Look back at last year's data center advancements

Modern Infrastructure Digest News and advice for creating tomorrow's data center | January 10, 2019 FEATURED STORY A look at 2018 data center news highlights By Jessica Lulka, Associate Site Editor This past year's data center news centered on artificial intelligence, hyper-converged infrastructure and cloud adoption. This focus brought admins further from the traditional on-premises data center and made it easier to manage software-defined architectures and cloud components. (SearchDataCenter.com) Advertisement NEWS   Microsoft fixes 47 vulnerabilities January Patch Tuesday Microsoft delivered an out-of-band patch to plug an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that a security expert says administrators should prioritize before deploying the January Patch Tuesday fixes. (SearchWindowsServer.com)   Top 10 IT infrastructure trends for 2019 From new IT roles to shrinking data centers, there is much to come for IT operations. Prepare for 2019 with a look at the emerging IT trends that will affect the IT operations scene over the next 12 months. (SearchITOperations.com) EXPERT ADVICE   Aggregation tools make sense of log files Application log files are abundant in modern, complex IT environments. They reveal important data but only if you know how to translate it. Log management and aggregation tools cut the learning curve and kill the guesswork to find trends and shifts for admins before problems surface. (SearchITOperations.com)   Discover leading server vendors and their many products Server hardware vendors offer a wide range of servers featuring rack, blade and mainframe computers, as well as converged and hyper-converged systems. Read these in-depth descriptions to find the best provider to keep your data center on track and running. (SearchDataCenter.com)   Hybrid cloud use cases focus on workload flexibility Hybrid cloud trends are garnering more attention, and IT administrators who want to adopt the technology should use these tips to prepare for hybrid cloud deployment and migration. A need for workload flexibility drives most hybrid cloud use cases, but admins must carefully plan their approach. (SearchServerVirtualization.com)   VMware gains traction in the SD-WAN market VeloCloud is emerging as one of the more popular products in the SD-WAN market in the midst of a shift toward cloud computing. This positions VMware well, although further integration is needed. Learn more about VMware's 2017 acquisition and its potential future. (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.