Infoblox Unveils Infoblox-4010

Offering the industry’s highest performance domain name system (DNS) resolution appliance, Infoblox (News - Alert) has announced availability of the Infoblox-4010.

A stand-alone Infoblox-4010 appliance can deliver more than 200,000 DNS queries per second for enhanced DNS and DHCP service resilience and management functionality.

When up to 50 grids of 250 Infoblox appliances are linked into a unified, centrally-managed platform, service providers deploying the appliance, coupled with Infoblox Grid technology and the Infoblox Trinzic Multi-Grid Manager, can support up to 3 billion DNS queries per second and 5 billion DHCP queries per day.

“DNS is an essential technology to keeping end users and their smartphones, laptops and businesses connected to the Internet,” said Zeus Kerravala, Principal Analyst with ZK Research and Affiliate Analyst with the Yankee Group (News - Alert). “To address the ever-expanding volume of DNS queries, while boosting reliability and reducing the administrative burden, service providers need a new level of DNS performance and scalability with central management capabilities.”

With partitioning based on customer, security and business-line preferences, the Infoblox infrastructure also can support up to 500,000 discrete networks. The Infoblox Trinzic Multi-Grid Manager also provides Infoblox-4010 appliance users with single “pane of glass” management.

Allowing administrators to implement changes, such as a software upgrade or a patch, with the touch of a button, this offers a global view into all grids within a network as well as into specific segments and devices of individual grids.

In September 2010, the company announced that Infoblox appliances has been deployed by the Independence Blue Cross of Pennsylvania to provide highly reliable and manageable domain name system “DNS”, IP address assignment “DHCP” and IP address management “IPAM” services.

Independence Blue Cross a large healthcare insurer in Philadelphia. It has 2.4 million members locally and 3.3 million throughout the country. Over 4,500 organizations around the globe, counting more than one third of the Fortune 500, uses solutions by Infoblox.