Are you among the many IT professionals, CloudOps teams, NetOps teams, and decision-makers struggling to manage your hybrid and multi-cloud environments effectively? As organizations increasingly adopt these strategies to modernize their infrastructure, we all face new challenges. While multi-cloud environments promise faster innovation, best-of-breed solutions and streamlined operations, they also introduce complexity in providing critical network services, such as DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI).
As an integral part of your organization, how do you consistently deliver critical network services like DNS and DHCP across your entire environment? Public cloud DNS solutions, such as AWS Route 53, Azure DNS and Google Cloud DNS, work well within their respective clouds but fall short when extending services across other clouds or on-premises environments. This often results in CloudOps teams managing each service separately, sometimes even requiring isolated account management within a single cloud. Meanwhile, NetOps teams must maintain additional DNS services for on-premises locations.
Is your team grappling with the complexity of integrating these disparate services into a unified DNS solution for hybrid and multi-cloud environments? The reliance on multiple services and complex forwarding endpoints often results in configuration errors, increased costs and challenging troubleshooting, all while lacking centralized visibility and management. How can you navigate these obstacles to achieve a cohesive and efficient network management solution?
Moreover, the lack of centralized management for DDI introduces additional complications to your environment. DDI, notably DNS, are not “set and forget” services; cloud networks can be incredibly dynamic, creating and destroying daily workloads that require updated IP addressing and DNS records to make their services available. An update to DNS can require manually updating records and zones in separate DNS solutions for each cloud, leading to increased errors and network outages. Teams that manage these different DNS solutions are often siloed, requiring changes to be handed off between multiple teams, making service delivery inconsistent across the environment. How can you ensure seamless and reliable service delivery in a dynamic and complex environment?
Introducing Infoblox Universal DDI Management
Are you ready to embrace a more streamlined and effective way to manage your network? Fortunately, there is a better way: Infoblox Universal DDI Management, the first comprehensive, fully SaaS solution for managing critical network services across hybrid and multi-cloud networks. With Infoblox, you can overcome the challenges of managing disparate services, reduce configuration errors, and improve the speed and efficiency of service delivery.
How does Universal DDI Management transform your operations? By consolidating the configuration and control of numerous DDI services, including AWS Route 53, Azure DNS, Google Cloud DNS, Infoblox NIOS Grids, NIOS-X as a Service and more, it streamlines operations and significantly improves the speed and efficiency of service delivery across your entire network—regardless of the size and diversity of your hybrid cloud environment.
What makes Infoblox Universal DDI Management stand out? It separates the management and service planes of DDI, offering you greater flexibility and choice. Critical network services like DNS should be provided as close to the client as possible to simplify delivery, provide local resolution and reduce latency. Traditionally, implementing this type of optimal architecture would require deploying virtual or physical servers close to the clients or managing additional DDI solutions. However, with Universal DDI Management, the Infoblox Portal is your single management interface for all DDI operations, even when other DDI products provide the service.
Imagine the convenience:
- Clients in AWS can send queries to the Route 53 VPC resolver.
- CloudOps teams can use Azure DNS for Private Link.
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) can use native Google Cloud DNS to resolve services.
In each of these cases, management remains consolidated in the Infoblox Portal. This unified approach not only simplifies your network management but also enhances the reliability and efficiency of your services.
How Does It Work?
Infoblox Universal DDI Management integrates with the APIs of many DNS products, with a simple, one-time configuration to onboard services to the centralized management.
To onboard a new service to Universal DNS Management, create a discovery job that will sync DNS and IPAM from the service provider.
Configuration options let you choose to read DNS zones and records, or fully manage them with the Read/Write option. Additional configuration options provide choices on how to organize and use the discovered DNS data, such as consolidating or splitting DNS Views and whether to configure synced zones for forwarding.
Infoblox name servers can be assigned to cloud zones managed by Universal DNS Management, allowing for simplified resolution of cloud resources from on-premises or other clouds without the complexity of multiple forwarding rules and endpoints.
Changes to zones and records are pushed to the cloud DNS services, consolidating management in the Infoblox Portal with a simplified, consistent workflow across all managed DNS services.
Conclusion
But wait, there’s more! Infoblox Universal DDI Management is just one part of the powerful Universal DDI Product Suite. You’ll also find Infoblox Universal Asset Insights, which provides automated discovery and analysis of hybrid and multi-cloud networks, ensuring centralized and accurate IPAM. And that’s not all—NIOS-X as a Service allows you to serve DNS and DHCP without deploying any infrastructure, offering unparalleled speed and agility. These solutions deliver a comprehensive, unified approach to managing your critical network services efficiently and effectively.
Learn More
Ready to revolutionize hybrid, multi-cloud networking and security? Don’t miss our Universal DDI 3-Part Webinar Series with our esteemed chief evangelist, Cricket Liu! Discover how to tackle the complexities of managing critical network services in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Each session, led by our expert, offers invaluable insights and practical solutions to streamline operations, enhance visibility and optimize costs.
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And that’s not all! Join us at Infoblox Exchange 2024 to discover game-changing innovations that empower you to tame complexity, eliminate silos, stop threats earlier and scale elastically across cloud and on-premises infrastructure. In 14 cities across the globe, Exchange 2024 will unveil groundbreaking solutions that enable you to synchronize vital network functionality across all clouds, protect proactively with DNS-layer defenses, and bring networking and security together as never before to get critical insights faster and deploy apps sooner.
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