{"id":10362,"date":"2022-03-28T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=10362"},"modified":"2022-03-28T09:08:34","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T23:08:34","slug":"random-short-take-69","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-69\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #69"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #69. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The recent-ish announcement of Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/au\/mac-studio\/\">Mac Studio<\/a> made for some interesting news. The Verge looks at it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/22974998\/apple-xmac-myth-midrange-mid-tower-mac-studio\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>When I was working with Veeam technologies, Anthony made things easier by doing a lot of the work for me. Now I work with VMC on AWS and it seems Anthony is still doing work for me. Check out his post on <a href=\"https:\/\/anthonyspiteri.net\/sddc-network-import-export-for-vmware-cloud-on-aws\/\">SDDC Network Import\/Export<\/a> and this one <a href=\"https:\/\/anthonyspiteri.net\/vmware-cloud-on-aws-firewall-rules-disable-themselves\/\">on firewall rules automatically disabling themselves<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of VMware Cloud on AWS, it&#8217;s now available on the AWS Marketplace. You can read more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/cloud\/2022\/03\/10\/vmware-cloud-on-aws-now-available-on-aws-marketplace\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>John Nicholson asks <a href=\"https:\/\/thenicholson.com\/should-luck-factor-into-your-dr-bc-plans\/\">if &#8220;luck&#8221; should factor into your DR\/BC plans?<\/a>\u00a0Of course it shouldn&#8217;t, but you&#8217;d be amazed how often it does.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gestaltit.com\/podcast\/stephen\/storage-is-insecure\/\">This episode<\/a> of Gestalt IT&#8217;s On-Premise Podcast on the topic of storage being insecure got me thinking about some stuff.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of insecure, the Samba 4.16 release strips away more SMB 1, which can only be seen as good news. Read about that at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/03\/23\/samba_416_toctou_smb\/\">El Reg<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Still on data protection, <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2022\/03\/16\/kubernetes-data-protection\/\">Kubernetes data protection is being neglected<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ransomware: it&#8217;s something all the kids are getting into. Enrico wrote a great piece over at GigaOm about why <a href=\"https:\/\/gigaom.com\/2022\/03\/23\/ransomware-why-its-time-to-think-of-it-as-a-data-management-problem\/\">it should be thought of as a data management problem<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #69. Let&#8217;s get random. The recent-ish announcement of Apple&#8217;s Mac Studio made for some interesting news. The Verge looks at it here. When I was working with Veeam technologies, Anthony made things easier by doing a lot of the work for me. Now I work with VMC on AWS and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,874,135,25,1377,4],"tags":[801,573,848,1258,1322,787,1144,786,1383,1028],"class_list":["post-10362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-cloud","category-computers","category-dataprotection","category-vmconaws","category-vmware","tag-apple","tag-data","tag-random","tag-ransomware","tag-smb","tag-storage","tag-vmconaws","tag-vmware","tag-vmware-cloud","tag-vmwonaws"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362","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=10362"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10384,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362\/revisions\/10384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}