We performed a comparison between BlueCat Integrity and Infoblox IPAM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Adaptive DNS's best feature is DDoS protection, which stops malware and network security attacks."
"I've been impressed by BlueCat's performance and user-friendly GUI."
"The most valuable piece, which has been a lifesaver, would be the BlueCat DNS resolver. BlueCat Cloud DNS resolver is a tool that takes a look into your cloud's DNS and then reports back everything it finds into BlueCat's DNS Edge solution. The Edge solution has a bunch of nice rules that you can configure to route the DNS traffic. That automation alone is a lifesaver for me for the day-to-day churn of the DNS components that change on an hourly, daily basis."
"DNS aliases, which we use extensively in our applications are a valuable feature."
"One of the key features enabling us to operate at our current scale is robust automation."
"The most significant advantage of BlueCat is its foundation on open-source software, specifically BIND and ISC DHCP."
"Managing our BDI infrastructure globally is simple, and BlueCat's personalized relationship with us is valuable to our organization."
"BlueCat Integrity's scalability and user-friendliness are the most valuable features."
"The features we found the most valuable were being able to handle DHCP scopes and handing out DHCP leases. We weren't doing some of the things that we can do, such as DNS query rate limiting. Our usage was pretty standard. We wanted to be able to track our IP addresses to create DNS entries and then create DHCP and manage DHCP scopes. We used the standard features the most."
"Before IPAM (IP Address Management) came into the picture, every user had to depend on an Active Directory engineer to get an IP assigned. With Infoblox IPAM, there's automation or auto assignment of IP addresses which is a valuable feature. There's also the capability of storing many networks in one place through the solution. Infoblox IPAM solved the major issue of needing an Active Directory engineer to assign an IP."
"It provides us with flexibility."
"Regarding DDI, I would say the best feature of Infoblox is the DNS security. DNS tunneling is a significant security issue and is very difficult to protect against based on our tests with other types of security devices. However, Infoblox eliminates this issue and provides excellent security against a difficult threat."
"For me, the best feature of Infoblox IPAM is that you can use BloxOne DDI which means you can manage everything from the cloud and have security policies as well. I also like that Infoblox IPAM is plug-and-play."
"IPAM's best features include the view of how many soft nets are filled from your container and the grid master."
"This is a DDI solution and having one management control has been most useful."
"It helps to avoid manual mistakes and we can add the proper DNS if we add an Alias name to that. We are aware of the CNAME we need to use. By using Infoblox as a DNS, we can add the A and PTR records, which is helpful for the lookup as well as the reverse lookup."
"The IPAM dashboard could be enhanced to display more information and provide data analysis features."
"While the product is IPAM, DNS, and DHCP, it does provide NTP functionality, but one of the things that they have yet to correct or catch up with is NTP authentication. There are new standards being pushed out and they are lagging a little bit in supporting them."
"The integration has room for improvement."
"One complaint about the interface is BlueCat's handling of subzones."
"The ease of use is where I got to give a little knock on them. Once you start using the tool, it becomes very easy. It's actually quite easy to use. The problem that I run into is documentation. The documentation could be a little bit richer. Documentation has always been a little pet peeve for me with them."
"The solution does not export reports in a comprehensive format."
"While knowledge is a factor, both technical support and training need a significant overhaul."
"Adaptive DNS only supports AWS for network automation and cloud computing and would be improved if it also supported other options like Azure or Google Cloud."
"The scope of our use of this solution is limited to the DDI IPAM solution for Infoblox. This solution could be improved by offering multiple integrations with IPAM which could already exist but we aren't aware of them."
"From an IPAM standpoint, DHCP is an area that needs to be improved."
"The solution is not easy to use; the GUI and CLI are challenging to use, limiting end-user capability. We can't use Linux terminal features with Infoblox, as it struggles to detect and troubleshoot problems. We generally use troubleshooting tools like tcpdump in our network security area and we can use that in Infoblox with limited features."
"Their biggest problem is with the corporate side of the house as far as getting a support response or getting a sales team response isn't always as efficient as it should be and as it used to be."
"Infoblox IPAM could improve some of the features. The market is demanding for some features that are not there, but there is always a reason why it's not there. At the moment, the solution is rather complete for what it's used for. It can always extend to solve some other issues that are linked to it, but the solution itself is complete."
"The marketing of the solution could improve to give customers the awareness of the benefits."
"It is challenging to find training tutorials online."
"How you track IPs within a subnet and how all of that works was not intuitive to me. If I compare it to VitalQIP, I create a subnet, and it's a slash 24 size. It's very easy. I look, and here are my 254 IPs. I can then see if I have assigned a static, do I have a DHCP scope, and what's the name of the device. That's all there in front of me. The thing that I found frustrating with Infoblox was that it was not very intuitive."
BlueCat Integrity is ranked 2nd in IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools with 18 reviews while Infoblox IPAM is ranked 1st in IP Address Management (IPAM) Tools with 15 reviews. BlueCat Integrity is rated 8.8, while Infoblox IPAM is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of BlueCat Integrity writes "It improves our security by providing a single source of IP address usage and contact information". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Infoblox IPAM writes "Plug-and-play, stable, scalable, and lets you manage everything from the cloud; has professional technical support". BlueCat Integrity is most compared with Infoblox DDI, SolarWinds IPAM, Cloudflare DNS, Azure DNS and Amazon Route 53, whereas Infoblox IPAM is most compared with SolarWinds IPAM, BT Diamond IP, NetBox.dev, Micetro and Device42. See our BlueCat Integrity vs. Infoblox IPAM report.
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