, Infoblox (News - Alert) has worked closely with Microsoft to provide tangible visibility and control advantages as the company is a Microsoft Gold Partner with several proven Microsoft integrations available today and more than 200 of the Global 500 as customers.
Infoblox NetMRI is the industry’s only Network Change and Configuration Management solution that offers a powerful automation tool and management visibility into the health, policy and compliance of the network.
“Visibility into these essential services is critical as enterprises look to optimize resources and bolster their networks to accommodate new initiatives like virtualization and cloud computing, which require real-time, dynamic and automated network infrastructure services,” stated Steve Nye, Infoblox executive vice president of Corporate Development and Product Strategy, in a press release. “Infoblox is committed to helping organizations manage IT challenges by delivering enterprise-class network infrastructure control solutions.”
The Infoblox NetMRI enables enterprise IT organizations to collect and analyze network infrastructure configurations. Ensuring that the infrastructure is resilient, secure, fully integrated with automated IP address management capabilities, Infoblox DDI solutions automate the delivery of DNS and DHCP on a network. It thus gets advantages such as network infrastructure resiliency, real-time visibility and management, and automation of many traditionally manual, time consuming and error-prone tasks.
In January 2010, the company made available its iPhone (News - Alert) application, the Infoblox iGrid, in the iPhone App Store. An enterprise monitoring application, the Infoblox iGrid App is perfect for customers who use Infoblox’s purpose-built systems for delivering essential core network services, such as domain name resolution, IP address assignment and IP address management services, among others. Itinerant network professionals are set to benefit most from the Infoblox iGrid application.