BlueCat evolves its DDI portfolio to empower IT and network admins
New features tame network complexity, reduce costs, improve security, and automate DDI tasks to drive rapid innovation.
Key takeawaysThis key takeaway was generated through LLMs crawling the page and coming up with an overview of the content.BlueCat Networks announced a broad set of releases across its DDI portfolio, including Integrity 9.4, Edge 4.0, Gateway 22.4, and Cloud Resolver, aimed at increasing speed, security, and ease of use for DNS, DHCP, and IP address management. The releases introduce automation, bulk-data APIs, improved analytics and reporting, and enhanced IPv6 support to reduce manual errors, accelerate provisioning, centralize policy governance across branches, and simplify hybrid cloud migrations. Early customer feedback from a large healthcare technology provider and a value-added reseller highlights faster bulk exports, improved reliability insights, reduced downtime, and simplified management across on-premises and hybrid environments.
What are the main functional improvements in Integrity 9.4 and how do they speed up provisioning?
Integrity 9.4 introduces new automation tools and faster mechanisms for provisioning DNS data, including APIs that enable searching and returning bulk datasets with a standard, easy-to-use data query language. These changes reduce service times by making calls less resource-intensive and allowing administrators to query and extract large datasets quickly — an example cited is exporting just over one million entities in 90 seconds. By automating repetitive tasks and enabling bulk operations, Integrity 9.4 minimizes manual configuration steps and the errors that slow down provisioning.
How does Edge 4.0 help enterprises manage distributed branch and remote office networks?
Edge 4.0 focuses on branch DDI by using automation to centralize management and policy governance across multiple locations while providing local survivability. This means organizations can apply consistent DNS, DHCP, and IPAM policies from a centralized platform yet ensure local services continue during connectivity disruptions. The result reduces error-prone manual workflows, minimizes downtime and latency at branch locations, and supports deployment across branch, remote, cloud, and hybrid environments as described by BlueCat and its partners.
What security and future-proofing capabilities are included across the new BlueCat releases?
The portfolio enhancements include improved analytics and reporting to uncover threats sooner and trigger automated responses to help avoid outages and breaches. BlueCat also improved dual stack transport and added support for IPv6-only environments to future-proof infrastructure for ongoing IPv6 adoption. Gateway 22.4 adds a full automation engine and rich API support, while Cloud Resolver simplifies DNS resolution in complex hybrid cloud environments — all intended to make deployments more secure, scalable, and adaptable to hybrid-cloud and modern networking demands.
TORONTO, April 7, 2022 (GlobeNewswire) — BlueCat Networks, the Adaptive DNS™ company, today announced a broad set of releases across its DDI portfolio to drive speed and efficiency, eliminate manual errors, and simplify migration to hybrid cloud.
BlueCat’s flagship product, Integrity, provides a management platform for DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (together known as DDI). Enterprises seeking to reduce service times will benefit from new automation tools that enable faster provisioning of DNS data using the 9.4 release. To learn more, view product demos of Integrity 9.4’s key features.
“Our suite of services is getting faster, more secure, and easier to use,” said Martin McNealis, BlueCat’s Chief Product Officer. “This helps our customers deploy key DDI services across their network environments — whether that’s branch or remote offices, cloud, or hybrid cloud. Wherever our customers conduct business, we’re helping them embrace automation to meet and beat service expectations.”
A BlueCat customer that manages IT for a large healthcare technology provider saw the benefits of these enhancements early on. “We can surface DNS and DHCP insights related to system reliability and availability faster than ever. Just over one million entities exported in 90 seconds,” they said, referring to the ability to query and return datasets in bulk.
Whether your enterprise supports banks, retailers, or universities, error-prone network configurations and provisioning tasks cost time and money, especially when there’s an outage. Branch DDI (part of the Edge 4.0 release) uses automation to centralize management and policy governance across multiple locations while providing local survivability.
Stefan Hungerbühler is the Co-CEO of Swiss-based Asecus AG, a BlueCat value-added reseller with extensive expertise in IT security for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. “Manual workflows are stifling innovation and putting enterprises at risk,” Hungerbühler said. “BlueCat’s portfolio enhancements minimize downtime, reduce latency, and keep our customers’ businesses secure.”
How else can customers benefit from the new portfolio?
- APIs that make search and return simple — Make faster and less resource-intensive calls to find and extract bulk data sets with a standard and easy-to-use data query language.
- Improved analytics and reporting — Uncover threats sooner and trigger automated responses to avoid outages and breaches.
- Future-proof infrastructure – Further enhancements to dual stack transport, plus new support for IPv6-only environments.
Visit our website for new features and capabilities coming to the BlueCat portfolio, including Integrity 9.4, Edge 4.0, Gateway 22.4 (full automation engine and rich API support), and Cloud Resolver, which simplifies DNS resolution in complex hybrid cloud environments.
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 branch to the enterprise to the cloud. 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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