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NIOS 8.5 meets these goals as no other DDI solution does can.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations adopting the hybrid cloud need freedom of choice regarding service offerings. Infoblox DDI is already integrated with three virtualization platforms: VMware, Microsoft Azure and Red Hat OpenStack. NIOS 8.5 adds Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor support to this portfolio, bringing a fourth degree of freedom for deploying workloads in a hybrid or private cloud.<\/p>\n<p>NIOS 8.5 adds a feature, the NIOS Grid Connector, that increases operational efficiency by linking DDI data to the BloxOne<sup style=\"font-size:50%;top:-1em;\">TM<\/sup> Cloud. Using the BloxOne<sup style=\"font-size:50%;top:-1em;\">TM<\/sup> Cloud Service Portal, the cloud-based interface for BloxOne<sup style=\"font-size:50%;top:-1em;\">TM<\/sup> DDI and BloxOne<sup style=\"font-size:50%;top:-1em;\">TM<\/sup> Threat Defense, an administrator can view DNS and IP data from Trinzic appliances residing on one or more Infoblox Grids.<\/p>\n<p>It is Infoblox\u2019 policy to invite customer guidance on product direction. As evidence of this, over 50 additional customer-driven enhancements are included in NIOS 8.5. 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