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NFV is Out of Sync with the Cloud-Native Movement. Here’s a Solution

CATO Networks

Mitchell believes the full value of NFV wont be achieved until these services are developed in an API-driven, cloud-native fashion. Thus, despite the industry hype, NFV will largely look like the managed or hosted firewalls and other devices of the past, with some incremental benefits from using virtual instead of physical appliances.

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Will cloud-based networking be your next WAN?

CATO Networks

Cloud-based networking makes it simple to address these challenges in a secure and scalable fashion. For example, as opposed to buying a next-generation firewall (NGFW) appliance, NGFW functionality can be provided using cloud-based, software-defined services from a cloud service provider.

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Egnyte Architecture: Lessons learned in building and scaling a multi petabyte content platform

High Scalability

For e.g., if accessing file system over WebDAV or FTP has performance issues, and it will take 4 hours to fix, then for those 4 hours, you can just kill FTP/WebDAV at kong/firewall and ask customers to use web UI or other mechanisms to work. API gateway. We use Mashery as a gateway, the API is documented at [link]. Integrations.