Infoblox bolsters Universal DDI Platform with multi-cloud integrations

Infoblox announced several new capabilities for its Universal DDI platform that the company says will simplify DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (IPAM) across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Infoblox Universal DDI unifies critical network services—DNS, DHCP, and IPAM—into a SaaS-based management interface across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The platform automates tasks such as provisioning DNS records and IP addresses, and Infoblox integrates with third-party services to manage both its own services and others in one portal.

Infoblox updated Universal DDI to help enterprise organizations better manage complexity across their hybrid, multi-cloud environments. The new capabilities include:

• Universal DDI for Microsoft Management integration enables enterprises to gain control of their DNS and DHCP by centrally managing DNS and DHCP hosted on Microsoft server platforms.
• Integration with Google Cloud Internal Range applies consistent IPAM policies across Google Cloud, on-premises, and other cloud environments, which helps enterprise IT to avoid IP overlap issues and accelerate cloud application deployments.
• Unified Management of External DNS extends Infoblox’s single DNS management plane to external DNS providers, including Akamai and Cloudflare, which will allow IT organizations to control internal and external DNS through one dashboard.
• Strong Protection for Self-Hosted External DNS protects self-hosted infrastructure against DDoS and other DNS threats.
• Enablement for AI-Ready Networks applies AI/machine learning analysis to detect IP conflicts, dangling DNS records, and other risks across hybrid, multi-cloud networks, and ensures the foundation that generative AI workloads require.

“Enterprise IT is entering a pivotal era where generative and agentic AI are redefining what networks must deliver. AI technologies promise transformative efficiency and innovation, but they also demand a foundation of network speed, resilience, and unified control that legacy architectures struggle to deliver,” said Jim Frey, principal analyst at Omdia. “Modernization of core services that lie at the heart of a high-functioning, high-performing network—DNS, DHCP, and IPAM—is an essential step, and Infoblox is answering this directly with the Universal DDI solution. These most recent updates will close important gaps and help organizations build AI-ready networks that can scale with confidence.”

Customers report that the Infoblox technology helps them modernize their infrastructure and management.

“Infoblox Universal DDI has transformed how we managed DNS across our complex, multi-cloud environment,” said Alex Barrere, senior 2 core network engineer at Nordstrom, in a statement. “By consolidating fragmented components from Windows AD, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and soon OCI, we’ve reduced latency, improved observability, and increased operational performance by 30%. The deployment was seamless, and scaling with Infoblox has been effortless—whether it’s supporting 6,000 internal DNS queries per second or standing up new stores with cloud-managed DHCP. Infoblox is helping us modernize our infrastructure and prepare for the future of enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IPAM.”

Infoblox says that its platform updates come as enterprises face pressure to modernize critical network services while dealing with legacy tools that weren’t designed for hybrid infrastructure. Fragmented management approaches create silos and create blind spots for IT teams. The enhancements will help organizations prepare their networks to support AI workloads, which require reliable, high-performance infrastructure. Universal DDI is designed to provide the foundational network services that AI applications depend on, while automating processes that previously took weeks of manual work, according to the company.

“Network teams have been forced to choose between control and speed for far too long,” said Mukesh Gupta, chief product officer at Infoblox, in a statement. “With our new Universal DDI capabilities, that trade-off disappears. Customers can now centrally manage Microsoft DNS and DHCP without disruptive overhauls, eliminate IP conflicts in AWS and Google Cloud through seamless IPAM integration, and unify both internal and external DNS on a single management plane.”