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Men&Mice Breaks New DDI Ground with xDNS Redundancy and Multi-Cloud IPAM

Men&Mice further solidifies our position as the commercial DDI solution best equipped to help large enterprises capitalize on legacy infrastructure.

Jun 29th, 2017

The joke goes: “How did God create the universe in seven days? No legacy infrastructure.”

Funny (or not) as that may be, how to make the most of legacy infrastructure in the age of accelerating technological disruption and rapid cloud services adoption, is the harsh reality most enterprises face today.

Well-known for its fast, reliable and efficient performance on large enterprise networks, the Men&Mice Suite already has a reputation as the go-to, enterprise-class, software overlay DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management (DDI) solution. With the release of Version 8.2 of the Suite, Men&Mice further solidifies our position as the commercial DDI solution best equipped to help large enterprises capitalize on legacy infrastructure, while adopting cloud services to advance business agility and scalability.

The Men&Mice Suite – IP wherever you are

Almost three decades of expert innovation in DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management has given Men&Mice unique insight and expertise into creating solutions that confidently mitigate the shocks of technological disruption.

Built as an enterprise-grade, back-end agnostic solution and deployed on top of DNS and DHCP infrastructure, the Men&Mice DDI Suite pulls together critical network data from wherever it is kept, on-premises, in the cloud, hybrid cloud or multi-cloud, and turns a potential hot mess into a comprehensive overview, accessed and controlled from a single pane of glass.

The Men&Mice Suite provides consistent administrative controls on heterogeneous networks, with unparalleled support for Windows DNS and DHCP, BIND, Unbound, PowerDNS, ISC DHCP, Kea DHCP, Cisco IOS, OpenStack and Azure DNS and Amazon Route 53.

Designed to integrate seamlessly with the VMware Orchestrator framework, the Men&Mice Suite VMware vRealize Orchestrator plug-in allows for fast and efficient provisioning of virtual machines.

The first DDI solution to fully integrate with Microsoft Active Directory (AD), the Men&Mice Suite incorporates management of users and groups through AD, while granting access rights and building up roles and responsibilities through the Men&Mice Suite, ensuring advanced and secure granular role-based access management.

Offering you the flexibility to control your network as it suits you best, the Men&Mice Suite provides three powerful interfaces: the Men&Mice management console, the Men&Mice web interface, and, the strong and consistent Men&Mice API, communicating in SOAP, JSON-RPC and REST. The Men&Mice API, especially popular with our customers, provides the robust abstraction tools necessary to build and extend automation.

New in Men&Mice Suite Version 8.2

From Version 8.2, the Men&Mice Suite’s back-end agnostic capabilities are extended to include advanced, multi-cloud IP Address Management and integrated support for external DNS service providers.

Building on the flexibility of its architecture, Men&Mice Suite Version 8.2 consolidates on-premises and cloud networks in one view and point of access through support for IPAM in Azure and AWS, and by adding support for DNS service providers NS1 and Dyn to existing Men&Mice support for Azure DNS and Amazon Route 53.

Unique on the DDI market, and new in Version 8.2, the Men&Mice xDNS redundancy feature enables multi-platform DNS redundancy for ultimate network high availability, and successful mitigation of the fallout from DDoS attacks and other DNS failures.

xDNS redundancy provides the abstraction level necessary to replicate and synchronize critical DNS zones across multiple DNS service provider platforms, eliminating the possibility of a single point of failure resulting from dependency on one external DNS service provider.

Men&Mice - Changing the way the world sees networks

As IT matures into a key element for easily scalable business development and product delivery, and ultimately a driver of business growth, the need for high network availability, reliability and performance escalates.

For Magnus Bjornsson, Men&Mice CEO, delivering DDI products that boost business performance by bridging the gap between on-premises, cloud, hybrid cloud and multi-cloud network environments, is a challenge happily accepted. “We live in a world that’s getting more complicated by the minute. Cloud vendors are continuously bringing powerful new services online and enterprises are wrestling with how and when to best utilize them. Men&Mice Suite Version 8.2 is a landmark release, tackling this great challenge with innovative new features. Consolidating hybrid and multi-cloud IP Address Management in a single view and bolstering DNS availability across service provider platforms with xDNS redundancy, are great steps towards strategically improving the most critical of a company’s IT assets – its network. The Men&Mice Suite, used to run some of the largest corporate networks on the planet, is designed to give you the freedom and flexibility to use the back-end platform you want, to build the network you need.”

Looking for more?

Follow these links for more information on Men&Mice xDNS redundancy feature, or multi-cloud IP Address Management.

To see Men&Mice xDNS redundancy in action, check out the xDNS Redundancy webinar, jointly presented by Men&Mice and NS1.

Curious about how the Men&Mice Suite can benefit your network? Get in touch with one of our Men&Mice Sales Engineers, or get your free Version 8.2 license for a complimentary 30-day trial experience.