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

Gai, Silvano

商品描述

Cloud architectures are leading to radical changes in data center organization, with multi-tenancy becoming ubiquitous in public, private, and hybrid clouds. To future-proof evolving cloud-based infrastructures, network architects are turning to Distributed Services Platforms.
In Building a Future-proof Cloud Infrastructure , network pioneer Silvano Gai shows how to implement Distributed Services Platforms with multiple service modules in diverse hardware. 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 demonstrates how distributing service modules near applications enables very high performance, low latency, low jitter, deep observability, and rapid troubleshooting, combining the performance benefits of hardware with the exceptional flexibility of programmable software.
Focusing on business benefits throughout, Gai places Distributed Services Platforms in the context of current trends in network and cloud architecture and virtualization. He compares four leading architectures: Sea of Processors, FPGAs, ASIC, and P4, reviewing the advantages and tradeoffs of each, and illuminating key concepts with intuitive illustrations. He also previews P4 extensions that may offer significant value. By the time readers have finished, they'll know how to evaluate solutions, ask pertinent questions, and plan the best Distributed Services Platform strategies for their own environments.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

雲架構正在引領數據中心組織的根本變革,多租戶在公有、私有和混合雲中變得普遍。為了未來證明雲基礎設施的可擴展性,網絡架構師們正在轉向分散式服務平台。

在《構建未來證明的雲基礎設施》中,網絡先驅Silvano Gai展示了如何在不同硬件上實現具有多個服務模塊的分散式服務平台。Gai展示了如何提供基本的共享服務,例如段路由、NAT、防火牆、微分段、負載平衡、SSL/TLS終止、VPN、RDMA和存儲,包括存儲壓縮和加密。他演示了將服務模塊分佈在應用程序附近如何實現非常高的性能、低延遲、低抖動、深度可觀察性和快速故障排除,將硬件的性能優勢與可編程軟件的卓越靈活性相結合。

Gai將分散式服務平台放在網絡和雲架構以及虛擬化的當前趨勢背景下,並專注於業務效益。他比較了四種領先的架構:處理器海、FPGA、ASIC和P4,評估了每種架構的優勢和權衡,並通過直觀的插圖闡明了關鍵概念。他還預覽了可能提供重要價值的P4擴展。讀者在閱讀完畢時,將了解如何評估解決方案,提出相關問題,並為自己的環境規劃最佳的分散式服務平台策略。

作者簡介

Silvano Gai, now a Fellow with Pensando Systems, has 35+ years of experience in computer engineering and networking. The author of several books and technical publications on computer networking, as well as multiple Internet Drafts and RFCs, he is responsible for 50 issued patents. He spent seven years as a full professor of Computer Engineering, tenure track, at Politecnico di Torino, Italy, as well as seven years as a researcher at the CNR (Italian National Council for Scientific Research). For twenty years he has been a Cisco Fellow, architecting the Cisco Catalyst family of network switches, the Cisco MDS family of storage networking switches, the Nexus family of data center switches, and the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS).

 

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Silvano Gai,現任Pensando Systems的Fellow,擁有35年以上的計算機工程和網絡方面的經驗。他是幾本關於計算機網絡的書籍和技術出版物的作者,也是多個互聯網草案和RFC的作者,並擁有50項已獲得專利。他曾在意大利都靈理工大學擔任計算機工程的全職教授七年,並在意大利國家科學研究委員會(CNR)擔任研究員七年。在過去的二十年中,他一直是思科公司的Fellow,負責設計思科Catalyst系列網絡交換機、思科MDS系列存儲網絡交換機、Nexus系列數據中心交換機和思科統一計算系統(UCS)。