HPE acquires Plexxi; Chef Automate releases update; and more

Modern Infrastructure Digest News and advice for creating tomorrow's data center | May 24, 2018 FEATURED STORY HPE boosts composable strategy with Plexxi deal By Ed Scannell, Senior Executive Editor HPE made the latest leapfrog move among a handful of competitors in the composable infrastructure market. The acquisition of Plexxi adds a critical networking piece to both HPE composable infrastructure and HCI strategies in hopes to fend off Dell and Nutanix. (SearchDataCenter.com) Advertisement NEWS   Chef Automate redux seeks fresh partners, buyers Chef Automate 2.0 is a complete IT automation software overhaul, which comes as Chef must shore up software integrations for existing customers, while it also woos bleeding-edge DevOps shops. (SearchITOperations.com)   Why devs need to care about infrastructure in the cloud Cloud infrastructure services become less important to developers as vendors further abstract the lower tiers of the stack with containers and serverless architecture, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't care at all. Leaders from Bitnami, Microsoft and Pivotal share their thoughts. (SearchCloudComputing.com) EXPERT ADVICE   SIEM tools provide automation, reporting SIEM software offers many benefits to organizations when it comes to event management, though some companies may not know that it can also be used for anomaly detection and automated reporting. (SearchDataCenter.com)   VMware micro-segmentation advances network security VMware micro-segmentation technology reaches from NSX to AppDefense and points to a new future for network security that emphasizes process-level security and behavioral analysis. (SearchVMware.com)   Key features of private cloud services Private cloud services offerings should provide an intuitive self-service portal, a quota management system, a role-based access control environment, capacity planning capabilities and policy enforcement for tenant workloads. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   Support app deployment and orchestration with Jenkins Jenkins is a popular CI/CD tool because it reaches from developers to operations to support an app from one end to the other. Once devs finish the code build, the ops team takes over to use Jenkins for deployment and orchestration features. (SearchITOperations.com)   Chart a swift course from code to prod Once an organization draws its unique deployment pipeline stages and workflows, it's easy to identify process issues and oversights that lead to issues in production. Gary Gruver explains in this video. (SearchITOperations.com)   Pop quiz: Public and private cloud differences Private vs. public cloud: See if you're an expert on the advantages and disadvantages, architecture, pricing, use cases, features and management of these two cloud models. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   Three ways ESXi supports flash storage To support flash storage, VMware uses vSAN, ESXi virtual flash caching and enables storing Virtual Machine File System data stores on flash media. (SearchVMware.com)   Configure Hadoop clusters with these guidelines Because each workload has different parameters, it's important to follow best practices for Hadoop cluster configuration with XML files, education on various functions and continuous testing. (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 2018 TechTarget. All rights reserved.