BlueCat announces new capabilities to help organizations modernize their network infrastructure
Enhanced products and expanded portfolio offerings provide flexibility and control to manage, secure, and build complex, multicloud networks.
Key takeawaysThis key takeaway was generated through LLMs crawling the page and coming up with an overview of the content.BlueCat Networks announced expanded capabilities across its portfolio following 2023 acquisitions of Indeni and Men&Mice and investments in Integrity and Edge, addressing the real-world problem of legacy, inflexible networks that hinder cloud adoption and automation. The release enhances Integrity (an integrated authoritative DDI platform) with new DNS record type support, dynamic DHCP reservation deployment, multi-primary DNS architectures, advanced APIs, and a Quick Service adaptive application for role-based DDI tasks; Edge adds broader hardware and Nutanix support for improved DNS visibility and security. Micetro (from Men&Mice) and LiveAssurance (from Indeni) received updates for third-party integration, observability, fault prediction, and automation, delivering operational benefits that improve uptime, security detection, and faster remediation for network, DevOps, and security teams.
What new capabilities does BlueCat Integrity introduce and how do they help network operations?
Integrity’s newest release adds support for additional DNS record types, dynamic deployment of DHCP reservations, and the ability to create redundant multi-primary DNS architectures. These features improve time-to-service for clients and applications by accelerating automation and enabling flexible, resilient DNS configurations that maintain operations during outages. Integrity also expands API capabilities to better integrate with third-party systems such as ServiceNow and Terraform, and introduces Quick Service, an adaptive application that enables role-based access to common DDI tasks—allowing limited-expertise users to add subzones or records without risking unintended deletions.
How does Edge enhance DNS security and what platform support was expanded?
Edge acts as an intelligent DNS resolver and caching layer that gives visibility and control over DNS traffic in any environment, helping security teams detect and protect against threats like DNS tunneling, DNS hijacking, and domain generation algorithm attacks. The recent updates expand support to all BlueCat hardware server models in a standalone service mode and add platform support for Nutanix, giving customers more deployment choice and helping avoid vendor lock-in for virtual or hyperconverged platforms while maintaining DNS security and observability.
What improvements did Micetro and LiveAssurance receive and what operational impacts can customers expect?
Micetro’s newest release improves support for third-party DNS and DHCP solutions by offering flexible deployment and management controls to help maintain network uptime; it can also be bundled with dedicated appliances to add protocol-service robustness and reliability. LiveAssurance, from BlueCat’s Indeni acquisition, now includes an enhanced analytics dashboard and new automation that predicts and auto-triages faults across DDI and firewall devices (including BlueCat Integrity, Broadcom Symantec, Check Point, and Palo Alto Networks). Together, these updates improve observability, accelerate detection and remediation of issues, and reduce operational risk for network and security teams.
TORONTO, March 27, 2024 (Globe Newswire)—BlueCat Networks, a leading provider of core services for network infrastructure management, automation, and security, announced the availability of exciting new capabilities across its expanded portfolio.
“Organizations need to modernize their networks or risk falling behind,” said Stephen Devito, CEO of BlueCat. “Our 2023 acquisitions of Indeni and Men&Mice, along with expanded investments in our Integrity and Edge solutions, provide organizations with the flexibility and control necessary to manage, build on, and secure their networks so they can achieve their goals.”
An integrated and authoritative DDI platform
DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (collectively known as DDI) are the cornerstones of network modernization. Together, they ensure that users can access network resources and applications from anywhere and on any device–whether on premises or from any cloud. Integrity is an integrated and authoritative DDI software and hardware management platform proven at scale with the most demanding enterprise customers.
Integrity’s newest release introduces support for new DNS record types, improving the time to service for clients and applications, while dynamic deployment of DHCP reservations accelerates automation. Organizations can now create redundant and flexible multi-primary DNS architectures to ensure uninterrupted network operations in the event of an outage. And Integrity delivers advanced API capabilities to improve integration between Integrity and third-party applications (such as ServiceNow or Terraform).
Furthermore, Quick Service is a new Adaptive Application for Integrity that simplifies daily tasks for network users with limited DDI expertise. It allows network admins to provide role-based access control, enabling selected users to quickly perform key DDI tasks while reducing the risk of unlimited access to the DDI platform. For example, selected users can add a subzone, a host record, or an alias record, all while preventing the deletion of these records.
Multicloud network management and security
Edge is BlueCat’s intelligent DNS resolver and caching layer that provides unprecedented visibility and control over DNS traffic hosted in any environment. Edge can help security teams leverage DNS data to detect—and protect against—DNS tunneling, DNS hijacking, and domain generation algorithm attacks on the network.
Edge now offers expanded support for all BlueCat hardware server models in a standalone service mode and platform support for Nutanix. BlueCat’s support for Nutanix offers more choice for customers who want to avoid vendor lock-in for their virtual or hyperconverged platforms.
Network orchestration and IP address management
Acquired from Men&Mice in 2023, Micetro offers a network orchestration and IP address management solution for organizations that require an overlay with their existing DNS and DHCP infrastructure. Our newest Micetro release improves support for third-party DNS and DHCP solutions by providing flexible deployment and management control to maintain network uptime.
Micetro can also be optionally bundled with dedicated appliances. This allows admins to extend their Micetro environment with the robustness and reliability of a purpose-built protocol service DNS/DHCP appliance.
Network observability and intelligence
The result of BlueCat’s acquisition of Indeni, BlueCat LiveAssurance predicts, identifies, and auto-triages issues in your network firewalls and DDI environment. It codifies community and multiple vendor-sourced fault detection data to proactively alert network and security teams and provide recommended actionable remediation steps.
The most recent release of LiveAssurance introduces an enhanced analytics dashboard, which helps users identify problematic devices faster. It also includes new automation to help predict and resolve potential hardware and software faults for BlueCat Integrity, Broadcom Symantec, Check Point Secure Gateways, and Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls.
Transforming network infrastructure management
These enhanced product capabilities and portfolio expansions help network, DevOps, and security teams deliver shared network capabilities that are fast, flexible, reliable, and secure. A 2023 Enterprise Management Associates report found that a BlueCat DDI implementation could earn customers $1.5 million in additional financial benefits within the first year.
“Our customers are realizing the benefits of transforming their network infrastructure from an inflexible utility to one that’s optimized for change,” said Devito.
About BlueCat
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 intelligence. BlueCat’s DDI management platform was recognized as a market leader and outperformer in GigaOm’s 2022 and 2023 Radar reports. The company is headquartered in Toronto and New York and has additional offices in Germany, Iceland, Japan, Singapore, Serbia, and the United Kingdom. Learn more at bluecat.com.
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