Welcome to Random Short Take #99. I’m about to go on a brief holiday. Let’s get random.
- Joey D’Antoni wants to know if you’ve been thinking about storing files in your databases? Here’s why you shouldn’t, and what you should do instead.
- There’s something that really irks me about this behaviour. It just seems so reckless, even in a world where reckless seems normal – FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again.
- A lot of good news out of VMware Explore Barcelona this year, including Christian managing to rickroll some WiFi.
- Curtis recently published a podcast episode and supporting article on DR testing: common mistakes and how to avoid them.
- Not getting enough press release links? Well Datadobi has launched StorageMAP 7.1 and it adds more solutions to solve unstructured data challenges.
- SC24 is on this week, and Cerabyte will be discussing use cases for its Ceramic Data Storage Solution.
- More PR news? VDURA has unveiled its Next-Gen Data Platform with improved AI and HPC performance.
- Rounding out the press release barrage, Hammerspace talks about unlocking a new tier of ultra-fast shared storage.