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<h3 style="font-style: italic;">If you like Calico, you'll love Calico Cloud!</h3>
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      <th style="text-align: center"><img src="{{site.baseurl}}/images/calico-logo-64px.png" alt="Calico" style="margin: auto;"></th>
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      <th colspan="3">Networking</th>
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      <td>High performance scalable pod networking</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Advanced IP address management</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Direct infrastructure peering without the overlay</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>eBPF dataplane</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Windows dataplane</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <th colspan="3">Security</th>
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      <td>Security policy enforcement</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Data-in-transit encryption</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Hierarchical tiers</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>FQDN / DNS based policy</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Microsegmentation across host/VMs/containers</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Security policy preview, staging, and recommendation</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Compliance reporting & alerts</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Intrusion detection & prevention (IDS / IPS) for Kubernetes</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>SIEM integrations</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <th colspan="3">Observability</th>
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      <td>Dynamic service graph</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Application Layer observability</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Dynamic packet capture</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>DNS dashboards</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <td>Flow visualizer</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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      <th colspan="3">Management</th>
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      <td>Multi cluster, multi-cloud & hybrid cloud networking</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</td>
      <td style="text-align: center">✓</td>
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