The world is moving from traditional data centers to so-called "data centers". Today's "traditional" enterprise data centers are expanding with distributed and virtualized "edge" data centers where data is created and processed.
While data center networking has evolved over the past decade and provided higher performance 25/100/400G leaf-spine topologies to address the greater volume and speed of emerging application architectures, such progress has not occurred in security and service architectures.
Centralized security devices were not designed to control and protect application traffic that moves east-west within the data center. From an operational or economic point of view, it is not practical to deploy a set of security devices in every server rack, and connecting traffic to equipment located in centralized services is associated with large performance and cost losses.
Providing network and security services at scale is an increasing challenge for enterprises, whether it is expanding an existing data center to meet the growing demand for digital services, or deploying new infrastructures in colocation facilities to support new innovative applications.
According to surveys, up to 70% of organizations run or plan to run cloud and container-based applications in hybrid environments. Enterprises need a modern distributed services environment to better support modern, cloud-native applications.
Aruba brings further development in switch architecture
Aruba is aware of the need and urgency of solving these new realities, and therefore in cooperation with AMD Pensando has created a new category of network switches (switches) - Aruba Distributed Services Switch.
The Aruba CX 10000 series switch represents the next evolution of data center switch architecture, combining powerful L2/L3 data center switching with a single fully programmable data processing unit (DPU) from AMD Pensando. The Aruba CX 10000 delivers software-defined services inline, at scale, with wire-speed performance and an order of magnitude improvement in scale and performance over traditional L2/L3 data center switches at a fraction of their total cost.
The Aruba CX 10000 device enables advanced network and security services to be deployed as close as possible to the point of application processing - at the server-network boundary, rather than at the perimeter as in traditional data center network architecture. With firewall, encryption, tunneling and other services running directly on the distributed services switch, organizations can deliver new service capabilities faster.
Aruba's innovative distributed services switch provides wire-speed routing and switching with stateful L4-L7 software services including firewall, DDoS, encryption, network address translation (NAT), load balancing and network telemetry - for any workload, any server or any deployment. Automation is enabled by the powerful and programmable Aruba AOS-CX operating system.
The Aruba CX 10000 is designed to optimize network bandwidth and performance, delivering 100x the range, 10x the performance at one-third the cost of legacy switching and security solutions.
Unification of network and security policies and automation
Aruba Fabric Composer is a unified network and security management tool for the Aruba CX 10000. It manages all switch and network configurations and all firewall policy definitions for both switches and distributed firewalls. Aruba Fabric Composer interacts with the switch itself and embedded security policies as needed.
The Aruba CX 10000 also integrates via a REST API and provides flow data to a wide range of security and network performance tools, including advanced security ML (XDR), application dependency mapping (ADM), network performance management (NPM), SIEM/ SOAR, firewall compliance rules, and identity group mapping.
Use cases of switches of distributed services
The Aruba CX 10000 provides a clear choice for businesses whose existing data centers want to use a distributed services model. For example, if you are adding a new server rack, you can deploy an Aruba CX 10000. Over time, you can also replace other leaf switches in the infrastructure with an Aruba CX 10000 device.
The new switch is also suitable for colocation edge deployments where an organization may want security or encryption features but face space and/or power constraints. Instead of having to host security devices and other infrastructure, the Aruba CX 10000 provides link-speed security and encryption by building into the network fabric (the top of the server rack) rather than deploying costly security devices or backhauling traffic to a centralized local security device.
It is time for a new idea about data center switches
Businesses accelerating their digital initiatives and cloud application development need an agile, scalable and high-performance foundation. Aruba's next-generation data center switches are game-changers, enabling businesses to deliver unparalleled digital experiences to their customers and employees with unprecedented scalability, performance and operational efficiency.
About Aruba Company
Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, is a global leader in secure, intelligent networking solutions "from edge to cloud" that use artificial intelligence to automate the network while leveraging data to drive greater business results. With the Aruba ESP (Edge Services Platform) and as-a-service capabilities, Aruba takes a cloud-first approach to help customers meet their connectivity, security and financial requirements across campuses, branch offices, data centers and enterprise environments. remote workers, covering all aspects of wired, wireless LAN and WAN networks.
About eGroup Solutions, a. s.
The year 2009 brought the establishment of the independent company eGroup Solutions. While searching for answers to questions about the use of any solutions and systems for data management and protection, we came across the important fact that almost 90% of companies, as well as private individuals, do not have their important data adequately protected, and at least half of them have no idea why she should have done at all. This is where the focus and specialization of eGroup Solutions originates.
More information about the evolution in data center switch architecture:
https://blogs.arubanetworks.com/corporate/the-next-evolution-of-switching-architecture-is-here/
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The Next Evolution of Switching Architecture is Here
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