BlueCat’s DDI Adaptive Plugins and Applications help IT teams better leverage ServiceNow, Ansible, Microsoft, and more
A growing suite of Adaptive Plugins and Applications will help automate existing BlueCat capabilities along with adjacent customer technologies.
Key takeawaysThis key takeaway was generated through LLMs crawling the page and coming up with an overview of the content.BlueCat announced a suite of Adaptive Plugins and Applications to help IT teams accelerate network automation and more efficiently deliver services across hybrid environments. The offerings provide out-of-the-box, supported integrations for ServiceNow, AWS, Azure, Microsoft Active Directory, Ansible, OpenStack, and features like Global Server Selector and Adaptive Failover to improve provisioning speed, resilience, and self-service. By reducing manual errors and addressing training and skills gaps, these plugins aim to centralize DDI visibility, enable automated or manual failover, and surface actionable insights via reporting to support hybrid cloud and rapid application development initiatives.
What real-world problems do BlueCat’s Adaptive Plugins and Applications address?
BlueCat’s Adaptive Plugins and Applications tackle practical issues such as slow provisioning, decentralized DDI visibility across hybrid cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP coming soon, and Active Directory), manual provisioning errors, and lack of self-service for business users. They also address resilience challenges by enabling highly available routing to the closest application server and offering automated or manual failover through the Adaptive Failover Package. Additionally, the suite helps mitigate training and skills gaps that impede automation adoption by providing supported, out-of-the-box integrations and customization options, speeding time-to-value for IT teams.
Which technologies and integrations are supported by the new Adaptive Plugins and Applications?
The article specifies integrations and support for ServiceNow for expedited IT requests and BlueCat Device Registration for third-party device security. It centralizes DDI across hybrid cloud with visibility into AWS and Azure (GCP coming soon) and Microsoft Active Directory. For provisioning and automation, it supports Ansible and OpenStack. It also includes the BlueCat Global Server Selector for directing clients to the closest application server, the Adaptive Failover Package for manual or automated failover control, and a DDI Reporting Package that provides industry-standard network reports to glean actionable insights.
How do these plugins improve operational outcomes for IT teams?
According to the article, the plugins improve operational outcomes by accelerating provisioning speed and agility, enabling self-serve options for business users, and centralizing DDI visibility across hybrid cloud environments. They increase infrastructure resilience through high-availability routing and controlled failover, and reduce manual errors by providing standardized automation and reporting with the DDI Reporting Package. The offerings are fully supported and designed for easy customization and out-of-the-box configuration, which lowers the barrier created by training and automation skill gaps and helps IT teams deploy flexible, automatable self-service capabilities more quickly.
TORONTO, September 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ – BlueCat, the Adaptive DNS Company™, is empowering IT teams to accelerate their adoption of network automation solutions to more efficiently deliver services to the enterprise. Today the company unveiled a growing suite of Adaptive Plugins and Applications meant to help automate existing BlueCat capabilities along with adjacent customer technologies.
Adaptive Plugins and Applications come fully supported, offer seamless out-of-the-box configuration, and easy customization to help:
- Deliver self-serve options to business users by integrating with ServiceNow for expedited IT requests or utilizing BlueCat Device Registration portal for securing third party devices.
- Centralize DDI across hybrid cloud by providing visibility into AWS, Azure, GCP (coming soon), and Microsoft Active Directory.
- Accelerate provisioning speed and agility with support for Ansible and OpenStack.
- Increase the resilience of critical infrastructure by ensuring highly available access to the closest available application server with BlueCat Global Server Selector and flexibility to control manual or automated failover using BlueCat Adaptive Failover Package.
- Optimize infrastructure to reduce manual errors by gleaning actionable insights from industry standard network reports using BlueCat DDI Reporting Package.
A recent poll of BlueCat’s Network VIP community confirmed that training and development time are a significant barrier to deploying much-needed network automation solutions. “As the demand for immediate provisioning of complex workloads increases,” says BlueCat Chief Strategy Officer Andrew Wertkin, “IT teams are under pressure to quickly deploy flexible and automatable self-service options for users. The human resources and automation skills gaps are a significant roadblock to this. Our growing list of Adaptive Plugins and Applications addresses the problem, by placing the power to meet the organizational need into the hands of our customers’ IT staff.”
The full list of Adaptive Plugins and Applications can be found here: https://bluecatnetworks.com/adaptive-dns/integrations/./
About BlueCat
BlueCat is the Adaptive DNS™ company. The company’s mission is to help the world’s largest organizations thrive on network complexity, from the edge to the core. To do this, BlueCat re-imagined DNS. The result – Adaptive DNS™ – is a dynamic, open, secure, scalable, and automated resource that supports the most challenging digital transformation initiatives, like adoption of hybrid cloud and rapid application development. Learn more at bluecatnetworks.com.
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BlueCat provides core services and solutions that help our customers and their teams deliver change-ready networks. With BlueCat, organizations can build reliable, secure, and agile mission-critical networks that can support transformation initiatives such as cloud adoption and automation. BlueCat’s growing portfolio includes services and solutions for automated and unified DDI management, network security, multicloud management, and network observability and health.
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