American furniture retailer Rooms to Go has selected Infoblox (
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address assignment and management (DHCP/IPAM) services, and disaster recovery capabilities.
Rooms to Go purchased and deployed five Infoblox appliances, including Infoblox-1050 and Infoblox-550 systems, with the DNSone package for its main data centers and its disaster recovery center. Infoblox’s grid technology, which links appliances at central and remote offices into a unified, distributed system, is capable of ensuring nonstop delivery of core network services.
Infoblox appliances are deployed across all Room to Go's showroom networks in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. These retail outlets are located in areas prone to natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornados and flooding.
In the event of such a disaster affecting a showroom, Infoblox said Rooms to Go can use the designated Infoblox appliance grid members at a disaster recovery site and resume services and management of lost services by promoting the DR site member appliance(s) to serve as grid masters.
The resumption of service, company officials said, was likely to take only a few minutes. Other grid members throughout the organization will automatically re-home to newly designated DR site master appliances. They will be automatically updated with the data necessary to immediately respond to DNS queries and allocate DHCP
leases.
Rooms to Go was not satisfied with the products it had deployed before choosing Infoblox appliances.
“We needed a secure and reliable solution and Infoblox delivered,” said Jason Hall, IT manager at Rooms to Go. “With our business dependence on the network, failure is not acceptable. With our previous DNS
solutions we experienced multiple outages, downtime and instability. The Infoblox solution has given Rooms to Go a strong, secure, highly available and affordable solution.”
Nitya Prashant is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Nitya’s articles, please visit her columnist page.
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