Hosted by Afilias, Managed DNS Service fully Integrates DNS, DHCP and centralized IPAM to improve system reliability, scalability, security and manageability while decreasing overall costs

Dubai - October 20th, 2010: BlueCat Networks, the IPAM Intelligence™ company today announced the launch of the Proteus Cloud Services for the Middle East market at GITEX. Proteus Cloud Services provides complete control and central management of external DNS as well as enabling organizations to extend services to also manage internal DNS and DHCP from the same single, highly-secure web-based user interface.  By fully integrating DNS (including DNSSEC), DHCP and centralized IPAM, Proteus Cloud Services makes it simple for organizations to significantly streamline system management and drastically decrease overall costs.

The first Managed DNS Service hosted by Afilias, a global provider of internet infrastructure services that supports 15 top-level domains (TLDs), including .INFO and .ORG, Proteus Cloud Services provides organizations with the option to have IPAM hosted in the Cloud - eliminating the need to build and maintain a physical IPAM solution on site to make it easier and more cost effective than ever for organizations to leverage BlueCat Networks' market-leading IPAM expertise and technology.

"Our customers have asked for a fully-integrated hosted solution that provides reliability and security coupled with real-world central management at a cost-effective price," said Dean Bell, Vice President - Middle East and Asia Pacific at BlueCat Networks.  "Afilias' globally-distributed network is relied on by nearly ten percent of domains worldwide, and has experienced zero downtime in over three years."

Afilias' globally-distributed anycast network utilizes multiple DNS meshes to ensure that Proteus Cloud Services provides customers with a highly-reliable, easily-scalable and extremely-secure external DNS service.  Afilias' state-of-the-art managed DNS network services ensure security and resiliency through a diverse any-cast architecture.  Its multi-layered, tiered design uses multiple hardware and software solutions, multiple bandwidth providers, and is dispersed across numerous geographic locations to ensure highly-reliable DNS service with no single points of failure.

By fully integrating market-leading centralized IPAM capabilities from BlueCat networks - such as DNSSEC support for signed TLDs, including .gov, and complete IPv6 support for AAAA records - with Afilias' highly-reliable DNS infrastructure, Proteus Cloud Services radically improves network reliability and security, greatly simplifies network management and significantly reduces overall costs - as well as eliminating the need for customers to work with more than one vendor.

Proteus Cloud Services will be made available through BlueCat Networks' channel partners in the Middle East. For full details, please contact BlueCat Networks at apac.sales@bluecatnetworks.com

For more information on Proteus Cloud Services, visit http://www.bluecatnetworks.com/proteuscs

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About Afilias
Afilias is a global provider of Internet infrastructure services that connect people to their data. Afilias' reliable, secure, scalable, and globally available technology supports a wide range of applications including Internet domain registry services, Managed DNS, and services in the RFID and supply chain market with its Afilias Discovery Services. For more information on Afilias please visit http://www.afilias.info/.

About BlueCat Networks
BlueCat Networks is the Leader in IP Address Management (IPAM) and DNS (DNSSEC)/DHCP Core Services, including the centralized management of Microsoft Windows® DNS/DHCP services. Available in, software (VMware), hardware (appliance) and Managed Service (Proteus Cloud Services) formats, With the exponential growth in IP addresses, BlueCat Networks solves critical network management issues by centrally managing, controlling and auditing IPv4, IPv6, DNS and DNSSEC networks. For additional information please visit http://www.bluecatnetworks.com.

Proteus, Adonis, IPAM Intelligence, IPAM for Everyone and BlueCat Networks are trademarks of BlueCat Networks, Inc. and/or BlueCat Networks (USA) Inc.  Other products mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

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