IBM targets high-end hardware market; Patch Tuesday addresses 60 vulnerabilities; and more

Modern Infrastructure Digest News and advice for creating tomorrow's data center | August 16, 2018 FEATURED STORY IBM Power9 servers take on Intel in the cloud By Ed Scannell, Senior Executive Editor In its ongoing server competition with Intel, Big Blue has thrown down the latest challenge, with two IBM Power9 servers that guarantee 99.9996% uptime and cheaper maintenance costs. The models E950 and E980 come with software to ease cloud setup. (SearchDataCenter.com) Advertisement NEWS   Admins face 60 vulnerabilities for August Patch Tuesday August Patch Tuesday arrived with Microsoft providing advice to mitigate a new Intel CPU bug in the same vein as the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. The company also closed two zero-day exploits in its monthly security updates. (SearchWindowsServer.com)   AIOps platforms home in on root causes AIOps platforms prove data is power, as FixStream helped a major U.S. city pinpoint the cause of an error in an online payments system. And OverOps creates log files that link machine performance data to app code changes. (SearchITOperations.com) EXPERT ADVICE   Considerations for data center hardware migration Many organizations are transferring to converged data center infrastructures, citing the benefits of vendor support and overall maintenance costs. Learn what backups and workload migrations to make before the upgrade. (SearchDataCenter.com)   VMware partnerships to trump products at VMworld 2018 VMware partnerships could steal the show from any announcements of new products or features at VMworld 2018. The vendor's close ties to Pivotal signal a desire to improve its market standing through joint ventures. (SearchVMware.com)   Use PowerShell cmdlets to manage VMM library servers Although you can perform operational tasks using VMM, certain processes can be extremely time-consuming. Learn some time-saving PowerShell commands that you can use to manage VMM library servers and the resources stored in library shares. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   Reap these six rewards from continuous delivery Continuous delivery benefits, such as small, fast releases and the ability to maneuver a quickly changing demand landscape, take the paradigm from a positive option to a business necessity. (SearchITOperations.com)   Focus on network-centric capacity issues The two major network capacity planning considerations for hybrid, cloud and distributed workloads are address space and the VPN gateway to cloud provider resources. Learn how to manage network spaces carefully and where to make choices that prevent the network from degrading app performance. (SearchITOperations.com)   XCP-ng breathes new life into XenServer XCP-ng is an open source fork of Citrix XenServer that offers many of the advanced features found in proprietary hypervisors, but is making the switch worth the migration challenges? (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   VMware broadens reach to support containers VMware's strategy for containers doesn't leave VMs in the dust. The long-term goal is to integrate PKS with vSphere, enabling businesses to use VMware's unified software-defined data center infrastructure for containers and VMs. (SearchVMware.com)   Simplify SIEM setup with these alerts Creating a structure for SIEM reports can be daunting because of all the possible options. Still, the technology enables you to figure out from where, when and who is accessing your data center -- making it an important tool for security. (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.