<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>