Prepare for the future of cloud infrastructure: Distributed Services
Platforms
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.
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.
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Understand the business drivers behind DS Platforms, and the value
they offer
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See how modern network design and virtualization create a foundation
for DS Platforms
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Achieve unprecedented scale through domain-specific hardware,
standardized functionalities, and granular distribution
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Compare advantages and disadvantages of each leading hardware approach
to DS Platforms
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Learn how P4 Domain-Specific Language and architecture enable
high-performance, low-power ASICs that are data-plane-programmable at
runtime
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Distribute cloud security services, including firewalls, encryption,
key management, and VPNs
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Implement distributed storage and RDMA services in large-scale cloud
networks
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Utilize Distributed Services Cards to offload networking processing
from host CPUs
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Explore the newest DS Platform management architectures
Building a Future-Proof Cloud Architecture 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.
