Disrupting DDI @ Networking Field Day (In Tweets)

Last updated: September 15, 2025

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Key Takeaways
  • BlueCat positions Adaptive DNS and cloud-centric architectures as the future direction for disrupting traditional DDI implementations.
  • BlueCat unifies DNS, DHCP, and IPAM into a single source of truth to correlate DDI transactions with the IP entities behind them and extract operational insights.
  • The platform emphasizes comprehensive discovery that integrates with existing teams and tools, acknowledging that no automated scan alone can deliver fully accurate network data.
  • APIs and custom workflows are central to BlueCat’s role as an automation anchor, enabling network-wide orchestration driven by authoritative DDI data.
  • Manual IPAM processes and inconsistent records (e.g., PTR records) are identified as common causes of data inaccuracy, reinforcing the need for automation to maintain reliable DDI state.
  • BlueCat highlights that many enterprises still experience multi-week delays for simple DNS changes, indicating significant room for process and automation improvements in DDI operations.

As first-time Networking Field Day presenters, the BlueCat team was thrilled to discuss the future of DDI (hint: it’s cloudy, plus a 100% chance of disruption by Adaptive DNS) with a dozen network-savvy delegates.

 

Kicking It Off

The Story: Disrupting DDI

This writer’s boss took the stage first, with a synopsis of BlueCat’s history. Did you know we began selling DNS servers in 2001?

BlueCat Company Overview

Jim Williams dropped some serious truth in his talk.

The Routing Table’s Kevin Blackburn had the right idea, too.

 

Oh, and this happened.

 

Then, we got technical.

Adaptive DNS evangelist, Jason Davis, broke it down.

BlueCat Why Enterprise DNS is Disrupting DDI

We all but drew it out.

BlueCat Mapping the Enterprise DNS Ecosystem

Probably good that we didn’t draw it out. Apstra’s Carly Stoughton was miles ahead of us in that department…

We did what we do best.

 

#NFD19 Was Sweet But Keeping Up With Everyone Will Be Sweeter

 

Enormous thank you and ‘nice to meet you’ to everybody from NFD. You’re one in seven-point-seven billion.

Published on: November 13, 2018

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BlueCat provides core services and solutions that help our customers and their teams deliver change-ready networks. With BlueCat, organizations can build reliable, secure, and agile mission-critical networks that can support transformation initiatives such as cloud adoption and automation. BlueCat’s growing portfolio includes services and solutions for automated and unified DDI management, network security, multicloud management, and network observability and health.

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