Random short take #104. Want news? This is where news goes to die. Let’s get random.

• Starting with a little how-to article from Kad – the different ways to install VMware Tools.
• And still on Broadcom, here’s a handy article from Chris on download tokens and VMware updates.
• Here’s one view on how to backup your iCloud data. This stuff keeps me awake at night.
• Speaking of consumer data in the cloud, here’s a neat article from Dropbox on its seventh-generation server hardware.
• Switching gears slightly, here’s a great article from Chin-Fah on intelligent data movement and data placement and how it will dictate the future of AI data infrastructure.
• Still on AI, it’s becoming a pain for data centre capacity planning according to El Reg.
• Speaking of storing things, Brian Moses 3D-printed a NAS case. Like, a pretty big one.
• In press release news, the Active Archive Alliance has welcomed BDT Media Automation to the organisation. In other PR news, Hammerspace has announced some impressive benchmarking results.