Modernizing Critical Network Services: The Business Case for Enterprise-Grade DDI

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Ward Cobleigh is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Infoblox, where he leads messaging and go-to-market strategy for modern DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) solutions, including Infoblox Universal DDI™. A long-time network performance management (NPM) practitioner and continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) advocate, Ward brings prior experience in product-line leadership roles focused on network visibility, performance, and security use cases. Drawing on experience that spans development, sales, marketing, alliances, and product management, he is known for cutting through complexity to help teams see both the technical root cause and business impact of their network and security challenges. In this webinar, Ward brings that pragmatic, storyteller’s perspective to show how modern DDI underpins resilient, cloud‑first, and AI‑driven architectures.