DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & Cloud3 DDI Ways to Improve your Network Automation JourneyWhen tasked with rolling out new network infrastructure in hundreds or even thousands of retail stores to support the digital transformation initiative of his company, imagine what the Infrastructure Director of a worldwide retail brand has to plan for. The DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) components would likely come last or even not be considered at all. In addition to the design of the new network infrastructure matching the Digital Transformation goals, the technical assessment of the readiness of each site, the logistics,...
DDIDHCPDNSDNS SecurityIPAMNetwork AutomationSOLIDserver 7.3: Boosting Network Automation, Security and ControlRelease 7.3 of SOLIDserver builds on the importance of the centralized IP Source of Truth data repository and open APIs to boost automation capabilities of DDI. With a focus on simplifying network management and easy ecosystem integration, the new functionalities introduced bring enhanced visibility over infrastructure resources and users, helping improve operational efficiency and control while strengthening security. The main features introduced with Release 7.3 include the following: 1) Network Identity Manager for Enriched IT Automation With Identity Manager, the...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudAccelerating Transition to the New Normal: Top 5 Predictions for 2021After the challenging events in 2020, the effects of the Covid pandemic will continue throughout next year, ensuring remote working & remote customers will remain in the limelight. In order to function, businesses will have no choice but to transform, both from organizational and societal viewpoints. The result will be rapid acceleration of digital transformation projects, covering key initiatives like edge computing, multi-cloud, zero-trust security, autonomous networks and infrastructure-as-code. So as organizations continue their transition to the “new normal”, here...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationScalability and Internet Performance: Top Considerations for RetailersThe late ‘90s was really the beginning of the Internet and DNS. The technology was fun to play with, but was really only required if a user was sending emails to someone on the ARPAnet or, later, accessing one of those new web servers. Internally, most companies used a different naming service, such as host tables. Today, nearly every TCP/IP-based network of any size uses DNS as its naming service, and almost all non-trivial applications on those networks rely on...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationRuby for SOLIDserver DDIAutomation is important in modern infrastructures and application deployment requires specific infrastructure services to be running properly. Having a central repository of information that can be easily used by any external automation system and with any programming language is a must have for all system and networking teams. We have covered how to use Python with the SOLIDserver in a previous blog, here we start using the Ruby language for DDI, with the help of OpenAPI initiative. Why use Ruby?...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationEnhancing Ansible Inventory with DDIAnsible is a configuration manager whose main role is to bring devices to a specific level of configuration. Ansible uses an inventory from which it selects devices to configure, this is where a DDI solution EfficientIP’s suite of SOLIDserver products can bring many benefits like exhaustiveness, robustness, integrity and extensibility through actionable metadata. Ansible is able to handle complex situations through regrouping of several small tasks into “playbooks”. Tasks are available for multiple operating systems, applications, and device vendors in...
DDIDNS SecurityIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudSOLIDserver 7.2: Enhancing Network Security and Cloud VisibilityThe new release of SOLIDserver 7.2 is radically geared towards the Internet, the ecosystem and the cloud. It brings more visibility on cloud resources, eases integration and digital transformation, and places the IPAM at the heart of I&O solutions. The release brings new features and updates many DDI components, mainly in the areas of network automation and security. 1) Better control over multi-cloud with Cloud IPAM Sync Nowadays, computing resources can be deployed in any kind of cloud and any...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationSOLIDserver IPAM Integration to Cisco DNA Brings Last Mile AutomationEfficientIP DDI solution (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) is now available on the Cisco Marketplace as a companion to the intent-based network solution Cisco DNA. After the availability of the DNS Guardian security integration with Cisco Umbrella, we’ve now brought robust IPAM to Cisco DNA. The EfficientIP product suite offers rich automation processes linking all the components of its ecosystem, from IPAM to DNS and DHCP services, but also with applications, devices and network discovery. Combining these automation capabilities with the Cisco DNA solution...
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudEnsuring High Quality Software at EfficientIP with QA Digital FactoryThis week’s blog comes from QA automation expert Nabil Bourenane. There are domains where software requires a high level of quality since any major bug can lead to high service impact. At EfficientIP we are developing such a strategic solution – to put in place a digital testing factory that helps us release stable versions with minimal regression impact. Why do we need a digital testing factory? Our factory is embedded in the development process and serves the following objective:...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudGain Central Visibility Across All Your AWS Cloud VMs With IPAM RepositoryOne of the main promises of the cloud native principle is elasticity. Workload should be able to benefit from a flexible infrastructure and scale whenever necessary. The primary and easiest component to scale up and down is the virtual machine, as most enterprises are still using servers. But with network teams simultaneously creating, modifying and destroying hundreds of VMS across multiple clouds in multiple locations, network administrators are quickly left with outdated status visibility and unmanageable management complexity. The obvious...
