Infoblox

Infoblox, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Computer networking
Founded	Chicago, Illinois (1999)
Founder	Michael Lanski
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California
Key people	Jesper Andersen (CEO)
Number of employees	600+ (2012)
Parent	Vista Equity Partners
Website	infoblox.com

Infoblox is an IT management tool technology company based in California's Silicon Valley. The company focuses on managing and identifying devices connected to networks—specifically for the Domain Name System (DNS), , and IP address management.

Infoblox was founded in 1999 in Chicago, Illinois, by Michael Lanski who was at the University of Illinois. The company moved to Santa Clara, California, in 2003.

In 2010, Infoblox acquired Netcordia which provided technologies for network task automation. Later in the same year, the company integrated Infoblox IP address management technology with Netcordia's network configuration and change management technologies. As virtualization and cloud computing became increasingly prevalent in data centers, automation was marketed using the term distributed virtual infrastructure. The company added DNS security products, and it also supplies hardware appliances to host its software. Infoblox joined commercial and government groups, and independent research, and made generally available as open-source software.

Network management became increasingly crucial, after a sharp rise in computer crime, especially attacks that exploit DNS servers, such as DNS spoofing and distributed denial-of-service attacks. In 2012, 7.8 million new malware threats emerged. Mobile threats grew by 1,000 percent, and 865 successful breaches compromised 174 million records. DNS servers in particular are vulnerable to hacking, and often used in destructive attacks such as the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) attack that hit The New York Times and Twitter in 2013. In December 2013, it estimated 6,000 customers, which included government organizations as well as businesses.