University of Wyoming Selects Infoblox Appliances for Nonstop DNS and DHCP Services

Market Wire, February, 2008

Infoblox Inc. today announced that the University of Wyoming, the largest provider of baccalaureate and graduate education in Wyoming, has selected and deployed Infoblox appliances to deliver internal and external domain name resolution (DNS) and IP address assignment (DHCP) -- core network services that play an essential role in almost all network applications.

"Infoblox has a reputation for quality, ease of use and delivering on its promises," said Matt Kelly, network manager of DNS and DHCP at the University of Wyoming. "Infoblox lived up to its reputation -- it is an appliance that works the way you expect it to and it takes very little effort to maintain."

The University's main campus is located in Laramie, and maintains the UW/Casper College Center, nine outreach education centers across Wyoming, and cooperative extension service centers in each of the state's 23 counties. The IT network is instrumental to delivering the 180 educational programs and services to its more than 13,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional level students.

However, one "program" that was earning failing grades was the University's previous, antiquated system for delivering DNS and DHCP services. It frequently failed, causing staff and students to lose network access and preventing outside constituents from accessing the university web site and services. Additionally, the old system ran on Sun and required a Solaris systems administrator to do upgrades and patching -- a cumbersome and manually intensive process that took days.

To remedy these problems, the University of Wyoming IT team evaluated several new options and selected Infoblox due to its integrated, secure and highly reliable appliance-based solution.

Bradley Thomas, network specialist at the University of Wyoming, summarized the advantages of Infoblox: "Our DNS and DHCP system has gone from academic probation to the Dean's List in a matter of a semester. We have not experienced one outage. The updates and patching that used to take two days worth of man power can be done in minutes. And, because of the delegated administration capabilities, departments can now manage their own domains taking additional burden off of the IT department."

The University selected six Infoblox-1050 appliances running the DNSone® package. Installation was easy, and they were able to upgrade the software with the click of a button using Infoblox's unique grid technology. What used to take one or two man days a month is down to minutes.

For more information about Infoblox products, visit: http://www.infoblox.com/products/ .

About Infoblox

Infoblox appliances deliver utility-grade core network services, including domain name resolution (DNS), IP address assignment and management (DHCP and IPAM), authentication (RADIUS) and related services. Infoblox solutions, which provide the essential "glue" between networks and applications, are used by over 2,000 organizations worldwide, including over 100 of the Fortune 500. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., and operates in more than 30 countries. For more information, call 1.408.625.4200, email info@infoblox.com , or visit www.infoblox.com .

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