DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, 10th March, 2015—Infoblox,
the network control company, today announced that a new report from
Gartner, Inc., titled “Market Guide for DNS, DHCP and IP Address
Management (DDI),” says, “We are beginning to see an
early-stage trend whereby organizations that have deployed a commercial
DDI solution are now looking to expand it. The two primary use cases
for this expansion include internal cloud deployments and increased
infrastructure security.”
The report,
written by Gartner analysts Andrew Lerner and Christian Canales,
provides recommendations for deploying DDI and evaluates ten DDI
vendors, including Infoblox.
A complimentary copy of the report, released on February 24, 2015, is available now at www.infoblox.com/gartner.
In looking at the needs of organizations moving to cloud environments, the report says: “We
estimate that roughly 20 percent to 30 percent of large enterprises are
now deploying on-premises production workloads in a private or hybrid
cloud . . . Thus, some organizations are replacing the built-in CMP IPAM
capabilities with functionality provided by their pre-existing DDI
vendor. This helps to further automate service provisioning, including
IP address management and DNS.”
In looking
at the security challenges facing network teams, the report says: “Due
to recent high-profile attacks, organizations are generally more willing
to invest in security solutions. Further, organizations have increasing
concerns over protecting DNS, and many DDI vendors now provide
DNS-based security. Thus, we see an increased interest from clients in
DNS-based security associated with DDI solutions. Security components
such as DNS firewalls now exist in roughly 20 percent to 30 percent of
the client deals that Gartner reviews.”
“We are grateful
to have Gartner, one of the most influential voices in IT, validate the
need to include enterprise-grade DDI solutions in successful cloud
deployments and for protection of DNS infrastructure,” said David Gee,
chief marketing officer of Infoblox. “Infoblox is an industry leader in
meeting these emerging needs with products such as Infoblox Cloud Network Automation, Infoblox DNS Firewall, and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection.
We encourage everyone involved in managing and securing enterprise
networks to read Gartner’s comprehensive and insightful report.”
