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The Market Leading IP Address Management (IPAM) Solution

The Solution

In the past 10 years, organizations of all sizes have employed simplistic approaches and primitive tools to manage, monitor and administer IP addresses and core network DNS and DHCP services. These tools required constant manual intervention, and failed to provide audit and reporting capabilities needed to truly ‘manage’ the network. With growing volume, the complexity of hybrid server networks, and the addition of diverse IP devices and applications to the network, administrators needed a pro-active, automated approach to IP address management (IPAM) to control costs, maintain reliability, and create competitive advantage while ensuring overall network security and regulatory compliance.

The Challenge	How BlueCat Provides the Solution
Your IP infrastructure has outgrown spreadsheets and you need to control your ever expanding IP space.	Proteus can handle millions of IP addresses including overlapping address spaces and Proteus’ advanced modeling tools allow you to manipulate the address space to model your organization’s networks.
You need to centrally manage your DNS and DHCP servers.	You can manage heterogeneous environments across the enterprise from a single Proteus interface including BlueCat’s appliance-based servers, virtual servers, and Windows DNS and DHCP servers.
You need to be able to obtain an accurate and up-to-date picture of the state of your network at any time.	IP discovery and reconciliation keeps you current as devices are added and removed from the network.
You need to ensure that your critical systems are always available.	BlueCat offers a number of fault tolerant solutions including a replication system for your IPAM servers and a number of High Availability solutions to protect your DNS and DHCP services including Crossover High Availability (XHA), DNS Anycast, and DHCP failover.
You need to be able to organize and manage your data in a manner that make the most sense for your organization.	Object tagging allows you group your data so that it fits your business model. User-defined fields provide a meta-data system to objects within the system in virtually any way you can imagine.
To meet security and compliance requirements, you need a system that can keep track of all changes made within the system.	Proteus tracks all user transactions, user sessions, and system events to ensure that you have a complete record of everything that occurred within the system.
Wireless devices, VoIP handsets, and PDAs have are constantly moving in and out of different networks. You need a solution to track dynamic IP usage across the enterprise.	Proteus tracks dynamic DHCP leases and dynamic DNS data in real time providing you with the ability to aggregate information in the system for troubleshooting purposes.

Proteus™ from BlueCat Networks is the industry’s most complete IP Address Management (IPAM) platform. Purpose-built for scalability and high-availability, Proteus provides sophisticated utilities to rapidly design, deploy, configure and maintain distributed IP addresses. Proteus consolidates management of the entire IP infrastructure, while managing Adonis and Windows® DNS and DHCP servers from a centralized management tool.

Whitepapers

IPAM Intelligence

A number of factors are fuelling the demand for a new, intelligent approach to IP Address Management (IPAM). This paper describes these factors while highlighting deficiencies in the legacy IPAM solutions and manual management techniques commonly used today. This paper also introduces the 'Five Pillars of IPAM Intelligence'.

Realizing Secure Networks by Overcoming Complexity: The Proteus IP Address Management System

This paper introduces and describes the Proteus IP Address Management (IPAM) system. It describes the evolution of IP networks and discusses the issues arising from the increasing complexity of these systems. Proteus' approach to network security is explained, as well as its interoperability for network operations management.

Addressing a Growing Problem: An Explosion of IP Addresses

This independent research study discusses why organizations of all sizes rely on their IP infrastructure to run their businesses. Learn why the use of IPAM tools is essential for organizations to maintain control of their IP networks, manage the explosion of IP addressees, and reduce operational costs by maximizing IT resources through IPAM solutions.

Network Performance Management Report: The Network is Not Down

This whitepaper answers the question: What is IPAM? In what many are describing as 3rd generation IP Address Management (IPAM), this paper explains the urgency in moving away from spreadsheets, homegrown, and legacy solutions to intelligent IPAM solutions. Proteus, our IPAM solution platform addresses the enterprise's need for IP predictability, visibility, reporting, and auditing.

Solution / Technical Briefs

Proteus Multi-Core Architecture

Build, model and verify DNS, DHCP and IP configurations, then deploy them when you are ready — on your schedule. Its time to turn large IP networks into a simple and easy infrastructure to build and manage. Learn about Proteus’ Multi-Core architecture.

Proteus Object Tagging

Learn how Proteus’s Object Tagging applies meta data to any object on your network. No more spreadsheets, no more point-based systems. Build and manage networks that meet your needs and requirements instead of building a network to meet the needs of your present technology.

Why You Need Workflow

BlueCat's Proteus solution provides Workflow management, reducing administrative costs and maximizing IT resources while enhancing network governance.

Why You Need IP Reconciliation

Proteus' IP Reconciliation revolutionizes IPAM by automating tedious processes enabling network administrators to get an accurate perspective of network activity.

What's New in Proteus 3.0.2

Building on the unprecedented success of the Proteus family of products, BlueCat Networks introduces Proteus v3.0.2 – the latest generation IPAM Intelligence™ solution with enhancements designed to further simplify IP management for network administrators.

Brochures / Data Sheets

Appliance Based Solutions

This datasheet outlines the technical specifications of our Proteus and Adonis line of award winning IPAM, DNS, and DHCP appliances.

Enterprise IPAM Platform

As networks have grown, so has the complexity of managing IP infrastructure. There has been an explosion in the number of IP networks and connected devices, and networks that may have had a few hundred IP addresses a decade ago, can now run into the thousands, as more and more devices (VoIP phones, RFID devices, PDAs, etc.) connect to the network. Spreadsheets don’t cut it.

Introducing IPAM Intelligence™

BlueCat Networks recommends that an intelligent, end-to-end IP Address Management (IPAM) solution should offer organizations five key capabilities: integration, management, control, visibility and continuity of core network services. Learn more about each of the Five Pillars of IPAM Intelligence™ here.

Video Library / Webinars

Proteus - Proteus. IPAM Built Right.

In this video presentation you will learn the core features of Proteus and how Proteus commands and controls your IP network. You will learn about object tagging, multi-core architecture and the benefits of appliance-based technology.

IP Address Management (IPAM) for the Small Medium Enterprise

IP Address Management for Everyone. Learn about the new Proteus 2150 IP Address Management appliance and the Adonis 750 DNS/DHCP appliance.

Multi-Core Architecture

Learn about Proteus' Multi-Core Architecture and how DNS, DHCP and IP Addresses are managed. In this video you will learn how Multi-Core Architecture takes down barriers, bringing simplicity back to your network.

Proteus: Audit & Control for Regulatory Compliance

Reporting for regulatory compliance and auditing are tasks network administrators are mandated to produce at any given moment. Learn how Proteus from BlueCat Networks helps ensure you can show that your network meets regulatory and corporate compliance requirements on demand.

Proteus: Object Tagging

Learn how Proteus' Object Tagging applies meta data to any object anywhere on your network. No more spreadsheets, no more point-based systems. Build and manage networks that meet your needs and requirements instead of building a network to meet the needs of your present technology.

Proteus Built Right

Learn about the evolution of IPAM technology, current IPAM solutions, the business pr ocesses that Proteus enables, and future network considerations.

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