{"id":10248,"date":"2021-12-01T08:30:57","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T22:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=10248"},"modified":"2021-12-01T08:05:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T22:05:55","slug":"random-short-take-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short take #64. It&#8217;s the start of the last month of the year. We&#8217;re almost there.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Want to read an article that&#8217;s both funny and informative? Look no further than this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.networkfuntimes.com\/a-complete-beginners-guide-to-subnetting\/\">beginner&#8217;s guide to subnetting<\/a>. I did Elizabethan literature at uni, so it was good to get a reminder on Shakespeare&#8217;s involvement in IP addressing.<\/li>\n<li>Continuing with the amusing articles, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ccolotti\">Chris Colotti<\/a> published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chriscolotti.us\/everything-else\/miscellaneous\/cohesity-light-board-outtakes\/\">a video of outtakes from some Cohesity lightboard sessions<\/a> that had me cracking up. It&#8217;s always nice when people don&#8217;t take themselves too seriously.<\/li>\n<li>On a more serious note, data hoarding is a problem (I know this because I&#8217;ve been guilty of it), and <a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2021\/11\/15\/unmanaged-data-hoarding-is-deadly-to-your-business\/\">this article<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/backupbear\">Preston<\/a> outlines some of the reasons why it can be a bad thing for business.<\/li>\n<li>Still on data protection, Howard Oakley looks at checking the integrity of Time Machine backups in <a href=\"https:\/\/eclecticlight.co\/2021\/11\/29\/how-can-you-check-the-integrity-of-backed-up-files\/\">this post<\/a>. I&#8217;ve probably mentioned this a few times previously, but if you find macOS behaviour baffling at times, Howard likely has an article that can explain why you&#8217;re seeing what you&#8217;re seeing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerto.com\/\">Zerto<\/a> recently announced Zerto In-Cloud for AWS &#8211; you read more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerto.com\/press-releases\/zerto-announces-zerto-in-cloud-for-aws-to-deliver-disaster-recovery-at-scale\/\">here<\/a>. Zerto is really starting to put together a comprehensive suite of DR solutions. Worth checking out.<\/li>\n<li>Still on press releases, <a href=\"https:\/\/datadobi.com\/\">Datadobi<\/a> has announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20211116005124\/en\/Datadobi-Software-Enhancements-Power-Agile-Multi-Cloud-Expansion-Flexible-Data-Reorganization-Lower-Costs\">new enhancements to DobiMigrate<\/a> with 5.13. The company also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20211130005119\/en\/Datadobi-Validates-Google-Cloud-Storage-as-an-Endpoint-for-Data-Management\">recently validated Google Cloud Storage<\/a> as an endpoint for its DobiProtect solution.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.leaseweb.com\/\">Leaseweb Global<\/a> is also doing stuff with Google Cloud &#8211; you can read more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/leaseweb_global_adds_google_cloud_capabilities_to_leaseweb_cloud_connect\/prweb18335087.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2021\/11\/22\/peter-pans-teenage-startups-with-no-filed-ipo-plans\/\">this article<\/a> over at Blocks and Files on what constitutes a startup made for some interesting reading. Some companies truly are Peter Pans at this point, whilst others are holding on to the idea that they&#8217;re still in startup mode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short take #64. It&#8217;s the start of the last month of the year. We&#8217;re almost there. Want to read an article that&#8217;s both funny and informative? Look no further than this beginner&#8217;s guide to subnetting. I did Elizabethan literature at uni, so it was good to get a reminder on Shakespeare&#8217;s involvement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,874,837,135,25,1042,115,512,1051],"tags":[832,976,1282,1313,288,516,848,678,991],"class_list":["post-10248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-cloud","category-cohesity","category-computers","category-dataprotection","category-google-cloud-platform","category-networker-backup","category-networks","category-zerto","tag-cohesity","tag-data-protection","tag-datadobi","tag-leaseweb","tag-network","tag-networks-2","tag-random","tag-time-machine","tag-zerto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10248"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10250,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10248\/revisions\/10250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}