Compare the Top DDI Management Platforms for Startups as of December 2025

What are DDI Management Platforms for Startups?

DDI (DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management) management platforms are designed to streamline the administration of network services such as domain name system (DNS), dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), and IP address allocation. This software helps network administrators manage IP address spaces efficiently, automate IP address assignment, and ensure seamless DNS and DHCP operations across large networks. By centralizing control, DDI software reduces the risk of errors, improves network visibility, and enhances overall network security. It also enables the quick detection of issues, automated conflict resolution, and integration with other network management tools. DDI management solutions are critical for organizations seeking to optimize their IT infrastructure and improve scalability, especially in complex, growing environments. Compare and read user reviews of the best DDI Management platforms for Startups currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    SolarWinds Observability SaaS
    SaaS-delivered Observability built to extend visibility across cloud-native, on-prem, and hybrid technology stacks. SolarWinds Observability SaaS delivers unified and comprehensive visibility for cloud-native, on-premises, and hybrid custom and commercial applications to help ensure optimal service levels and user satisfaction with key business services. For internally written and commercial applications. Unified code-level troubleshooting with transaction tracing, code-profiling, and exception tracking combined with end user experience insights through synthetic and real user monitoring. Deep database performance monitoring. Increase system performance, team efficiency, and infrastructure cost savings by offering full visibility into open-source databases including MySQL®, PostgreSQL®, MongoDB®, Azure® SQL, Amazon Aurora®, and Redis®.
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    TCPWave

    TCPWave

    TCPWave

    DDI automation to help enterprises and service providers for rapid roll out of services, avoid outages and simplified transition to cloud transformation journey. Scalable DDI architecture to meet surge, cloud and automation needs. Superior performance with better TCO ensures enterprises to scale the architecture horizontally and vertically. Defend ransomware, phishing, botnet attacks, malware and spyware from your mission critical networks, using our superior fault prevention solution and escape security breaches. TCPWave delivers speed and security to meet the market demands for secure networks. TCPWave is somewhat different from the usual IPAM software which makes it highly scalable and adaptable to changes. Retrofitting today's DevOps and CloudOps requirements into a two-decades-old legacy solution is not a prudent option. A superior 1500+ REST API based TCPWave DDI is designed for today's enterprises, out of the box.
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    BlueCat Micetro
    BlueCat Micetro is a centralized orchestration platform that unifies DNS, DHCP, and IP address management into a single interface for streamlined network operations. It enables organizations to manage Microsoft DNS and DHCP environments while maintaining full visibility and control across hybrid, multicloud, and branch networks. With fast deployment, API-driven automation, and proactive alerting, Micetro simplifies complex DDI workflows and improves operational efficiency. The platform provides granular access controls, visual planning tools, and enterprise-grade IPAM to support secure, scalable network management. It has earned a Strong Value rating from Enterprise Management Associates for delivering low-overhead, flexible DDI management across diverse infrastructures. By consolidating tools and enhancing automation, Micetro helps teams modernize their network environments with greater speed and confidence.
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    SolarWinds IP Address Manager
    Utilize IPAM’s capacity reporting to track subnet utilization and assist with capacity planning. Take advantage of the customizable subnet capacity template for fast, flexible, and centralized reporting. The Subnet Allocation Wizard in IPAM is built to categorize your IP address space into subnets perfectly sized for your network. IPAM’s drag-and-drop interface can create groups containing any number of other groups, supernets, subnets, and individual IP addresses with the added ability to create and use your own custom fields. vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) can be leveraged by vRealize Automation (vRA) and vCenter to automate IP address management tasks. Obtain and reserve unique IP address(es) and release automatically during appropriate machine lifecycle. Using IPAM, you can find abandoned addresses from both static and DHCP systems—just use IPAM’s auto-updated logs to easily identify which addresses have been abandoned and reclaim them.
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    SOLIDserver DDI

    SOLIDserver DDI

    EfficientIP

    The SOLIDserver™ DDI suite is designed to deliver highly scalable, secure and robust virtual and hardware appliances for critical DNS-DHCP-IPAM services. It provides vital benefits for the agility, reliability, and security of your network infrastructure. SOLIDserver is the cornerstone of DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management (DDI) projects for datacenter automation, internet DNS, LAN infrastructures, cloud computing, digital transformation and any IT organization dealing with the challenges of a dynamic and secure infrastructure. DDI helps software defined networking (SDN) become fully integrated to the whole IT ecosystem, from orchestration of application deployment to IT Service Management (ITSM) process control. EfficientIP DDI appliances strengthen your core network foundations to support your business imperatives to improve business continuity and decrease operating costs with smart automation.
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    Infoblox DDI
    Network landscapes are rapidly evolving, driven by trends in hybrid and multi-cloud migration, security, SDN, NFV, IPv6 adoption and the Internet of Things (IoT). Against this backdrop of soaring network complexity, all organizations today require specialized solutions that simplify and optimize what it takes to execute DNS, DHCP and IP address management, the critical network services collectively known as DDI that make all network interactions possible. Infoblox applications and appliances are uniquely able to support all your DDI demands—today and down the road. Need to centralize control of advanced DDI services on-site while seamlessly integrating with cloud and virtualization platforms? We’ve got you covered. Want to radically improve networking in remote and branch locations by managing DDI in the cloud? Check. Want to see all network assets across all infrastructure in one place? You got it. It’s DDI your way.
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    BloxOne Threat Defense
    BloxOne Threat Defense maximizes brand protection by working with your existing defenses to protect your network and automatically extend security to your digital imperatives, including SD-WAN, IoT and the cloud. It powers security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) solutions, slashes the time to investigate and remediate cyberthreats, optimizes the performance of the entire security ecosystem and reduces the total cost of enterprise threat defense. The solution turns the core network services you rely on to run your business into your most valuable security assets. These services, which include DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI), play a central role in all IP-based communications. With Infoblox, they become the foundational common denominator that enables your entire security stack to work in unison and at Internet scale to detect and anticipate threats sooner and stop them faster.
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    BloxOne DDI

    BloxOne DDI

    Infoblox

    BloxOne DDI is the industry’s first cloud-managed solution that enables you to centrally control and automate DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI) for hybrid and multi-cloud networks. Built on the cloud-native BloxOne® Platform and available as a SaaS service, BloxOne DDI eliminates the complexity, bottlenecks and scalability limitations of traditional DDI implementations. Move core network services from the data center to the cloud. Gain multi-cloud visibility and unified management. Streamline network service provisioning across all locations. Orchestrate and automate DNS, DHCP and IP address provisioning across distributed locations from the cloud. Provide direct connectivity to the Internet and cloud-based apps to all users with local DNS resolution. Eliminate manual intervention and automate the provisioning of network services that DevOps services need to move at cloud speed.
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    Diamond IP

    Diamond IP

    Cygna Labs

    Automate critical DDI functions for streamlined agile IT services delivery Flexible, scalable, extensible IP address management products and managed services. Diamond IP is our IP address management (IPAM) solution which streamlines management of your entire IPv4 and IPv6 address lifecycle across your premises, branch remote, private and public cloud domains. We offer software, hardware and virtual appliance (private and public) products, as well as managed IPAM services. We facilitate multi-cloud IPAM with virtual appliances for AWS, Azure, Oracle VM, VMware, Hyper-V and others. And our cloud automation appliance dynamically automates the assignment and tracking of private and public cloud instance IP addresses and DNS names. Our DNS security products supplement your defense in depth security strategy at the DNS layer. We serve global multinational organizations around the world with our security, cloud and networking services.
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    VitalQIP

    VitalQIP

    Cygna Labs

    VitalQIP is the industry’s proven, open and scalable DDI solution (domain name system (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and IP address management (IPAM)). VitalQIP removes the complexity associated with IPAM while reducing the costs of managing IP addresses within the enterprise. With industry-proven reliability, VitalQIP allows the enterprise to manage hundreds of DNS and DHCP servers supporting millions of IP addresses. VitalQIP also provides IPv6 support and makes use of automation for mission critical DNS and DHCP services. Software approach for cloud integration available on Redhat Enterprise Linux,or Microsoft Windows. Optional security hardened hardware or virtualized appliances. Full set of APIs for ecosystem partners and plug-ins for cloud platform automation. Portal for self-service and BYOD support. Built-in support for applications and monitoring packages.
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    FusionLayer

    FusionLayer

    FusionLayer

    FusionLayer Infinity is the world's first Software-Defined IP Address Management (SD-IPAM) designed to replace the traditional IPAM tools and spreadsheets. By organizing all network data into a single authoritative system, it allows our customers to automate their networks while providing real-time visibility to their network engineers. FusionLayer NameSurfer is a robust DNS management solution designed for telecom companies and managed service providers managing tens or even hundreds of thousands of zones in their authoritative DNS. Run by 35% of the world's Top-20 telecom companies, NameSurfer comes with many process automations and intuitive automations for authoritative DNS.
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    Infoblox Cloud Network Automation
    Chances are, your use of private, hybrid and multi-cloud architectures is becoming critical to business agility and efficiency. And yet the complexity of managing essential network services such as DNS can prevent you from realizing the full promise of the cloud. Automation at the network layer is fundamental to your success. Infoblox dramatically shortens the time needed for provisioning and deprovisioning critical network services in cloud and virtualized environments. Infoblox can deliver local, redundant (highly available) DDI services for every cloud instance at every location. Through the Cloud Platform Appliance flexible deployment architecture, critical network services can be deployed in a variety of ways to suit your unique requirements. In addition to the massive manual labor savings gained through task automation, Infoblox provides one central management GUI for all cloud network automation tasks, regardless of the number, size and geographical location of the clouds.
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    BlueCat Integrity
    BlueCat Integrity is a unified DDI platform that consolidates DNS, DHCP, and IP address management into a single source of truth for modern network environments. It enables organizations to streamline operations, eliminate silos, and gain real-time visibility across on-prem, hybrid, and multicloud infrastructures. By automating complex DDI workflows, Integrity accelerates application deployment and supports the creation of self-healing, adaptive networks. The platform also empowers teams to investigate IP space consumption, reduce waste, and make faster, data-driven decisions. With integrated tools such as Cloud Discovery & Visibility and LiveAssurance, users can identify risks, prevent downtime, and improve network performance proactively. As a recognized Value Leader in the DDI space, BlueCat Integrity helps enterprises modernize their network foundation with automation, scalability, and resilient architecture.
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    BlueCat Gateway
    BlueCat Gateway is a Python-based automation platform that extends the Integrity ecosystem with powerful tools for streamlining DNS, DHCP, and IPAM workflows. It enables organizations to integrate third-party systems like ServiceNow and Terraform, making end-to-end automated provisioning fast, consistent, and compliant. With its intuitive development environment, Gateway lets teams create custom plugins, workflows, and self-service forms that reduce manual workload and enforce network policies. The platform supports continuous discovery, cross-system synchronization, and deeper visibility into DNS and IP resources. Users can standardize DDI processes through templated provisioning and zero-touch automation that reduces repetitive configuration tasks. By centralizing automation and customization in one place, Gateway helps teams iterate quickly while maintaining security, accuracy, and operational control.
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    ManageEngine DDI Central
    ManageEngine DDI Central is designed to streamline network management for enterprises, offering a unified platform for DNS, DHCP, and IPAM. DDI Central as an overlay, discovers and integrates data across both on-premises as well as remote DNS-DHCP clusters. Enterprises gain holistic visibility and control of their network infrastructure, including remote branch offices. With smart automation features, real-time analytics, and advanced security protocols, DDI Central enhances operational efficiency, visibility, and network security, all from a single console. Features: Flexible internal and external DNS and DHCP cluster management Streamlined DNS server and zone management Automated DHCP scope management Targeted IP configurations with DHCP fingerprinting Secure dynamic DNS (DDNS) management DNS aging and scavenging DNS security management Domain traffic surveillance IP lease history insights IP-DNS correlations and IP-MAC identity mapping Built-in failover & auditing
    Starting Price: $799/year
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    Cisco Prime Network Registrar
    Cisco Prime Network Registrar is a scalable, high-performance, extensible solution that provides services for Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name System (DNS) acting as an authoritative DNS, and caching DNS. It offers significant acceleration of DNS query throughput by assigning over 20,000 DHCP leases per second and supporting over 130 million devices across multiple servers in a single customer deployment. The system manages server load by redistributing DHCP lease renewals for better utilization across clusters, using a variety of deployment options such as image download, Docker container, VM OVA, QCOW2, or pre-loaded appliance. To ensure reliability, it employs multiple levels of redundancy with DHCPv4 and DHCPv6 safe failover and supports high-availability DNS (HA-DNS). Custom dashboards report the status and trends of DHCP and DNS operations. The solution is extensible, featuring a powerful extensions interface and REST APIs.
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    BlueCat Edge
    BlueCat Edge is an advanced DNS solution that enhances traditional DDI infrastructure with powerful IP forwarding, discovery, resolution, and security capabilities designed for modern multicloud environments. It deploys lightweight service points across on-prem, virtual, and cloud environments to apply intelligent forwarding rules and enforce security policies at the edge of the network. Edge improves visibility by capturing internal and external DNS queries from any user or branch, creating a unified view of DNS behavior across global environments. For networking teams, the platform simplifies complex resolution pathways and uses Intelligent Forwarding to automatically route queries to the optimal destination. For cloud environments, Edge integrates with BlueCat Integrity and cloud-native DNS providers to resolve services reliably across multicloud footprints.
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