Azure DNS vs. Infoblox DDI (BloxOne)

Using Azure DNS, you can easily and quickly deploy and manage your domain DNS. It's been an excellent introduction to our web services requirements. It offers all services on a single platform and integrates with other applications. It not only offers DNS services for websites but also for your applications.

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Infoblox DDI is an excellent alternative for Microsoft DHCP. It is a much more robust solution. It can also do DNS for your entire environment. However, if you are an AD environment, you will still need Microsoft DNS servers. The IPAM functionality is excellent for keeping track of your IP addresses.

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• User interface is easy to use
• Detects ISP change fast
• Easy purchase - both domain and DNS management can be bought from the same portal
• Availability of advanced management
• Fast and Reliable

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• It creates and manages DHCP scopes very well.
• It identifies scope usage at a glance very well.
• It's very reliable and requires almost no maintenance to keep up and running.

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• The record set search can improve.
• Azure DNS comes at an extra cost, Need to decrease some cost.
• Better dashboard needed with all the details availability.

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• Support
• UI/UX
• Reports

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It's generally easy to navigate through all of the menus. It's also very powerful in that there are many options available for configuration, allowing one to take advantage of IP address management tools. This tool is definitely a leader in the space, and provided you have the budget, is a very good investment. The team that uses it will appreciate the tool.

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Support has always been responsive and knowledgeable.

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As we have all our infrastructure on Azure it was much more feasible for us to use Azure DNS.

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Infoblox DDI supports services across hybrid platforms and the capability to switch from appliances to VMs has added to the mobility of the applications. Setting up two grids(Internal and external) helps manage and segment the network in scopes of DNS and DHCP and apply firewall security policies over our external caching grid members.

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• Billing in the same invoice. positive point
• DNSSEC not yet included. negative impact for high transaction commerce websites
• DNS SSL encryption not yet included. negative impact for high transaction pay wallet websites
• Not required 3rd party DNS services. positive impact
• Not required additional resource to manage these services. positive impact

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• It has lowered the administrative burden on the network team.
• It has allowed us to provide IP address reports and given us another source for asset management validation.
• It reduces risk by centrally managing IP networks.

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