The change-ready network
The link between core services and business agility
It’s never been this hard to manage a network
Not that long ago, reliable and secure global connectivity—between data centers, clouds, and branches across every device and location—was a big competitive advantage.
Now it’s an essential business requirement.
Today, networks evolve fast. Huge feats of engineering expertise are quickly metabolized into baseline expectations, and soon replaced by ambitious new requirements.
And if you manage a network, you know this better than anyone: The appetite for change is moving faster than the capacity to deliver it.
The change capacity of your business is capped by the change capacity of your network
Here’s the problem.
The world—your users, your market, and your business—has internalized reliable, secure, and ubiquitous network connectivity as a solved issue.
But legacy DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (together known as DDI) services can barely keep up with baseline daily requirements—let alone new transformation initiatives like remote work, cloud adoption, IoT, SASE, or SD-WAN.
While the change environment is accelerating, there’s an avalanche of obstructive complexity in your DDI environment.
We call this disconnect the modernization gap.
Closing the modernization gap
The modernization gap has two main causes.
First, the legacy—and often native—DDI solutions your business started with have fallen way behind the business you’ve become.
Second, as your network requirements have increased, the teams that manage, secure, and build on the network have diverged. Network, security, cloud, and DevOps teams work in different systems, use different data, and pursue different—and sometimes competing—objectives.
To close the modernization gap you need two things:
A consolidated and automated DDI system
Unified core services that drive more performance, reliability, and security across the network with less manual work
Shared capabilities for everyone touching the network
To help network, security, and cloud teams break out of silos and form one group with shared goals and a coherent view of the environment
Core services for accelerated network modernization
Core services for accelerated network modernization is our solution to the growing modernization gap in networks today.
It’s a portfolio of products and solutions designed to do two things:
Consolidate, automate, and modernize the core services underpinning your daily and transformational network requirements
Empower network, security, cloud, and DevOps teams to work together to help your organization accelerate
The result is core services that optimize your network for change—so that the way you manage, route, and secure traffic becomes a competitive advantage instead of a chokepoint.
The change-ready network
To meet rising user demands
To support transformational initiatives
To help your business unlock new lines of revenue
Our goal is to help every customer build a change-ready network that’s effortlessly performant, secure, observable, and assured in all contexts.
Change-ready networks are built on a foundation of core services with the automation and transparency needed to orchestrate change, anticipate risk, and maintain performance as new network requirements emerge.
Want to know more?
Take a look at how we’ve helped customers build a change-ready network.
BlueCat provided a excellent platform for the migration of our legacy DNS system to a more secure platform. Additionally, being able to use automation, we had important operational gains (cost and agility).
Network architect, internet software and services company
The migration to BlueCat has allowed my organization to consolidate the management footprint of our DDI environment from having to manage a fleet of servers individually to be able to manage the entire stack through a single pane of glass.
Senior systems engineer, automotive company
BlueCat is a reliable DNS and DHCP server and IPAM is crucial to managing our network. Before we maintained spreadsheets that weren’t always updated so we would run into IP address conflicts. With BlueCat, all addresses are assigned through IPAM so it is centrally managed and always up to date.
Network engineer, education services company
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