DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudWhat Smart DDI Means for Hybrid Clouds in Asia PacificThis week’s blog comes to us from our very own Nick Itta, VP Sales APAC. The growth of Asia’s digital economy is happening at breakneck speed, boosted by a high level of interconnected networks comprised of organisations and consumers. With a massive amount of IT infrastructure supporting the backend, organisations are striking a balance between managing data on private IT infrastructure or in public/private clouds, finding a middle ground referred to as the Hybrid Cloud. As business needs evolve given...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationEfficientIP DDI Brings IP Golden Records for Cisco ACI SDN SolutionCisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) brings to data centers a new integrated way of building networks and linking applications to users. The EfficientIP SOLIDserver communicates with the API proposed by the Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) in order to maintain a coherent view of the network overlay directly inside EfficientIP’s IPAM (IP Address Management) software, thus consolidating the repository of IP golden records. In an automation process designed to provision everything required for user to application communication, from the...
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMNetwork AutomationSOLIDserver 7.0: Bringing Enhancements for Simplifying and Securing Your NetworkWith the new release of SOLIDserver 7.0, EfficientIP continues to prove its pivotal role for networks in the areas of IP resource management, automation and security. This new release comes with exciting new features such as a brand new user interface designed to improve user experience. Powerful enhancements of our DNS Guardian highlight, more than ever, the key role of the DNS in the global network security ecosystem. DDI has not been left out either, with important evolutions to support...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityIPAMNetwork AutomationPrivacy LawsVirtualization & CloudIT and Networks 2019: Prediction of Biggest Impacts2019 is here, so it’s time to look closer at what this year will bring for network management, IT digital transformation and cybersecurity. What recent trends will plant their feet and stand firm? What overhyped buzzwords will prove to have no substance? And, importantly, what actions will organizations take from the multiple cyber attacks which dominated 2018? From network automation and SDN taking off, to the reappearance of zero trust and the continuous impact of current GDPR regulations, here we...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudUse Case: Cloud Automation Impact on Service Rollout SpeedCompanies are moving in droves to cloud, with the expectation that it will bring them enhanced agility for service rollout, and ideally considerable time and cost savings as well. The majority focus on orchestration tools for accelerating compute and storage, but IP resource provisioning and deprovisioning is often left as an afterthought. Generally, IP addresses are needed for all service components to communicate, not only with each other, but also with their environment. As a result, a deployment may remain...
DDIIPAMVirtualization & CloudEnsuring Cloud IndependenceBy 2020 over 90% of companies will be utilizing cloud services offered by multiple providers, using various orchestration tools. To ensure they retain full mobility and flexibility, businesses need to be wary of components which could potentially cause cloud lock-in. The first necessity is therefore to avoid relying only on a single technology or orchestrators which are “cloud-dependent”. And as operational efficiency in multi-cloud environments is dependent on accurate synchronization of IP resources across clouds, the second necessity should be...
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMVirtualization & CloudDDI Uncovered: Bringing Networks Substantial Time and Cost SavingsOnce upon a time, IT managers had a piece of paper in their hand detailing every IP address and MAC address within their organization. But how could such an approach work now? The modern enterprise has to cope with BYOD with any number of workers bringing any number of devices; with IoT where even parts of the building’s infrastructure will have their own IP addresses. Then there’s the growing use of cloud deployment, where parts of the corporate system no...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudWhy SDDC is Powerless without Automated DDI Provisioning ?Gartner has predicted that 75% of Global 2000 enterprises will require Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) by 2020. This move towards reliance on software-based infrastructure components is expected to bring agility to any service deployment workflow, and potentially also lower cost by using standardized hardware. However, realizing these benefits relies on infrastructure components being deployed and managed properly. This can only be achieved via automated provisioning of IP resources. As IP Address Management (IPAM) is at the core of this...
DDINetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudMake Cloud Orchestration Simple Through DDIThe cloud has driven the greatest change in enterprise IT strategy within the last three years, with the public cloud services market increasing by 69% since 2014, according to Statista. Whether it is a public, private or hybrid cloud deployment, technology leaders see the value cloud provides for their businesses, often considered as a strategic initiative as part of a digital transformation program. Due to the complexity of multi-cloud and managing many providers, cloud orchestration is now an important challenge...
DDIDNS SecurityInternet of ThingsIPAMVirtualization & Cloud2017: Bad Year for DNS Security, but Network Management Getting HotThe past year saw some of the largest cyber attacks on record such as WannaCry, Petya and Mirai. The emergence of new threats to the corporate network poses a critical issue to current network and DNS Security capabilities. Last year’s cyber attacks, which caused financial and reputational damage to private and public sector organizations, sparked necessary conversations about how employees and the public can be protected from future threats. In 2017 we also saw the enterprise IT environment becoming more...
