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Cloud Providers’ Data Center Checklist

Start with connectivity, the foundation of the cloud, and define your data center fabric before building out your cloud environment. This could be controller-less, using

automation practices together with the fabric, or controller-based, where the solution runs

end-to-end connectivity and security.

The decision depends on what automation, orchestration and cloud platform suits your customer’s needs.

For control-based fabrics, you may consider a physical switching layer alongside physical and virtual appliances.

Define your data center fabric

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Providers will have different profiles and goals to meet their client’s needs, which will vary with the cloud

type they need to support; private, public, virtualized, hyper-converged or containerized. Workloads could

be bare metal, virtualized or containerized.

Deployments could be scratch-built greenfield environments, but most will be brownfield with varying legacy infrastructures so it’s key to find a solution that

allows customers to define their ideal strategy and best solution for their journey.

Choose a cloud solution

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The same tools used to automate connectivity are also used to extend workloads to cloud environments.

You can automate connectivity to support applications with underlay networking to provision physical elements

or by automating the overlay network with software defined and overlay networking techniques.

This builds dynamic, private connections between workloads that you can extend out securely to your

customer’s public cloud platform (or platforms).

Automate connectivity and extend

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There are many security and management tools to fully secure workloads across a cloud system. By consolidating them within a single user interface, you can fully manage

and automate the entire network environment.

These tools cover orchestration, hardware and virtual routing operating systems, firewall platforms, threat prevention, switches and routers. A complete, interconnected portfolio offers a simplified, secure

and automated way to uncomplicate the cloud.

Layer in and coordinate security

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