By Deepika Mala, TMCnet Contributor
March 15, 2010 - Baptist Healthcare System Inc., one of the largest not-for-profit-healthcare systems in
Mark Flynn, Lead Network Engineer, Baptist Healthcare System Inc., commented, “Healthcare IT is evolving and becoming more real-time. In healthcare, we cannot afford down-time with our network. With our old systems, we frequently experienced server and DNS/DHCP service failures requiring failover. And, unfortunately, for many years we were vulnerable to DNS-related issues because we were not running the latest release of BIND.”
Flynn added, “Now, using Infoblox appliances in high availability pairs, and taking advantage of the company’s Grid technology, we have an added layer of redundancy in our datacenter. We love the ‘one-button’ upgrades Infoblox provides and above all, with Infoblox, we simply no longer have to worry about reliability issues or security vulnerabilities crippling our network.”
A total of 12 appliances have been purchased by Baptist including two Infoblox-550 appliances for each hospital and two Infoblox-1050s for their main datacenter, serving as Grid masters. Using Infoblox Grid technology, all the appliances are linked together and managed as a unified system.