Is there a reason that Infoblox was not included? Is it because it's not a true IPAM as I have heard.
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RE: Tools cure IP address-management headaches
I’m surprised that the emphasis of the test was on importing data (40% of the score), which is performed once with each vendor’s assistance. The real management challenge occurs after the data import, when administrators are left to perform the day-to-day tasks of managing subnets, IP address assignments and DHCP and DNS server configurations. This was not really discussed in the review. It wasn’t clear what the “feature” category entailed. How about testing what’s really challenging IP administrators like IP address auditing, reporting, discovery, reclaim, monitoring, and administrator control granularity? Security upgrades are also important and all vendors perform it nearly similarly, though this wasn’t clear from the report.
It appears we have a
It appears we have a difference in philosophy of how to value the relative importance of the review categories. Here is the reasoning I used to justify my decisions regarding the score weights.
If importing data doesn't work as it should or is painful, making changes to the data is less important. If exporting data to services doesn't work or is painful, making changes to the data is less important. Therefore, I weighted the import/export scores the highest.
Why no Infoblox
Infoblox was invited to be in the review, but declined to participate. According to the company's PR representative, they are near the release of a new version and didn't want to promote an old version or review a new version before it's released.