BlueCat accelerates IT network automation and orchestration with Integrity 9.5
Latest software version establishes a new API benchmark for DNS, DHCP, and IPAM (DDI) management to help network teams automate manual DDI tasks.
Key takeawaysThis key takeaway was generated through LLMs crawling the page and coming up with an overview of the content.BlueCat Networks announced Integrity version 9.5, enhancing its DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) management platform with greatly improved RESTful APIs to help network teams automate manual tasks across on-premises and cloud environments. The release addresses the real-world problem of brittle, manual DDI operations that slow digital transformation by providing open, discoverable, vendor-agnostic APIs, interactive in-browser testing, and IPv4/IPv6 protocol-agnostic automation. Customers and industry reports cited in the announcement show improved scalability, reduced errors, stronger audit and compliance reporting, and validation of BlueCat’s leadership in automated, enterprise-grade DDI management.
What are the primary automation improvements introduced in Integrity 9.5?
Integrity 9.5 delivers greatly enhanced RESTful APIs that enable broader automation of DNS, DHCP, and IPAM workflows across complex hybrid and cloud networks. The improvements include open, discoverable, and vendor-agnostic API endpoints designed for integration with standard toolchains, embedded interactive API documentation for in-browser testing of calls before building automations, and support for automating both IPv4 and IPv6 resource management. Together these features reduce manual DDI tasks, simplify third-party integrations, and support infrastructure-as-code practices for non-DDI practitioners.
How does Integrity 9.5 help organizations with compliance and auditing?
Integrity 9.5 provides enhanced API access to retrieve detailed state and configuration information about DNS zones and records, IP address blocks and networks, and DHCP ranges, enabling faster extraction of data required for audit, compliance, and reporting tasks. By centralizing DDI state through the platform and exposing it via well-documented RESTful APIs, organizations can programmatically produce audit trails, verify configurations, and demonstrate compliance more efficiently than manual methods or disparate tooling. This centralized visibility helps reduce errors and improves the reliability of compliance reporting across on-premises and cloud estates.
Why do customers and industry analysts consider BlueCat’s Integrity 9.5 important for digital transformation?
Customers and analysts see Integrity 9.5 as important because it addresses a common obstacle to digital transformation: lack of unified, automatable DDI that scales reliably across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Enterprise Management Associates highlighted that reliance on fragmented free/open-source DNS/DHCP servers or IPAM overlays inhibits scalability, security, and orchestration. By establishing an API benchmark for DDI—open, discoverable, and accessible—Integrity 9.5 enables organizations to automate core network infrastructure, reduce manual tasks by more than 90% in some cases, simplify third-party integrations, and support rapid application development and hybrid cloud adoption.
TORONTO, April 5, 2023 (Globe Newswire) — BlueCat Networks, the Adaptive DNS company, today announced new features for Integrity that will help network teams automate manual DDI tasks to improve speed and service delivery.
These enhancements are new to version 9.5 of BlueCat’s flagship software suite, Integrity, an integrated full-stack management platform for DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (collectively known as DDI) that provides real-time insight into the relationship between devices, users, and IP addresses across on-premises and cloud networks.
Version 9.5, now available generally, has greatly enhanced RESTful APIs to further automate network and configuration management across complex network environments. Many BlueCat customers have already embraced automation, eliminating more than 90% of manual DDI tasks.
There is now greater demand for DDI automation among all technology builders within IT — and across organizations more broadly — as enterprises rapidly develop and adopt applications and services to achieve their digital transformation goals. Customers need open, well-documented, and vendor-agnostic APIs that are easily accessible via standard toolchains.
“Today, BlueCat has established a new API benchmark for DNS, DHCP, and IP address management,” said Martin McNealis, Chief Product Officer. “Our products help customers to drive rapid change in critical network infrastructure while assuring reliability. By streamlining our APIs and making them open, discoverable, and accessible by a broader set of users, BlueCat is enabling true infrastructure as code for non-DDI practitioners.”
Enterprise Management Associates’ 2022 report, DDI Maturity Drives Multi-Cloud Automation and Security, found that many organizations lack a unified approach to orchestrating DDI. These organizations rely solely on free or open-source software for DNS and DHCP servers or a commercial IP address management overlay tool that integrates with third-party DNS services. This hinders scalability and reliability, makes networks less secure, and is an obstacle to automation and orchestration.
Customer feedback from early adopters has been overwhelmingly positive and validates BlueCat’s investment and leadership position. “Third-party integrations can now be further simplified and streamlined, resulting in better quality and fewer errors,” said a BlueCat customer who manages networks at an enterprise healthcare system provider.
How else can Integrity 9.5 users benefit?
- Accelerate automation: Scale network infrastructure management by using our enhanced RESTful APIs to automate tasks related to DDI.
- Maintain audit compliance: Find insights faster by retrieving information about the state of DNS zones or records, IP address blocks, networks, and DHCP ranges for audit, compliance, and reporting purposes.
- Easy testing: Test API calls in the browser before building out automation using embedded, interactive API documentation.
- IP protocol agnostic: Use the API to automate the management of both IPv4 and IPv6 resources.
Learn how to centralize control of core DDI services — and improve plug-and-play automation — with Integrity.
About BlueCat
BlueCat is the Adaptive DNS company. The company’s mission is to help the world’s largest organizations deliver reliable and secure network access from any location and any network environment. To do this, BlueCat re-imagined DNS. The result – Adaptive DNS – is a dynamic, open, secure, scalable, and automated DDI management platform that supports the most challenging digital transformation initiatives, like adoption of hybrid cloud and rapid application development. BlueCat’s DDI management platform was recognized as a market leader and outperformer in the 2022 GigaOm Radar report that evaluated all the vendors offering DDI Management. The company is headquartered in Toronto and New York and has additional offices throughout the world, including Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, Singapore, and Serbia.
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