Unified DDI for retail
Modernize your network and optimize branch environments with resilient, automated, and secure DNS, DHCP, and IP address management
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The retail industry must continually optimize its networks to deliver a seamless and secure customer experience and respond to peaks in demand. The complexity multiplies when managing hundreds—if not thousands—of brick-and-mortar branch locations. And if the network goes down anywhere, it can result in substantial revenue loss and reputational damage.
With the help of BlueCat’s solutions, you can modernize your network to deliver core services—namely DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (together known as DDI)—that enhance resilience, optimize branch management, and bolster security.
A DDI solution for retail
With smaller footprints, branch locations need out-of-the-box infrastructure solutions to power their networks. Retailers can deploy SD-WAN solutions like Meraki to manage costs while also providing local DNS and DHCP services. However, visibility into and control over these solutions becomes increasingly complex for network and security teams to manage in a distributed hybrid and multicloud environment. BlueCat’s branch solutions provide end-to-end visibility and optimization of multicloud environments for retailers.
Downtime can be costly for retail, especially during peak periods like the holiday season. With high availability and failover designed from the start, BlueCat is trusted by some of the world’s leading retailers to help keep their networks and devices reliably running 24/7. BlueCat Integrity provides an industry-leading enterprise solution with seamless failover to ensure your DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (IPAM) is resilient, minimizing downtime and keeping operations humming. Or, BlueCat Micetro offers a fast and flexible software overlay for DDI visibility and control.
Retailers must ensure they have a robust and secure infrastructure that protects their networks and online payment systems from security threats. Enhanced data security is also critical for compliance with Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). BlueCat’s security solutions utilize industry-leading threat feeds, policy-driven security rules to protect devices and networks at the DNS level, and advanced algorithms to detect threats like DNS tunneling or domain generation algorithms. BlueCat’s protective DNS solutions also integrate with your existing SIEM or SOAR solutions, giving your security teams the relevant data they need.
The ability to make rapid network changes is critical to driving innovation. BlueCat’s Unified DDI solutions integrate with the most common IT management and network automation tools, such as ServiceNow, Ansible, and Terraform. Via APIs and directly through network protocols, our network automation and integrations allow for automating hundreds of thousands of changes each day, allowing you to scale faster.
And because we recognize that one size does not fit all, BlueCat solutions can also be customized to your specific automation needs with the help of our professional services team.
Retailers frequently use a multi-vendor approach to secure their networks. But with multi-vendor solutions comes increased complexity for managing configuration drift and diagnosing the root causes of issues. BlueCat’s Infrastructure Assurance helps you manage configuration drift across firewalls and load balancers, as well as observe the health and performance of your security and DNS environments.
Infrastructure Assurance provides proactive alerts for issues that can cause performance problems and generates recommended remediation steps to fix them before they impact your networks.
Retail trusts BlueCat
BlueCat is the trusted provider of mission-critical infrastructure software provider for some of the world’s leading online and brick-and-mortar retailers. We have a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions, including for branch locations, that cater to the industry’s unique needs. We’ve helped modernize change-ready networks, reduce costs, and optimize branch infrastructure for some of the largest retail household names in:
Home improvement
Quick-service restaurants
Grocery
Food and beverage
Pet supplies
Footwear and apparel
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