Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 12 | Page 97

GITEX 2016 SPECIAL INFOBLOX Infoblox will make the Middle East launch of its Actionable Network Intelligence Platform that uses its network intelligence to provide actionable control points, visibility, and context. It will also demonstrate its DNS Firewall as a service solution that extends the company’s DNS protection to roaming devices off premise, as well as Infoblox Threat Insight that prevents DNS based data exfiltration with built-in streaming analytics. SILVER PEAK Silver Peak will showcase its Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution at GITEX. which provides distributed enterprises with virtual overlays to connect users to applications. “Virtual overlays add the software-defined in software-defined WAN by automating widearea networks. Overlays provide an abstraction layer that virtualises the underlying transport, and enables network administrators to quickly configure and deploy wide-area networks, cost effectively securely and at scale,” explained Bhaskar Peruri, Regional Manager, Middle East at Silver Peak. The Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect SD-WAN solution, which enables the firm to deliver on its vision of virtual application overlays, enables enterprises to reduce the cost and complexity of building a WAN by leveraging any combination of broadband transport to connect users to applications without compromising application performance. “Silver Peak Unity EdgeConnect solutions enable IT organisations to augment or replace their legacy MPLS networks with enterprisegrade broadband, further ushering in the age of the software-defined wide area network. It also delivers highly enhanced application visibility and control,” added Peruri. “With a number of successful customer deployments across the region, we’re looking forward to continued success in enabling and empowering our extensive partner network”. “Today, many organisations are mired in confusion when it comes to securing their networks and broader IT infrastructure. Threat intelligence services give warnings, but don’t provide a path for translating that information into action. Monitoring systems warn of malicious activity within a network, but don’t give clarity on where to find infected devices, user information, and other metadata. Most important, network and security administrators are drowning in data and alerts, with no easy way to prioritise effective and timely threat response,” said Cherif Sleiman, General Manager, MEA, Infoblox. The company will also demonstrate its Infoblox DNS Firewall as a Service solution – an upcoming cloud-based service that expands the value of customer investment in Infoblox by providing visibility, policy management, and context-aware security for devices on-premise and off-premise. Executives from the company will also showcase the Infoblox Threat Insight solution. Theft of sensitive or regulated data and intellectual property is one of the most serious risks to an enterprise. DNS is frequently used as a pathway for data exfiltration, because it is not inspected by common security products such as firewalls, IDS and proxies. Location: Hall 1 Location: Hall 6 www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 97