From Cognitive Overload to Clarity: The Infoblox Portal

Let's take a step back to the early days of our ancestors in the Great Rift Valley, where survival depended on our evolving ability to acquire, store, recall and manipulate learned information. This set of unique skills became known as "human cognition." Fast forward to today, and we face a new challenge: cognitive load, or the mental effort required to process information.

Our modern world is bombarded with new information and tasks that increase our cognitive load. Eventually, we reach a breaking point where the sheer volume of data from our applications, devices and the world around us becomes overwhelming. According to a recent study of nearly 1,000 employees and managers, 38 percent of employees say they receive an "excessive" volume of communications at their organization, and 27 percent reported feeling at least somewhat overloaded by information. This means that employees report they are overwhelmed by the number of information sources available at the organization, feel there is no point in keeping track of the information they receive, and spend their day attending so many meetings that they have no energy left for their actual job. We all know this trend of increasing cognitive load will continue.

Although our ability to process the massive onslaught of information has significantly improved since our ancestors first learned to walk upright, it is still finite. From the evolution of simple fire to sophisticated firewalls, our software should help alleviate this problem, not add to your cognitive load.

Say Goodbye to Overload

Infoblox is pleased to announce our completely redesigned Infoblox Portal, featuring a new navigational model and a modern user interface (UI) to enhance your operational experience and significantly improve business productivity. This update is more than just a cosmetic overhaul; it's a strategic move designed to enhance user experience, streamline operations, and prepare Infoblox for the future of networking and security. This strategic move aims to instill confidence and reassurance in our users.

This new UI is not just about aesthetics; it's about making your job easier. With more intuitive navigation, efficient workflows, and the right data in the right place at the right time, the enhanced UI significantly improves your ability to manage critical network services and security workloads. It allows you to process and use information effectively without feeling overwhelmed, enhancing your productivity and job satisfaction, and significantly reducing that dreaded cognitive load.

What's New in the Infoblox Portal?

Beyond simply the visual appeal, this update was a necessity to pave the way to efficiently deliver our latest set of game-changing products and services, including:

• Infoblox Universal DDI Management: The industry's first, most comprehensive, fully SaaS solution for hybrid and multi-cloud critical network services management. Manage resources across existing NIOS, Infoblox DDI and public cloud providers without switching between multiple applications and management consoles. Universal DDI Management minimizes the productivity loss associated with Context Switching (which can cause up to a 40 percent productivity drop-off).
• Infoblox Universal Asset Insights: Automated discovery and analysis of assets for unmatched visibility and in-depth insights across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, providing users with critical data about assets on their networks.
• NIOS-X as a Service: An actual as-a-service deployment model for Infoblox hosts and services, enabling rapid deployment and scaling of network services to respond to fluctuating demands quickly. There is no need to wait for a new server or virtual host to be provisioned; deploying new resources and services is just a click away, and Infoblox will handle the rest.

These new products and their benefits are only possible with the latest UI experience, ensuring the new functionality works seamlessly with intuitive workflows, key performance indicators (KPIs), metrics and insights across your environment. It's a blissfully beneficial symbiotic relationship!

Explore the New UI Elements

Beyond the incredible new functionality this update enables, let's examine the new elements users will find in the UI.

Configuration and Monitoring Lifecycles: In the Infoblox Portal, we have introduced the concept of Lifecycles. These are user-specific and tailored to your journey. The lifecycles are split into a Configuration Lifecycle and a Monitoring Lifecycle, each focusing on different aspects of your role and journey.

• The Configuration Lifecycle simplifies the setup, configuration and monitoring of essential network services to ensure customers can get up and running quickly and provide an optimized eye on the health of these critical services. Here, users easily navigate to set up their core services, security policies, integrations and more.
• The Monitoring Lifecycle focuses on providing business visibility through custom asset, security and networking monitor workspaces.

Asset, Security, and Network Workspaces: The Infoblox Portal provides out-of-the-box workspaces with custom-designed monitors crafted by our industry experts to deliver real-time visualizations of critical metric summaries. These workspaces allow users to quickly assess the health of their networking and security environments. With these insights, you can take immediate action without waiting for reports or updates. Alongside these new workspaces, we continue to provide our time-tested Threat Defense and DDI reports, logs, and research tools that we know and love as part of the Monitoring Lifecycle.

Business KPIs: At the top of our Monitoring Lifecycle landing page, you'll notice a lovely ribbon of critical KPIs that immediately and succinctly answer these questions about your environment to quickly understand the impact of the Infoblox solutions in securing essential business assets.

"How many critical threats were blocked today?"

"Are there zombie servers on my network?"

"What is my current DNS resolution time?"

"Is that metric higher or lower than it was yesterday?"

All these questions and more can be answered at a glance with the Portal's KPI ribbon.

Industry-Standard Layouts for Common Components

Along with these improvements, you'll notice the relocation and redesign of the standard system components to align with the common standards for modern SaaS applications. These layouts include the User Profile options, Account selection and Notifications to provide a familiar and user-friendly experience, flattening the learning curve for new users and making the transition seamless for existing users. This emphasis on user-friendliness is designed to make you feel more comfortable and at ease.

Ultimately, the Infoblox Portal UI update will empower users to quickly deploy, configure and run a secure and scalable DDI solution while providing insightful data about their environment, all via an intuitive experience.

Embrace the Future with Infoblox

The new Infoblox Portal is more than just an update; it's a revolution in managing your network and security operations. By reducing cognitive load and enhancing user experience, we empower you to focus on what truly matters-driving your business forward.

With intuitive navigation, efficient workflows and powerful new features, like Universal DDI Management, Universal Asset Insights and NIOS-X as a Service, the Infoblox Portal is designed to meet the demands of today's dynamic networking environment. We aim to make your job easier, more efficient and more enjoyable, and we also aim to lighten your cognitive load-now, and well into the future.

Learn More

Ready to revolutionize hybrid, multi-cloud networking and security? Don't miss our Universal DDI 3-Part Webinar Series with our esteemed Chief Evangelist, Cricket Liu! Discover how to tackle the complexities of managing critical network services in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Each session, led by our expert, offers invaluable insights and practical solutions to streamline operations, enhance visibility, and optimize costs.

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And that's not all! Join us at Infoblox Exchange 2024 to discover game-changing innovations that empower you to tame complexity, eliminate silos, stop threats earlier, and scale elastically across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. In 14 cities across the globe, Exchange 2024 will unveil groundbreaking solutions that enable you to synchronize vital network functionality across all clouds, protect proactively with DNS-layer defenses, and bring networking and security together as never before to get critical insights faster and deploy apps sooner.

Don't miss out on these opportunities to enhance your knowledge and network with industry experts.

Also, stay tuned for more insightful blogs coming your way soon at Infoblox.com.

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