{"id":10841,"date":"2022-12-15T10:15:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T00:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=10841"},"modified":"2022-12-15T10:03:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T00:03:23","slug":"random-short-take-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #81. Last one for the year, because who really wants to read this stuff over the holiday season? Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Curtis did a podcast on archive and retrieve as part of his &#8220;Backup to Basics&#8221; series. It&#8217;s something I feel pretty strongly about, so much so that I wrote a chapter in his book about it. You can listen to it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backupcentral.com\/what-is-archive-and-retrieve-backup-to-basics\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>More William Gibson content is coming to our screens, with the announcement that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cheeseburgergothic.substack.com\/p\/neuromancer-to-apple-tv\/comments\">Neuromancer is coming to Apple TV<\/a>. I hope it&#8217;s as well done as <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Peripheral\">The Peripheral<\/a>. Hat tip to John Birmingham for posting the news on his blog.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s been a while since I looked at Dell storage, but my friend Max wrote a great article over at Gestalt IT on <a href=\"https:\/\/gestaltit.com\/sponsored\/dell-technologies\/darkkavenger\/dell-powerstore-a-future-proof-modern-storage-solution\/\">Dell PowerStore<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>William Lam&#8217;s blog is a veritable fount of knowledge, and this piece on <a href=\"https:\/\/williamlam.com\/2022\/12\/esxi-advanced-kernel-settings-reference.html\">ESXi Advanced &amp; Kernel Settings Reference<\/a>\u00a0is great.<\/li>\n<li>I love Backblaze. Not in the sense that I want to marry the company, but I really like what the folks there do. And I really like the transparency with which they operate. This article giving <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-our-us-east-data-center\/\">a behind the scenes look at its US East Data Center<\/a>\u00a0is a fantastic example of that.<\/li>\n<li>In press release news, <a href=\"https:\/\/dh2i.com\/news\/dh2i-collaborates-with-red-hat-to-accelerate-the-delivery-of-intelligent-applications-across-the-multi-cloud\/\">DH2i has announced that it&#8217;s collaborating with Red Hat to accelerate the delivery of intelligent applications across the multi cloud<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In other press release news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20221209005087\/en\/Zerto-Cited-as-a-Contender-among-Data-Resilience-Solutions-Suites-by-Independent-Research-Firm\">Zerto has been cited as a contender among data resilience solutions suites by an independent research firm<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And, to &#8220;celebrate&#8221; 81 Random Short Takes (remember when I used to list my favourite NBA players and the numbers they wore?), let&#8217;s take a stroll down memory lane with two of my all-time, top 5, favourite NBA players &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gTBs1rqLtSk\">Kobe Bryant and Jalen Rose.<\/a>\u00a0The background for this video is explained by Jalen <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HErU0jdHZSk\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Take care of yourselves and each other, and I&#8217;ll hopefully see you all on the line or in person next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #81. Last one for the year, because who really wants to read this stuff over the holiday season? Let&#8217;s get random. Curtis did a podcast on archive and retrieve as part of his &#8220;Backup to Basics&#8221; series. It&#8217;s something I feel pretty strongly about, so much so that I wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[514,6,874,25,60,7,63,332,5,4,887,1051],"tags":[792,976,790,940,1300,1353,1147,848,787,786,991],"class_list":["post-10841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backblaze","category-basketball","category-cloud","category-dataprotection","category-emc-storage","category-humour","category-nba","category-off-topic","category-storage","category-vmware","category-vsphere","category-zerto","tag-backup","tag-data-protection","tag-dell","tag-dell-emc","tag-dh2i","tag-modern-data-protection","tag-nba","tag-random","tag-storage","tag-vmware","tag-zerto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841","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=10841"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10857,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10841\/revisions\/10857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}