Building a Future-Proof Cloud Infrastructure A Unified Architecture for Network, Security, and Storage Services

<b>Prepare for the future of cloud infrastructure: Distributed Services Platforms</b><br> <br> By moving service modules closer to applications, Distributed Services (DS) Platforms will future-proof cloud architectures-improving performance, responsiveness, observability, and troubleshooting. Network pioneer Silvano Gai demonstrates DS Platforms' remarkable capabilities and guides you through implementing them in diverse hardware.<br> <br> Focusing on business benefits throughout, Gai shows how to provide essential shared services such as segment routing, NAT, firewall, micro-segmentation, load balancing, SSL/TLS termination, VPNs, RDMA, and storage-including storage compression and encryption. He also compares three leading hardware-based approaches-Sea of Processors, FPGAs, and ASICs-preparing you to evaluate solutions, ask the right questions, and plan strategies for your environment.<br> <br> <ul> <li>Understand the business drivers behind DS Platforms, and the value they offer</li> <li>See how modern network design and virtualization create a foundation for DS Platforms</li> <li>Achieve unprecedented scale through domain-specific hardware, standardized functionalities, and granular distribution</li> <li>Compare advantages and disadvantages of each leading hardware approach to DS Platforms</li> <li>Learn how P4 Domain-Specific Language and architecture enable high-performance, low-power ASICs that are data-plane-programmable at runtime</li> <li>Distribute cloud security services, including firewalls, encryption, key management, and VPNs</li> <li>Implement distributed storage and RDMA services in large-scale cloud networks</li> <li>Utilize Distributed Services Cards to offload networking processing from host CPUs</li> <li>Explore the newest DS Platform management architectures</li> </ul> <br> <b>Building a Future-Proof Cloud Architecture</b> is for network, cloud, application, and storage engineers, security experts, and every technology professional who wants to succeed with tomorrow's most advanced service architectures.<br> <br> <br>