As the executive vice president of Engineering at Infoblox, I’m thrilled to announce our partnership with Google Cloud. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in our commitment to simplifying enterprise networking and security while helping organizations accelerate their cloud transformation journey.
There are two components to our partnership announcement Infoblox Universal DDI™ for Google’s Cloud WAN and DNS Armor, powered by Infoblox. In this blog, I’ll touch on how we are addressing networking challenges for distributed sites with Universal DDI for Cloud WAN. You can read about how we are helping to secure cloud workloads in our blog “Infoblox Collaborates with Google Cloud on Protective DNS Security” by Mukesh Gupta, chief product officer at Infoblox.
The Enterprise Networking Challenge
Today’s enterprises face a critical inflection point in their network infrastructure strategy. As organizations increasingly embrace cloud-first workloads in the AI era, they struggle with the operational complexity and high costs of managing wide-area connectivity solutions. Traditional approaches, whether using expensive Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) circuits or managing complex SD-WAN deployments in colocation facilities, create significant operational overhead and strain IT budgets.
The challenge becomes even more formidable when delivering and managing critical network services, like DNS and DHCP, across distributed enterprises. Organizations face a difficult choice: They can opt for a distributed architecture, deploying hardware/software appliances at each site. While this approach delivers higher resiliency and optimal low-latency performance, it’s costly to deploy and manage. Alternatively, they can implement a centralized architecture with hardware/software appliances deployed in a data center, servicing all DNS/DHCP traffic from one location. This centralized approach reduces deployment and management costs but results in a suboptimal user experience with higher latencies and creates vulnerability to widespread outages, as all sites depend on the same centralized infrastructure.
Simplifying Global Enterprise Networking in Collaboration with Google Cloud
That’s why I am particularly excited about our partnership with Google Cloud, in which we are integrating Universal DDI for Cloud WAN. This fully integrated solution is not only cost-efficient and easy to deploy and manage, but it also offers unmatched performance and reliability at scale compared with traditional MPLS and WAN alternatives.
Infoblox Universal DDI for Cloud WAN
This cloud-native offering combines Google’s own world-class global Cross-Cloud Network infrastructure with Infoblox’s industry-leading DNS and DHCP capabilities. By integrating Universal DDI with Cloud WAN, we are enabling organizations to:
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership with the simplicity of a single global WAN, replacing multiple bespoke WAN and MPLS solutions to connect workloads, offices, data centers and users across the world over the Google private backbone.
- Leverage Google’s premium global network that connects billions of users around the world to essential services like Gmail and YouTube, spanning 2 million miles of fiber and 33 subsea cables across 200+ countries and territories.
- Deliver reliable infrastructure-free DNS and DHCP services, replacing on-premises hardware and virtualization software for critical network services with a simplified cloud-delivered alternative.
- Gain unified asset visibility with Universal Asset Insights,1 automatically discovering conflicting subnets, zombie assets and dangling DNS records across public clouds to help eliminate outages, reclaim orphaned resources and address security risks.
- Secure branch locations with comprehensive threat protection2, enabling rapid response to security incidents and consistent security policy enforcement across all sites through Infoblox Threat Defense.
What sets this solution apart is the deep integration work completed by our engineering teams. We have removed the integration burden from customers, delivering a seamless, cloud-native experience. This simplified approach extends to procurement as well, with our products available for transaction through the Google Cloud Marketplace.
Figure 1: Infoblox Universal DDI’s NIOS-X services integrated in Cloud WAN
Why This Partnership Matters
As organizations continue their cloud transformation journey, the need for simplified, secure and cost-effective networking solutions has never been greater. This partnership between Infoblox, trusted by 75 percent of Fortune 500 companies, and Google Cloud, a leader in cloud innovation, delivers exactly that.
The integration of Universal DDI’s NIOS-X as a Service with Cloud WAN represents more than just a technical achievement—it’s a transformation in how enterprises can approach their networking infrastructure. Organizations can now leverage Google’s premium global network while maintaining the enterprise-grade DNS and DHCP services they’ve come to expect from Infoblox, all without the burden of managing physical infrastructure.
Looking Ahead
As enterprises continue to evolve their cloud strategies, we remain committed to delivering innovations that simplify networking, enhance security and accelerate business transformation.
The future of enterprise networking is cloud-native, and through this partnership, we’re making that future accessible to organizations today. I invite you to explore how our integrated solutions can transform your network infrastructure and prepare your organization for the challenges ahead.
To learn more about the Infoblox and Google Cloud partnership and our innovative solutions, be sure to stop by Booth 3436 at Next. We are looking forward to connecting with you.
Footnotes
- Universal Asset Insights is an optional add-on.
- With the additional purchase of Infoblox Threat Defense.
