{"id":10813,"date":"2022-11-14T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=10813"},"modified":"2022-11-12T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T08:40:00","slug":"random-short-take-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #80. Lots of press release news this week and some parochial book recommendations. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My friend Al has been back in the lab, and has put together some really useful how-to articles on <a href=\"https:\/\/alarasheedblog.wordpress.com\/2022\/11\/02\/how-to-upgrade-from-esxi-7-to-8\/\">how to upgrade from ESXi 7 to\u00a08<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/alarasheedblog.wordpress.com\/2022\/11\/02\/deploying-vmware-vcenter-8\/\">deploying VMware vCenter\u00a08<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In press release news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purestorage.com\">Pure Storage<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purestorage.com\/company\/newsroom\/press-releases\/pure-expands-as-a-service-model-across-portworx-offerings.html\">has expanded its as-a-Service model across the full suite of Portworx offerings<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The nice folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/storpool.com\">StorPool Storage<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/storpool.com\/news\/cloudstack-collaboration-conference-2022\/\">have announced the company is a Diamond sponsor at CloudStack Collaboration Conference 2022<\/a>\u00a0this week.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verge.io\">Verge.io<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verge.io\/blog\/verge-io-appoints-mike-wall-chairman-of-the-board\">has announced the appointment of Mike Wall to Chairman of the Board<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tachyum.com\/media\/press-releases\/2022\/10\/04\/tachyum-unveils-details-of-architecture-and-prodigy-design-in-overview-white-paper\/\">Tachyum has unveiled details of its architecture and prodigy design in an overview white paper<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Have you heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpconline.org\/events\/world-digital-preservation-day\">World Digital Preservation Day<\/a>? I hadn&#8217;t, but it sounds pretty cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/hammerspace.com\">Hammerspace<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20221110005350\/en\/Hammerspace-Shatters-Expectations-for-High-Performance-File-Data-Architectures\">has announced that it&#8217;s shattering expectations for high-performance file data architectures<\/a>. I like what Hammerspace is doing, and I&#8217;m keen to dig in some more when I have a moment.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m a little bit younger than JB, and spent my youth in a town west of BrisVegas, but I&#8217;m always interested to read about what my adopted hometown was like in the Eighties. This article &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheeseburgergothic.substack.com\/p\/sweaty-moustache-dandruff-super-goth\">Sweaty moustache dandruff, super-goth girl and $750 for a beer. Brisbane in the Before Times<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; was fantastic. And if you&#8217;re curious about Brisbane, I heartily recommend reading anything by Nick Earls, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_McGahan\">Andrew McGahan<\/a>, and John Birmingham. And while I&#8217;m recommending books, it&#8217;s hard to go past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/books\/pig-city-revisited-brisbane-writer-andrew-stafford-updates-tome-on-music-and-politics-20140731-zvozq.html\">Andrew Stafford&#8217;s &#8220;Pig City&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #80. Lots of press release news this week and some parochial book recommendations. Let&#8217;s get random. My friend Al has been back in the lab, and has put together some really useful how-to articles on how to upgrade from ESXi 7 to\u00a08\u00a0and deploying VMware vCenter\u00a08. In press release news, Pure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[874,1338,692,5,1178],"tags":[613,1406,1339,693,1179,1405,1396,151,1404],"class_list":["post-10813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-hammerspace","category-pure-storage","category-storage","category-storpool","tag-brisbane","tag-brisvegas","tag-hammerspace","tag-pure-storage-2","tag-storpool","tag-tachyum","tag-verge-io","tag-vsphere","tag-vsphere-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813","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=10813"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10819,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10813\/revisions\/10819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}