Overview:

Managing critical network services such as DNS in a multi-cloud environment can be complex and hinder the effective utilization of cloud resources. Infoblox Cloud Network Automation streamlines this process by automating network management tasks, enhancing visibility, and improving control over cloud services.

Key Challenges:

• Time-consuming network configuration for virtual machines (VMs) can delay deployment.
• Limited visibility and auditing capabilities for IP addresses and DNS records across VMs.
• Incomplete and unreliable cloud orchestration platforms for native DDI services.
• Insufficient multi-cloud and hybrid cloud correlation, leading to operational blind spots.

Key Benefits:

• **Simplify Critical Network Services Management: **Centrally manage DDI, DNS, and IPAM provisioning across complex cloud environments, automating critical network services.
• **Gain Visibility: **Serve as a single control plane for network operations, providing comprehensive visibility and discovery of all VMs and network assets, allowing administrators to focus on priority tasks.
• **Improve Auditing and Reporting: **Enable cross-cloud auditing and reporting for DNS records, DHCP leases, and IP addresses, while utilizing templated integrations and APIs to enhance cloud workload deployment speed.
• **Make Clouds More Agile: **Accelerate provisioning and deprovisioning of network services in cloud environments, reducing project timelines from days to mere minutes or seconds.
• **Make Clouds More Reliable: **Offer local, redundant DDI services for every cloud instance, ensuring higher availability and improved local survivability.
• **Make Clouds More Scalable: **Utilize the flexible deployment architecture of the Cloud Platform Appliance, accommodating unique requirements through scale-up or scale-out options.
• **Reduce Staffing Costs: **Achieve significant manual labor savings through task automation, supported by a central management GUI for all automation tasks, reducing overall human resource requirements.

Key Capabilities:

• **Cloud Network Automation: **Centralized, integrated management interface across cloud and virtualization platforms, with detailed visibility into cloud-based resources, including VMs, tenants, and networks.
• **Cloud Platform Deployment: **Virtual appliance options tailored for cloud deployments, enhancing scale and reliability.
• **Cloud Platform Integrations: **Robust IPAM integration with platforms like VMware, OpenStack, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Docker, along with rich APIs for managing NIOS objects with role-based access control (RBAC).