Evolution of Web Services Infrastructures
The Web service infrastructure is middleware, which is embraced by both early adopters and mainstream enterprises interested in reducing costs and integrating legacy applications. The Web service paradigm is platform neutral as well as hardware and software neutral. Thus enterprises can easily communicate with employees, customers, business partners, and vendors while maintaining the specific security requirements, access, and privileges needs of all. The examples used in this book will focus on Web-based systems, which simplifies our discussion from a networking perspective.
FIGURE 1-1 shows a conceptual model of how this new paradigm impacts the data center network architecture, which must efficiently ...
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