Independence Blue Cross of Pennsylvania deploys Infoblox appliances with network services suite

Infoblox Inc. today announced that Independence Blue Cross of Pennsylvania has selected and deployed Infoblox appliances to deliver highly reliable and manageable domain name system (DNS), IP address assignment (DHCP) and IP address management (IPAM) services. Independence Blue Cross is Philadelphia's largest healthcare insurer with 2.4 million members locally and 3.3 million nationwide.

“The Infoblox team worked closely with us, providing local customer references and an unmatched level of expertise that made our decision simple.”

"The biggest reason we selected Infoblox was because of its superior technology and design, simple appliance upgrade procedures and a solid game plan for how to migrate from the previous solution," said Darin Freeman, Manager of Distributed Systems at Independence Blue Cross. "The Infoblox team worked closely with us, providing local customer references and an unmatched level of expertise that made our decision simple."

Independence Blue Cross purchased eight Infoblox-1050 appliances with the network services suite that includes Infoblox's unique Grid™ technology for internal DNS, DHCP, TFTP and IPAM. Independence Blue Cross has installed four units in its primary datacenter in Harrisburg, Pa., two units at their disaster recovery site and two others in its downtown Philadelphia facilities.

"DNS is mission-critical," continued Freeman. "Since installing Infoblox, we have reduced labor costs to maintain the system and eliminated all single points of failure. Failover is now automated, we have vastly improved our disaster recovery capability and eliminated the need to do tape backups of the DNS database. We are now in a better position to handle future mandates like DNSSEC and our new IP phones."