Building a FutureProof Cloud Infrastructure: A Unified Architecture for Network, Security, and Storage Services

Prepare for the future of cloud infrastructure: Distributed Services PlatformsBy moving service modules closer to applications, Distributed Services (DS) Platforms will futureproof cloud architecturesimproving 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, microsegmentation, load balancing, SSL/TLS termination, VPNs, RDMA, and storageincluding storage compression and encryption. He also compares three leading hardwarebased approachesSea of Processors, FPGAs, and ASICspreparing you to evaluate solutions, ask the right questions, and plan strategies for your environment.Understand the business drivers behind DS Platforms, and the value they offer See how modern network design and virtualization create a foundation for DS Platforms Achieve unprecedented scale through domainspecific hardware, standardized functionalities, and granular distribution Compare advantages and disadvantages of each leading hardware approach to DS Platforms Learn how P4 DomainSpecific Language and architecture enable highperformance, lowpower ASICs that are dataplaneprogrammable at runtime Distribute cloud security services, including firewalls, encryption, key management, and VPNs Implement distributed storage and RDMA services in largescale cloud networks Utilize Distributed Services Cards to offload networking processing from host CPUs Explore the newest DS Platform management architecturesBuilding a FutureProof Cloud Architecture is for network, cloud, application, and storage engineers, security experts, and every technology professional who wants to succeed with tomorrows most advanced service architectures.