DevOps skills gap persists; Critics wary of enterprise Openstack; and more

Modern Infrastructure Digest News and advice for creating tomorrow's data center | May 25, 2017 FEATURED STORY Compliance as code stymied by IT skills gap By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer Security and compliance as code would be improved by automation, but DevOps shops need more hands on deck to carry that out. (SearchITOperations.com) Advertisement NEWS   Automation changes IT ops -- and who's at the helm IT operations automation pushes ops engineers to rely more on their tools -- and in the best scenario, pushes the business to rely more on IT. (SearchITOperations.com)   Supporters, critics still debate enterprise OpenStack Despite new users and partnerships, many questions continue to dog enterprise OpenStack use, from costs and complexity to a broader revenue model. (SearchDataCenter.com) EXPERT ADVICE   Cloud hasn't beat the on-premises data center yet IT pros don't want to abandon their traditional enterprise on-premises data centers, despite the rapid growth of colocation and cloud services. (SearchDataCenter.com)   Configuration errors cause storage I/O control issues Depending on the workload and the configuration, storage I/O control could have an undesirable impact on a workload's performance in vSphere. (SearchVMware.com)   Validate SCVMM service templates It's important for administrators to validate SCVMM service templates before deployment. Check your configuration with these PowerShell commands. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   App load balancing techniques that smooth spikes Application load balancing requires management and virtualized resources architected to scale. VMware, Microsoft, AWS and others have technologies for the task. (SearchITOperations.com)   Don't let the IT asset inventory run amuck IT asset tracking and inventory management enable organizations to stay on top of licenses, capacity and contracts. (SearchITOperations.com)   Decide between three Hyper-V deployment types Different Hyper-V deployment types have different levels of GUIs. Decide what kind of GUI environment you need before choosing which to use. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   Replicating virtual machines to a local host Here is a step-by-step guide of how to use VMware vSphere Replication to copy virtual machines to a local host and the options you have to choose from. (SearchVMware.com)   The latest SUSE Manager 3 features IT needs to know The core components of SUSE Manager 3 now support Salt integration. See what else is new in the latest release of the lifecycle management tool. (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.