Smart DDI

Integrated DDI services to simplify, automate and secure your network.

Business Agility and Performance Require Smart DDI Solutions

Business is evolving faster than ever, fueled by the need for new and innovative data-driven offerings, quick company reorganization, and operational efficiency improvements. In this highly competitive context, modern network infrastructures are a cornerstone of key IT initiatives: digital transformation, hybrid cloud, virtualization, SDN, NFV, IPv6, mobility, IoT, and more.

Regardless of size, complexity, and business focus, these market trends are adding extreme pressure on company networks – in particular network foundations such as DNS and DHCP services, and IP Address Management. DDI is a cornerstone of IT modernization and plays mission-critical roles: DNS server ensures access routing to almost all applications & services, DHCP server provides IP addresses to connect to the network, and IPAM (IP Address Management) defines the IP routing structure and maintains a central repository DDI resources to provide accurate visibility and help guarantee overall network consistency and policy enforcement.

Risks and Limitations of Disconnected DNS, DHCP & IP Address Management

DNS, DHCP and IP address management are at the core foundation of IP-based infrastructures upon which network access and application traffic routing rely. Those network services are deeply tied to each other at the administration level. Disconnected management has important negative consequences in terms of efficiency and operational risks.

Limited and siloed visibility on allocated resources across networks,
Ineffective overall consistency control of IP allocations, DNS and DHCP server configurations generating network incidents,
Manual error-prone tasks consuming a lot of time, with poor change management agility and velocity,
Weak DNS and DHCP resilience mechanisms implying high risks of IT services discontinuity,
Scalability issues causing inability to manage millions of IP addresses, or numerous DNS-DHCP servers,
Cloud automation restriction due to non-integrated IP resources provisioning and de-provisioning processes in the IT supply chain.