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Modern Infrastructure Digest News and advice for creating tomorrow's data center | May 11, 2017 FEATURED STORY Your hardware bill could soon look like your cloud bill By Robert Gates, News Writer Metered billing has long had its place only in cloud computing but has now made its way inside the enterprise on-premises data center. (SearchDataCenter.com) Advertisement NEWS   Kubernetes hogs OpenStack spotlight IT pros embrace infrastructure abstraction and automation, but many still question how to use OpenStack and Kubernetes -- together or apart. (SearchITOperations.com)   How popular is Kubernetes on OpenStack deployments? Dig into statistics from the OpenStack User Survey to understand how many OpenStack deployments use Kubernetes for containers in production. (SearchITOperations.com)   Ten IT trends to keep following in 2017 The top IT trends that influence enterprise data centers remain largely the same, from containers to high-speed networking to managing IoT. (SearchDataCenter.com)   ServiceNow aims beyond ITSM with intelligent automation ServiceNow took a bold step, debuting several new web-based applications that will be tightly tied to its newly improved automation platform. (SearchITOperations.com) EXPERT ADVICE   How to make your servers private cloud-ready The road to private cloud implementation is fraught with technical challenges. Start by assessing your server processor, memory and storage support. (SearchDataCenter.com)   VMware security hit by Apache Struts 2 vulnerability Open source vulnerabilities are a major pain for data center admins. For VMware users, a security pitfall in the wrong place could mean a complete compromise. (SearchVMware.com)   Evaluate hyper-converged software vs. rack servers Could hyper-converged software be the way of the future? Let's consider its benefits and drawbacks, as well as those of rack servers. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   Build containers, configs and more in this DevOps lab Learn DevOps concepts with hands-on experiments in this step-by-step ops home lab, covering Docker, Ansible and other platforms. (SearchITOperations.com)   Become a shell scripter Sys admins need to learn shell scripts to easily execute commands on Linux and Unix systems. This shell script programming tutorial outlines the basics. (SearchITOperations.com)   Experts analyze NFV technology and the marketplace Network function virtualization is a complex and costly technology that needs to be reimagined in some ways for it to make sense for enterprise IT. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   VMware integrates centralized logging with NSX 6.2.3 VRealize Log Insight NSX is specifically designed to handle centralized logging for NSX. Here's how to use vRealize Log Insight NSX and its components. (SearchVMware.com)   The secret ingredients to a colo SLA To negotiate a workable colocation agreement, understand what services you need and how to verify that a particular provider can actually deliver them. (SearchDataCenter.com) About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Modern Infrastructure Digest, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget Data Center and Virtualization Media Group, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2016 TechTarget. All rights reserved.