March 2008
Enterasys Networks Inc., the Secure Networks Company™, announced that InfoJobs, the leading employment and job search Web site in Spain, has selected Enterasys solutions to improve and protect its corporate network, which supports its production platform as well as its QA (quality assurance) and development platforms. InfoJobs is the first privately owned career network in Europe and one of the most popular sites on the Internet. Since its foundation in 1998, the company has improved its users’ experience with new features and services and grown its global community through strategic international expansion. InfoJobs bases its continued success on the principle of helping professionals and companies meet each other. Security is an indispensable requisite for the network, and the Enterasys Secure Networks architecture helps guarantee the integrity of the information stored by InfoJobs.net.
“The new Enterasys-based infrastructure allows us to better manage the network security in a global way,” said Josep Maria Camps, InfoJobs’ Chief Information Officer. “This issue was critical during the process to choose the partner, and Enterasys was the company which offered more guarantees.”
InfoJobs’ network backbone internally supports an important amount of traffic for the entire production environment. Three remote offices in Barcelona, Madrid and Bilbao are also connected with several other remote staff locations which require quick access and reliability.
InfoJobs sought to enhance the switching capacity at the core with a highly scalable, easy-to-manage and highly available platform. The company needed a new network able to support the growing traffic on its Web site, while also improving fault tolerance, allowing for future growth, and delivering better network access control.
The InfoJobs project, developed along with Enterasys partner Telindus, has been focused on the upgrading and updating of the network core infrastructure. This upgrade has involved both the physical migration of the equipment to other locations within the data center facilities and the logical migration to the new equipment. Both tasks have been implemented simultaneously, with no downtime during the migration phase of deployment.
Enterasys’ Matrix® N-Series equipment was selected by InfoJobs to handle many diverse tasks through its granular visibility and control of users and applications. These flow-based switches easily integrate into multi-vendor environments, due to a standards-based design. The enhanced network reduces management costs, while Enterasys NetSight® enables InfoJobs’ IT staff to gather relevant information about traffic in a graphical way. The integrated system for monitoring, troubleshooting and scalability simplifies routine tasks and enables an easy way to define security and priority policies.
“We have seen network management burdens drastically reduced with Enterasys. The project savings have chiefly come from the cut in the number of maintenance operations, the management of these operations and the management of the equipment,” Camps added.
The new IT infrastructure provides InfoJobs with a set of benefits and advantages to manage the network infrastructure, such as:
* The ability to segment the network and protect against inappropriate uses. Through an advanced network management suite, IT managers can easily and quickly enforce changes within policies in a centralized way. It enables a single monitoring point for the traffic flow crossing the network.
* Interoperability in a multi-vendor environment. It is especially important for InfoJobs, because one of their targets is to make progress towards the achievement of a completely homogeneous network, at the core, distribution layer and access level.
* Convergence. With Enterasys’ solutions in place, InfoJobs’ IT staff can make additional deployments of mission critical applications without network downtime. The solution also offers protocol convergence, multi-user and multi-protocol authentication capabilities, and network access control.
* High availability. With an infrastructure featuring redundancy based on two Enterasys Matrix N7 switches, InfoJobs’ network interconnects mission critical machines while ensuring high availability and no single point of failure.
Apart from technical benefits, the new network offers a set of business benefits, such as the reduction of management costs, now that InfoJobs has migrated from a stackable environment to a new redundant chassis core architecture.
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