PagerDuty expands product line; Azure shops endure outage; and more

Modern Infrastructure Digest News and advice for creating tomorrow's data center | September 13, 2018 FEATURED STORY PagerDuty broadens incident response scope By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer As PagerDuty incident response tools create views into incidents for business managers, IT pros in large and complex organizations expect more flexibility with escalation policies. (SearchITOperations.com) Advertisement NEWS   Microsoft's Azure outage stresses cloud design contrasts A prolonged Microsoft Azure outage this week has stymied customers beyond that single region, and it illustrates a key difference between the major public clouds providers' infrastructure decisions and dependencies. (SearcCloudComputing.com)   Best of VMworld 2018 U.S. Award winners The Best of VMworld 2018 U.S. Awards highlight the most innovative products on display at VMworld 2018. Here are the winners of all seven categories and the Best of Show. (SearchServerVirtualization.com) EXPERT ADVICE   Helpful commands for Linux process management Admins that do Linux work likely spend time with process management. Learning these Linux process management commands can reduce the time spent coding in the command-line interface. (SearchDataCenter.com)   VMware develops tools to manage cloud costs As public cloud adoption grows, many companies are discovering cloud costs aren't as transparent as they might have assumed. VMware is meeting a growing demand for cloud cost management tools with products such as VMware Cost Insight, but the market still has room to grow. (SearchVMware.com)   Composable infrastructures engulf virtualization There are many benefits to a composable infrastructure, and virtualization will eventually be folded into it. A composable infrastructure is a framework that includes services from compute, storage and network resources. It offers improved flexibility for different workloads while maximizing resources. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   Microservices add a new dimension to anomaly detection Anomaly detection methods in microservices performance management processes look at different metrics on a swath of platform and application layers that traditional monolithic monitoring tools can't see. (SearchITOperations.com)   An introductory approach to infrastructure versioning The Git version control system gives infrastructure admins the same standardization and rollback capabilities that devs experience with code. Get started with configuration as code in simple steps. (SearchITOperations.com)   Use hyper-convergence to mix environments Mixed test and production environments have significant performance and recovery advantages, even when hyper-converged infrastructure can separate and tune workloads for different environments. Using a few techniques, IT admins can get the benefits clustering would provide in a mixed environment. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   Configure a VMFS Datastore Effectively manage and maintain your Virtual Machine File System Datastores with these comprehensive instructions on how to scan for new storage devices, create a VMFS Datastore, mount and dismount a VMFS Datastore, and increase the size of a VMFS Datastore. (SearchVMware.com)   How managed private cloud can reduce costs Stephan Fabel, director of product at Canonical, discusses how managed private cloud can be a more financially feasible option for long-term operations and infrastructure upgrades. (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.