For a long time, it was okay to have a broken configuration management database (CMDB). I don\u2019t mean anyone was happy about it. I mean the cost of being wrong was something most organizations could absorb. A configuration item was stale, a record was orphaned, a cloud asset spun up and disappeared before anyone wrote it down, and the consequence was a slower change window or an awkward audit. Annoying, but survivable. Teams built their working lives around quietly compensating for data they knew they couldn\u2019t fully trust.<\/p>\n
That era is ending. When you put AI and AgenticOps on top of your infrastructure data, you stop being the safety net. The system acts on what it\u2019s told is true. If the underlying picture is incomplete, outdated or scattered across disconnected tools, AI won\u2019t catch the mistake the way a seasoned operator would. It makes the mistake faster, at greater scale and with more confidence. The data problems we\u2019ve lived with for years suddenly carry a much higher price.<\/p>\n
This is the shift behind the next step we\u2019re taking with Infoblox Universal Asset Insights\u2122. Universal Asset Insights helps organizations improve CMDB accuracy, drive more effective operations and build a trusted data foundation for AI and AgenticOps.<\/p>\n
Almost everyone has a discovery tool, yet few are confident in the picture it produces. Part of the reason is that discovery is harder than it looks: scan-based tools miss what they were never pointed at, and in our own customer data, organizations routinely find around 40 percent more assets than they thought they had<\/strong> once they move beyond a traditional scanner, according to an ESG report.1<\/sup><\/p>\n But even a complete, current picture isn\u2019t the finish line. The data also has to be trusted, validated and usable by the teams and systems that depend on it. In recent EMA research on AI-driven network operations, only 44 percent of organizations said they were confident that the quality of their network data could support AI-driven initiatives<\/strong>,2<\/sup> even as many of those same organizations actively invest in AI and agentic workflows. The harder work is making that intelligence authoritative and keeping it that way as your environment changes.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the analogy I keep coming back to.<\/p>\n Your car\u2019s GPS is only as good as its map. The routing engine can be brilliant, but if a road is missing, a street name is wrong or a new neighborhood was never added, the GPS will confidently send you the wrong way. The problem isn\u2019t the navigation system. It\u2019s the map data underneath it.<\/p>\n That\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening with AI inside a lot of organizations right now. The models are capable, but they\u2019re reasoning over a map of the infrastructure that\u2019s full of gaps, duplicates and stale records. Feed an agent a bad map and it won\u2019t hesitate\u2014it will just be wrong with conviction. Trustworthy data is the prerequisite for everything you want to do with AI on top of your infrastructure.<\/p>\n Universal Asset Insights<\/strong><\/a> delivers a complete visibility solution built on three pillars\u2014Discovery, Inventory and Insights\u2014all rooted in the DNS and DHCP signals that every connected asset depends on. We are adding new capabilities to build a trusted data foundation for AI, AgenticOps, CMDB accuracy and more effective operations.<\/p>\n Discovery: Find every asset.<\/strong> Universal Asset Insights continuously discovers assets across cloud, on-premises, IoT\/OT, remote and unmanaged environments. Because our DNS and DHCP foundation sees virtually everything operational, we surface the shadow IT, unmanaged devices and short-lived cloud assets that scanners routinely miss. This release widens that net considerably:<\/p>\n Inventory: Know what each asset is.<\/strong> Discovery alone isn\u2019t enough. Universal Asset Insights correlates, deduplicates, enriches and continuously validates data across those sources into a single, authoritative inventory. Two new capabilities extend that inventory out to the systems that depend on it: <\/p>\n Insights: Drive operational outcomes.<\/strong> Visibility only matters when teams can act on it, and each team needs something different: NetOps tracks IP conflicts and zombie assets, SecOps wants richer asset context and IT and compliance need continuous CMDB validation. Two new capabilities make that intelligence easier to reach: <\/p>\n So how do you put that trusted data to work in your own agentic workflows? It comes down to where you\u2019re building. We support both paths:<\/p>\n These new capabilities will be generally available on a rolling basis beginning in July 2026, with additional enhancements through late August 2026. The Infoblox MCP Server integration is available to early access customers now. If you\u2019re already a customer, your account team can show you what\u2019s new. If you\u2019re not, start a trial<\/strong><\/a> and point Universal Asset Insights at your own environment. You\u2019ll likely find more than you expected.<\/p>\n It used to be okay to have a broken CMDB. In the age of AI, it isn\u2019t. The teams that get ahead won\u2019t be the ones with the most ambitious AI plans. They\u2019ll be the ones whose AI is working from infrastructure data they can actually trust.<\/p>\nThink of It Like Your GPS<\/h3>\n
Infoblox Universal Asset Insights: Discovery + Inventory + Insights<\/h3>\n
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