Vendor lineage
BlueCat Networks - DDI, from the operations side
DNS, DHCP and address management sold as network operations rather than as infrastructure.
BlueCat works the same DDI ground as Infoblox - DNS, DHCP and IP address management unified - and frames it as network operations: the argument that whoever holds the address records holds the map of the network.
The competitive position between DDI vendors is less about protocol features, which are standardised, than about what the system does with the record once it holds it: integration with cloud providers, automation interfaces, and the reporting that turns an address database into an inventory.
That is a useful thing to know before evaluating one, because a feature comparison of DNS and DHCP implementations will find little to separate them.
It was launched in 2001 by two brothers, Richard and Michael Hyatt, with the stated aim of making network appliances that were simple, secure and affordable. That is a modest ambition for a category which, at the time, was neither.
- BlueCat Networks - company site (network operations, DDI)
Cited to the company's own site: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlueCat_Networks returns 404, so no third-party article was available.
- BlueCat was launched in 2001 by two brothers, Richard and Michael Hyatt, to provide simple, secure and affordable network appliances