Mercy Medical Center Standardizes on Infoblox Appliances for DNS/DHCP and Other Core Network Services

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwire - March 31, 2008) - Infoblox Inc., today announced that Maryland's Mercy Medical Center, rated one of the top medical facilities in the United States, has selected and deployed Infoblox appliances to deliver internal and external domain name resolution (DNS), IP address assignment and management (DHCP/IPAM), as well as other core network services.

Mercy Medical Center is a full service hospital delivering a comprehensive range of health services including internal medicine, obstetrics, urology, pediatrics, cardiology, rehabilitative care and emergency medicine. With more than 600 physicians and 2600 employees, the Mercy Medical Center depends on its IT network to effectively serve its patients in these practices. Core network services like DNS and DHCP are essential to the daily operation of the Mercy Hospital network and applications like Voice over IP (VoIP), which requires highly reliable and easily tracked IP address assignment services.

In fact, a planned VoIP implementation -- expected to reach 3,000 handsets by 2010 -- is what prompted the Mercy Medical IT team to evaluate its previous core network services systems: Microsoft Active Directory servers in conjunction with Excel spreadsheets to manage IP addresses, which were too cumbersome to manage, insecure and often unreliable.

After evaluating several competing products, Mercy Medical Center standardized on Infoblox appliances to deliver core network services for the hospital's entire IP network and applications, including its new VoIP application. The Infoblox core network services infrastructure will provide the scalable and robust platform to support the hospital's new 18-story patient care tower expected to open in 2010.

"The Infoblox product helped us stabilize, simplify and strengthen our core network services infrastructure," commented Mark Rein, senior director of Information Technology, Mercy Medical Center. "Now, instead of spinning cycles managing multiple domain controllers and ad-hoc systems, my team can focus more on the tough things like the clinical applications themselves. More importantly, with Infoblox, we rest at night trusting it will not go down." Rein concluded: "And, when our brand new hospital is completed in 2010, the core network services infrastructure is already in place for a seamless transition."

Infoblox appliances deliver reliable, manageable, scalable, and secure core network services and are designed for nonstop operation in high-performance networks. The Mercy Medical Center is using Infoblox appliances running as high availability pairs dispersed at two data centers in the Baltimore area. More Infoblox appliances are in a grid serving internal and external DNS, DHCP and configuration file transfer (TFTP) services.

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 2,200 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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