BlueCat celebrates 20 years leveraging DNS to enable digital transformation
Now in its 20th year of business helping global enterprises manage their DDI, BlueCat recognizes all those who have played a role in the company’s growth.
Key takeawaysThis key takeaway was generated through LLMs crawling the page and coming up with an overview of the content.BlueCat Networks marked its 20th anniversary by recognizing its community and reaffirming its role in helping enterprises manage core network services (DNS, DHCP, IPAM) to support digital transformation. The company provides an integrated DDI platform across on-premises and cloud environments to enable initiatives like network virtualization, hybrid cloud adoption, infrastructure as code, and Zero Trust security, serving nearly 1,000 enterprises and partnering with firms such as Cisco, CrowdStrike, HashiCorp, and Verizon. BlueCat cites double-digit growth, strong customer satisfaction (NPS above 77 in Q4 2021), continued investment support from Madison Dearborn Partners, numerous workplace awards, and ongoing hiring as indicators that it will continue evolving its Adaptive DNS solutions to reduce risk, improve resiliency, and accelerate cloud and cybersecurity goals.
What is BlueCat’s core product focus and how does it support enterprise digital transformation?
BlueCat’s core product focus is an integrated DDI platform that manages DNS, DHCP, and IP address management across on-premises and cloud environments. By providing Adaptive DNS that is dynamic, open, secure, scalable, and automatable, the platform supports enterprise initiatives such as network virtualization, hybrid cloud adoption, infrastructure as code, and Zero Trust security. These capabilities help enterprises bridge the gap between core network services and business goals by reducing operational risk, improving resiliency, and enabling rapid change to support modern hybrid cloud environments.
Which types of organizations and partners work with BlueCat, and what recent customer wins illustrate its market position?
BlueCat serves nearly 1,000 enterprises, including large financial institutions, technology companies, manufacturers, regional healthcare facilities, government agencies, and educational institutions. The company partners with technology organizations such as Cisco, CrowdStrike, and HashiCorp, and has a strategic relationship with Verizon. A recent illustrative win is being selected as the DDI vendor of choice at a Fortune 20 retailer with support from Verizon, demonstrating BlueCat’s strengthened market position and appeal to large, complex enterprises.
What indicators does BlueCat cite for its business health and future growth plans?
BlueCat points to several indicators of business health and future growth: consistent double-digit growth with the same forecast for fiscal 2022 and beyond; a high customer satisfaction score with a Net Promoter Score above 77 in Q4 2021; numerous Stevie Awards and Great Place To Work recognitions reflecting company culture; and continued support from its majority owner, funds affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners, which invested in 2017 and will continue to back BlueCat’s evolution. The company is also hiring across disciplines and intends to keep developing solutions that advance cloud adoption and cybersecurity for enterprise customers.
TORONTO, December 17, 2021 /GlobeNewswire/ — BlueCat Networks, the Adaptive DNS™ company, today announced the celebration of its 20th year in business helping enterprises leverage core network services to enable digital transformation. This announcement celebrates, thanks, and recognizes the role of BlueCat’s community—employees, customers, partners, investors, friends, and alumni—in the company’s continued growth.
BlueCat provides an integrated platform that helps enterprises around the world manage their DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (together known as DDI) through both on-premises and cloud solutions. BlueCat’s platform better positions enterprise networks to support digital transformation initiatives such as network virtualization, hybrid cloud adoption, infrastructure as code, and Zero Trust security.
In 2001, Michael and Richard Hyatt founded BlueCat in response to a gap they saw in the market for DNS appliances. Twenty years later, the company has strengthened its position as a leading provider of Adaptive DNS, with nearly 1,000 enterprises relying on BlueCat’s integrated DDI platform, ranging from the world’s biggest financial institutions, technology companies, and manufacturers, to regional healthcare facilities, government agencies, and educational institutions. BlueCat also partners with leading organizations in the technology sector, including Cisco, CrowdStrike, and HashiCorp. Furthermore, with BlueCat’s people and teams having received numerous Stevie Awards for excellence in business and with an industry-leading Net Promoter Score above 77 in the fourth quarter of 2021, it’s clear that its customers love BlueCat, too.
Expanded partner relationships and BlueCat’s cutting-edge solutions have fueled continued double-digit growth, with the same forecasted for fiscal year 2022 and beyond. Most recently, with help from its new strategic partner Verizon, BlueCat was selected as the DDI vendor of choice at a Fortune 20 retailer. BlueCat’s growth and expansion will also continue to be supported by its investment partner and majority owner, funds affiliated with Madison Dearborn Partners (“MDP”). MDP funds invested in BlueCat in 2017 and MDP will continue to support BlueCat’s evolution and growth in the DNS solutions market.
Through all of this success, what underpins BlueCat’s achievements is its people. Over the years, BlueCat has collected dozens of awards for its culture, including Great Place To WorkⓇ recognitions in categories related to diversity, mental wellness, and technology. But beyond the accolades is a culture rooted in collaboration, clarity, curiosity, transparency, and ownership—and people who live it daily. BlueCat is currently hiring in a number of disciplines and maintains its commitment to diverse, equitable, and inclusive growth across its teams.
BlueCat will continue to develop solutions that help enterprises bridge the gap between core network services and business goals essential for cloud adoption and cybersecurity. The company remains dedicated to helping customers find ways to reduce risk, improve resiliency, drive rapid change, and take advantage of modern hybrid cloud environments.
“We are immensely proud of, and grateful to, every person who has had a hand in this company’s journey. I certainly am honored to be part of it,” said BlueCat CEO Stephen Devito. “We’ve accomplished so much in these first 20 years, yet it feels like just the beginning. I look forward to writing the next chapters together with everybody here.”
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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