BlueCat acquires LiveAction to drive network modernization and optimization
BlueCat’s acquisition of LiveAction will allow customers to expand their view beyond DNS and dive deeper into the health of their network.
Key takeawaysThis key takeaway was generated through LLMs crawling the page and coming up with an overview of the content.BlueCat has completed its acquisition of LiveAction to combine BlueCat’s expertise in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) with LiveAction’s network observability and performance management capabilities, enabling customers to modernize and optimize networks more effectively. The integration expands visibility from DNS-level insights to comprehensive traffic flows, packet-level capture, and performance monitoring across protocols, helping organizations detect and resolve network and security performance issues before they impact applications and services. BlueCat plans to share use cases, deliver integrations between offerings in the months ahead, and leverage LiveAction’s team to drive growth, innovation, and improved operational outcomes for large organizations.
How does LiveAction complement BlueCat’s existing DDI solutions?
LiveAction complements BlueCat’s DDI solutions by adding network observability and performance management capabilities that extend visibility beyond DNS, DHCP, and IP address management. While BlueCat provides authoritative information about what is on the network and automates provisioning, orchestration, and configuration of foundational services, LiveAction provides a source of truth for what is happening on the network through traffic flow visibility, bottleneck identification, and packet-level capture and analysis. Together, these capabilities enable teams to isolate sources of response time issues, inform network policy, optimize capacity, and proactively address performance and security challenges.
What practical benefits should customers expect from the acquisition?
Customers should expect a more complete and proactive approach to network health and performance: combined DNS/DDI visibility with traffic- and packet-level observability enables earlier detection of issues that could affect applications and services. This integration helps organizations ensure networks are both modern and optimized—reducing the risk of performance, reliability, and security impacts—while informing network policy and capacity planning. BlueCat also plans to share use cases and deliver technical integrations between offerings in the coming months, which will further streamline operations for large organizations.
What are BlueCat’s next steps in integrating LiveAction and how will that affect existing customers?
BlueCat plans to share use cases between the combined offerings and deliver integrations between BlueCat and LiveAction solutions in the months ahead, leveraging LiveAction’s expertise and personnel to accelerate innovation and customer value. Existing customers can expect enhanced operational capabilities that bring together BlueCat’s DDI source-of-truth with LiveAction’s real-time visibility into traffic flows, bottlenecks, and packet-level diagnostics. The companies emphasize supporting customers through the integration to make networks smarter, more efficient, and more secure, while using shared capabilities to address network and security performance issues proactively.
We’re thrilled to announce that BlueCat has closed its agreement to acquire LiveAction.
Today marks the beginning of an exciting chapter for both our companies and, most importantly, our customers. Together, we’re uniquely positioned to help organizations modernize and optimize their networks in a way that has never been done before.
At BlueCat, we’ve always been committed to network modernization, helping our customers ensure that their networks are agile, resilient, and prepared for the future. However, we know that modernization alone isn’t enough. Without optimization, even the most modern change-ready networks can suffer from performance, reliability, and security challenges. That’s where LiveAction comes in.
The power of network observability and performance management
LiveAction’s expertise in network observability and performance management is the perfect complement to BlueCat’s deep understanding of DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (known together as DDI). With LiveAction, we can expand our view beyond DNS and dive deeper into the health of the network itself. This means our customers will get a full picture of their network—from DNS-level insights to comprehensive traffic flows and performance monitoring across all network protocols. That helps large organizations get ahead of network and security performance issues before they impact applications, customers, and business services.
One of the most exciting aspects of this acquisition is how LiveAction’s network observability platform provides visibility into network traffic flows and bottlenecks while enabling packet-level capture and analysis. This granular view of network performance is a distinct advantage that sets us apart from other DDI solution providers, and it’s something that will enable our customers to tackle network challenges more proactively and effectively.
Building on our legacy: From Indeni to LiveAction
In 2023, we acquired Indeni (re-branded as BlueCat LiveAssurance) because we recognized that organizations needed to assure the health and performance of DDI services and their associated load balancers and firewalls. Acquiring LiveAction extends those capabilities, enabling organizations to isolate the source of response time issues, inform network policy, and optimize network capacity.
BlueCat’s industry-leading DDI solutions are the source of truth for what is on the network. We help network teams automate and secure the provisioning, orchestration, and configuration of foundational network services. LiveAction’s solutions provide the source of truth for what is happening on the network—empowering network and security teams alike.
Looking ahead: growth, innovation, and integration
The combination of our strengths means that we can offer unparalleled support to our customers. Together, we’re not just modernizing networks; we’re making them smarter, more efficient, and more secure.
We look forward to the journey ahead and are confident that this acquisition will unlock new opportunities for growth and innovation. We’re sharing use cases between our offerings with common customers and expect to deliver integrations between our offerings in the months ahead. We’re also excited to welcome LiveAction’s talented employees to BlueCat. Their expertise, passion, and innovative spirit will help drive even greater value to our customers.
Thank you for your continued trust in BlueCat and LiveAction.
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Stephen Devito is the Chief Executive Officer of BlueCat Networks. He joined BlueCat as Chief Financial Officer in February 2018 and also served as Chief Operations Officer before becoming CEO in September 2020.
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