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March 09, 2015

DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management Grows into its Own

The area of DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI) is seeing organic expansion, with initial small deployments becoming an enterprise-wide phenomenon.

“We are beginning to see an early-stage trend whereby organizations that have deployed a commercial DDI solution are now looking to expand it,” said Gartner (News - Alert) analysts Andrew Lerner and Christian Canales, in a report. “The two primary use cases for this expansion include internal cloud deployments and increased infrastructure security.”

In looking at the needs of organizations moving to cloud environments, the report estimates that roughly 20 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.

The space is also gaining wings thanks to the security challenges facing network teams.

“Due to recent high-profile attacks, organizations are generally more willing to invest in security solutions,” the analysts said. “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.”

The report found that security components such as DNS firewalls now exist in roughly 20 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, CMO at Infoblox, which sponsored the report. “Infoblox is an industry leader in meeting these emerging needs with products such as Infoblox Cloud Network Automation (News - Alert), 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.”




Edited by Dominick Sorrentino
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