Infoblox is all set to acquire Kentik, a leading network intelligence and observability platform. Kentik provides real-time visibility across networks, applications and cloud environments, helping organizations optimize performance and accelerate AI-driven network operations. This planned acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and closing conditions.
As organizations face growing complexity across networks, cloud environments, applications, AI workloads and digital services, they require deeper visibility, actionable intelligence and greater operational control. Further, with AI taking on greater responsibility, the quality and completeness of the data it acts on has become mission critical. The planned acquisition of Kentik will help customers understand what is happening across their infrastructure continuously and identify and prioritize issues more efficiently, while also solidifying data foundations for AI tools. This accelerates the company’s vision for an infrastructure-centric, AI-driven security and networking platform.
“Infoblox sits at a unique intersection. Every device, application and cloud workload on a customer’s network runs through our technology, generating unparalleled context. With Kentik, we expand and enrich that context, allowing us to provide networking, cloud and security teams the real-time hybrid cloud intelligence they need to act with confidence,” said Scott Harrell, chief executive officer, Infoblox. “Our customers need robust data and insights for their agentic operations so they can provide the increasing levels of resiliency, performance and security their businesses demand. Together with Kentik, we’re able to deliver that.”
Together, the combined platform will allow customers to have a more holistic, real-time view of everything that is happening on the network and in the cloud. Infoblox knows what’s on the network and why it should be trusted; Kentik knows how traffic moves across it and whether it’s performing. The result is a pioneering infrastructure-centric network and security intelligence platform: one place where network identity, DNS context, real-time traffic behavior and AI-guided workflows converge.
“Kentik’s vision has been to help organizations operate increasingly complex networks with intelligence rather than intuition, and Infoblox is the trusted source of truth and identity that provides the foundation for the infrastructure our customers depend on every day,” said Avi Freedman, chief executive officer, Kentik. “Combining that authoritative infrastructure context with Kentik’s network intelligence platform creates powerful new opportunities to automate operations, accelerate troubleshooting, strengthen security and support the velocity of networking today.”
