Welcome to Random Short Take #84. There’s a bit going on, so let’s get random.

• Stephen Wagner published the most excellent NVIDIA vGPU Troubleshooting Guide – How to troubleshoot vGPU on VMware. It’s extremely comprehensive, and worth checking out if you’re doing anything with vGPU on VMware.
• Preston did a great job of talking about the difference between Outage vs Outrage. It usually comes down to one letter.
• I like Time Machine, and I like the way Howard explains Apple concepts in his blog posts, so this article “How does Time Machine make a backup?” really hit the spot.
• My friend Vincent has made it to 100,000 hits on his blog, and I really hope he gets a lot more. He’s a smart chap.
• The folks at Backblaze have published their annual Backblaze Drive Stats for 2022 and, not to be outdone by themselves (?), have also published The SSD Edition: 2022 Drive Stats Review.
• In press release news, Nyriad and DigitalGlue Partner.
• In other news, Asigra unveiled a backup platform to protect the world’s catalog of Software-as-a-Service Applications with SaaSBACKUP℠ Platform. What? You don’t back up your SaaS? You probably should, hey?
• In another PR news, Pure Storage recently announced the FlashBlade//E.