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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO Business Intelligence

It’s not as simple as just extending traditional firewall capabilities to the cloud. In many cases, organizations adopt legacy network security solutions and architectures to secure these cloud workloads that often fail to provide complete security coverage. In fact, a few of the most common challenges include: Risk. Operational costs.

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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

Solarflare adapters are deployed in a wide range of use cases, including software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NoSQL databases, caching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming and storage networks.

Software 194
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Solarflare’s Open Compute Platform, Software-Defined, NIC Card

CTOvision

Solarflare adapters are deployed in a wide range of use cases, including software-defined networking (SDN), network functions virtualization (NFV), web content optimization, DNS acceleration, web firewalls, load balancing, NoSQL databases, caching tiers (Memcached), web proxies, video streaming and storage networks.

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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

CCA prerequisites Large organizations usually govern their IT portfolio via global architectural patterns, which can be thought of as building blocks, and include IT security patterns. In practice, IT architectural patterns give architects the building blocks to design any IT solution.

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Networking.

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Technology Short Take 143

Scott Lowe

Here’s a quick look at using Envoy as a load balancer in Kubernetes. I saw this blog post about Curiefense , an open source Envoy extension to add WAF (web application firewall) functionality to Envoy. It’s a good starting point for thinking about operating your own active-active architecture. Networking.

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On Network Virtualization and SDN

Scott Lowe

According to Martin, the term SDN originally referred to a change in the network architecture to include a) decoupling the distribution model of the control plane from the data plane; and b) generalized rather than fixed function forwarding hardware. What about virtualized load balancers? Or virtualized firewalls?