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BlueCat acquires Men&Mice
May 2023 by Marc Jacob
BlueCat Networks, a provider of mission-critical network and cloud infrastructure software for reliable and secure DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (collectively known as DDI), announced that it has acquired Men&Mice, which provides network management solutions. Regulators approved the deal. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Men&Mice’s industry-recognized IP address management (IPAM) and orchestration solution, Micetro, strengthens BlueCat’s position as a DDI industry leader and further extends BlueCat’s mid-market offerings. BlueCat’s enhanced portfolio addresses the complex requirements of multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises environments, which are central to transformation strategies across mid-market and enterprise organizations.
Global demand for DDI management, which provides the core services that direct traffic and enable communication across the network, has increased. A 2022 Future Marketing Insights report projected that the global DDI market would grow by 17% per year, reaching almost $10 billion (USD) by 2032. Digital transformation initiatives are driving this demand as enterprises shift applications to the cloud and deploy infrastructure as code.
As organizations evolve, many use an IPAM solution that also overlays disparate DNS and DHCP solutions to gain visibility, management, and control of their on-premises and cloud environments. Research in 2022 from Enterprise Management Associates revealed that a significant percentage of organizations use an overlay strategy to manage DNS and DHCP from the IPAM environment.
