Container management reels from Red Hat acquisition; Automated root cause analysis hits mainstream; and more

Modern Infrastructure Digest News and advice for creating tomorrow's data center | November 1, 2018 FEATURED STORY IBM Red Hat deal shakes up container management By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer IBM's Red Hat acquisition shakes up many markets but will heavily affect open source container management, with Kubernetes at the center of IBM's multi-cloud strategy. (SearchITOperations.com) Advertisement NEWS   IBM acquires Red Hat to boost its hybrid cloud strategy The proposed IBM-Red Hat combination aims to use each other's strengths in open source technologies to establish a beachhead in the hybrid cloud market. But the companies must sort out overlaps with each other's offerings and partnerships with competitors. (SearchCloudComputing.com)   Automated root cause analysis becomes reality for IT Automated root cause analysis has been hyped for more than a year, but DevOps monitoring tools that offer troubleshooting guidance and even predictive analytics are finally in production within mainstream organizations. (SearchITOperations.com) EXPERT ADVICE   The help desk doesn't have to be reactive Help desk ticketing systems have sat stagnant and inefficient for years without any suitable replacement. But it's high time these tools received the same machine learning and AI treatment as other aspects of ITSM. (SearchITOperations.com)   Implement these IT infrastructure design principles IT administrators must regularly step back from maintenance and return to virtualization infrastructure design principles, such as planning, transparency and flexibility, to improve their deployments. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   HCI, servers bring individual benefits to data centers IT administrators often examine hyper-convergence vs. traditional server capabilities to expand data center processing power. HCI is often touted as being fast and easy to stand up, but some traditional infrastructures are just as easy to deploy. (SearchDataCenter.com)   ESXi ARM success hinges on edge technology explosion VMware hopes to ride the rise of ARM CPUs with its ESXi ARM hypervisor the same way it succeeded with virtualization during the rise of x86 CPUs. VMware ARM technology is poised to capture a growing demand among edge, IoT and telco organizations for better management capabilities. (SearchVMware.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.