Report Date: March 2011 DDI is an independent niche market. This is good news for buyers of DDI solutions, because the decision can be made independently of other technology purchases. Its challenging for vendors, because efforts to grow through technology partnerships have largely fallen flat. While several DDI vendors have established technology partnerships with vendors outside the DDI market, none can be categorized as market-changing moves. The most aggressive move was made by Infoblox, with its acquisition of network configuration and change management (NCCM) vendor Netcordia in May 2010. Infoblox positioned the move as a response to the virtualization trend, since virtualization creates provisioning challenges (related to the speed and automation of provisioning IP addresses). Its goal is to integrate NCCM and DDI technologies to respond to the operational challenges of virtualization. Garner is beginning to hear this requirement from some clients with large-scale virtualized server environments (for example, private cloud), but it is still far from a mainstream requirement. Another vendor, BlueCat Networks, has integrated its DDI solution with HPs configuration management database (CMDB) offering. Here again, integrating DDI and CMDB technologies is not a mainstream requirement. Alcatel-Lucent has integrated its VitalQIP solution with InfoExpress network access control (NAC) product, although other NAC and DDI partnerships have met with limited success. These examples underscore the independent nature of the DDI market,
Mentions: Alcatel-Lucent, BlueCat Networks, BT Diamond, EfficientIP, Infoblox, Men & Mice, Nixu Software
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