BlueCat’s Adaptive DNS Platform Helps IT Teams Extend, Secure, and Automate Hybrid Networks
Key takeawaysThis key takeaway was generated through LLMs crawling the page and coming up with an overview of the content.BlueCat announced enhancements to its Adaptive DNS platform that address growing complexity at the network edge driven by cloud, DevOps, and security demands. The release emphasizes intelligent networking, automation, and security to provide visibility across hybrid environments, operate at machine speed for policy enforcement and threat remediation, and serve as an intelligent control plane to protect data and extend hybrid IT securely. Demonstrations at Cisco Live highlight integrations with Cisco DNA and ServiceNow and expanded community-powered automation workflows to accelerate network provisioning, validation, and incident collaboration.
How do the new BlueCat Adaptive DNS capabilities help enterprises manage complexity introduced by cloud and DevOps?
The article explains that Adaptive DNS leverages intelligent networking, automation, and security innovations to tackle complexity from cloud, rapid application development, containerization, and orchestration. By providing visibility into users, devices, and applications across hybrid environments and operating at machine speed, BlueCat can implement smart policies, automate resource provisioning, analyze data, and remediate threats. This enables CIOs and network teams to use rich contextual DNS data to make intelligent routing, performance, and security decisions at the network edge where dynamic services and workloads are concentrated.
What integrations were announced and what operational benefits do they provide?
BlueCat announced integration with Cisco DNA and ServiceNow. The Cisco DNA integration synchronizes global address pools and sub-pools between Cisco DNA Center and BlueCat, allowing centralized IPAM automation, faster network deployment, and automated subnet provisioning and validation through a single pane of glass. The ServiceNow integration enables network and security teams to collaborate on networking requests and security incidents more quickly, accelerating resolution and improving incident workflows by connecting DNS/IPAM context into IT service management processes.
What automation and community resources does BlueCat offer to accelerate deployment and provisioning?
The article states BlueCat is expanding community-powered workflows available on GitHub to meet customer demand for automation and integration. Available workflows include those supporting Ansible, Anycast, and a variety of common network provisioning tasks that can be rapidly downloaded and deployed using BlueCat’s intelligent automation solutions. These community workflows extend BlueCat’s automation capabilities, allowing organizations to streamline provisioning, integrate with orchestration tools, and reuse validated automation for faster, more consistent network operations.
The platform enables a new approach to tackling complexity at the network edge, driven by cloud, DevOps, and security demands.
TORONTO, ON–June 5–BlueCat, the leader in Adaptive DNS, today announced enhancements to its market-leading DNS platform. These new capabilities utilize intelligent networking, automation, and security innovations to dynamically scale, efficiently self-configure, and rapidly respond to threats. DNS, the neglected foundation of today’s complex network fabric, is getting smarter, more agile, and more responsive to help network teams quickly adapt to new challenges.
BlueCat Adaptive DNS helps enterprise network teams in the following ways:
- Provides visibility and insight into the state of users, devices and applications anywhere – across hybrid environments, from the network edge to the core.
- Operates at machine speed to implement smart policies, automate resource provisioning, remediate threats, and analyze data.
- Provides an intelligent control plane to protect sensitive data, stop threats, and enable the secure extension of hybrid IT.
“Enterprise IT teams are wrestling with compounding complexity introduced by cloud, rapid application development, containerization, orchestration, and a myriad of other innovations. In this environment, old-school DDI (DNS, DHCP and IPAM) just doesn’t cut it,” said Michael Harris, CEO of BlueCat. “CIOs need insight on how to use rich, contextual DNS data to make intelligent routing, performance and security decisions at the network edge where the action is. That’s what Adaptive DNS delivers.”
BlueCat will be demonstrating the latest Adaptive DNS at Cisco Live from June 10-13, 2019, including:
Integration with Cisco DNA:
BlueCat’s integration with Cisco DNA makes it easier and faster to deploy new networks in Cisco DNA by providing centralized IPAM automation and management via BlueCat. Cisco DNA global address pools and sub-pools are synchronized between Cisco DNA Center and BlueCat, enabling customers to automate and validate IP subnet provisioning within Cisco DNA Center through its single pane of glass.
Integration with ServiceNow:
BlueCat’s integration with ServiceNow enables network and security teams to collaborate and resolve networking requests and security incidents faster.
Enhanced Automation and Community-powered Workflows
Furthermore, Bluecat continues to expand the number of community-powered workflows available on Github, in response to customer demand for increased automation and integration capabilities. In addition to the Cisco DNA integration, workflows that support Ansible, Anycast, and a variety of common network provisioning tasks are available for rapid download and deployment using the BlueCat intelligent automation solutions.
About BlueCat
DNS is the foundation of increasingly complex enterprise networks. But if it isn’t designed for change, the entire business is fragile. Think outages. Downtime. Data loss. BlueCat helps enterprise network teams thrive on complexity with Adaptive DNS. Adaptive DNS is powered from the network edge to core, scaling to meet escalating demands by users, applications and services. It’s open and automated, able to rapidly enforce policies, manage security, analyze data and remediate threats.
Thrive on complexity from edge to core with BlueCat Adaptive DNS™. For more information, please visit bluecatnetworks.com
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