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Welcome to Random Short Take #78. We’re hurtling towards the silly season. Let’s get random.

I mentioned verge.io in one of my recent short takes. Chris M. Evans has done the heavy lifting for me and written about test driving the verge.io Software-Defined Data Centre. Worth checking out.
Speaking of SDDCs, this article on automating VM Migration AND their Firewall rules to VMC was super useful.
I’ve been a Dropbox user for some time, and as disk-slinger in a former life, I really enjoy reading the company’s tech blog. This post on cloud storage abstraction with Object Store was great.
Data breaches – everyone’s having them. Are you missing out? It’s probably just a matter of time. While you’re waiting, check out this article from Preston – John Proctor and Data Breaches.
It’s always sad when a startup stops. Mellor writes that Pavilion Data – last NVMe over Fabrics flash array startup – has died. I had the opportunity to take the kit for a spin in a previous role, and spent some time with some of their people. Smart folks doing interesting things. I hope those impacted land on their feet.
In press release news, Imply has announced a major Open Source Contribution for Apache Druid; as well as a new financial guarantee for Apache Druid users.
I always enjoy talking to Chris about his Plex setup, because he’s taken it to the next level. Here’s a great article he put together on how to automate lighting with Plex playback.
Finally, our old friend VMware vCenter Converter is back. You can download it from here.

Welcome to Random Short Take #68. Let’s get random.

In press release news, Datadobi has been awarded an NCPA Contract with Climb Channel Solutions
Imply has announced Polaris, a Cloud Database Service for Modern Analytics Applications. You can read more about that here.
I find the idea of scale, and what it really means to different people, to be fascinating. The folks at Netflix know a bit about scale, and I found this article on the Rapid Event Notification System at Netflix to be particularly interesting.
Ethan Banks put together this really useful guide on how to create a Python Function you can call from other scripts.
Viktor posted this VMUGNL session recording: From idea to production with VMware Tanzu. It’s great to see folks finally able to get back to in-person VMUG meetings.
Howard put together a great guide on backing up iCloud documents – Can you back up iCloud documents? It’s something that I think not enough people look at too closely.
Have you ever had AV Upgraditis? I have, on plenty of occasions.
This opinion piece over at El Reg was interesting – Apple has missed the video revolution.

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