{"id":11398,"date":"2024-11-21T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2024-11-21T10:53:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T00:53:15","slug":"random-short-take-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #99. I&#8217;m about to go on a brief holiday. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joey D&#8217;Antoni wants to know if you&#8217;ve been thinking about <a href=\"https:\/\/joeydantoni.com\/2024\/10\/17\/storing-files-in-your-databases-why-you-shouldnt-and-what-you-should-do-instead\/\">storing files in your databases? Here&#8217;s why you shouldn\u2019t, and what you should do instead<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s something that really irks me about this behaviour. It just seems so reckless, even in a world where reckless seems normal &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2024\/10\/17\/espn_fined_emergency_alert_sounds\/\">FCC fines be damned, ESPN misuses emergency alert tones yet again<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/explore\/2024\/11\/12\/vmware-explore-video-library-dive-in\/\">good news out of VMware Explore Barcelona<\/a> this year, including Christian managing to <a href=\"https:\/\/vninja.net\/2024\/11\/08\/rickrolling-wifi-at-vmware-explore-barcelona-2024\/\">rickroll some WiFi<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Curtis recently published a podcast episode and supporting article on <a href=\"https:\/\/backupcentral.com\/dr-testing-common-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them\/\">DR testing: common mistakes and how to avoid them<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Not getting enough press release links? Well Datadobi has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/datadobi.com\/blog\/storagemap-v7-1-launch-adds-more-solutions-to-solve-unstructured-data-challenges\/\">StorageMAP 7.1 and it adds more solutions to solve unstructured data challenges<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sc24.supercomputing.org\">SC24<\/a> is on this week, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/cerabyte-discusses-use-cases-for-its-ceramic-data-storage-solution-at-sc24-302298375.html\">Cerabyte will be discussing use cases for its Ceramic Data Storage Solution<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>More PR news? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20241112069177\/en\/VDURA-Unveils-Next-Gen-Data-Platform-with-Breakthrough-AI-and-HPC-Performance\">VDURA has unveiled its Next-Gen Data Platform with improved AI and HPC performance<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Rounding out the press release barrage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20241114167051\/en\/Hammerspace-Transforms-GPU-Computing-Infrastructure-as-First-to-Unlock-a-New-Tier-of-Ultra-Fast-Shared-Storage\">Hammerspace talks about unlocking a new tier of ultra-fast shared storage<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #99. I&#8217;m about to go on a brief holiday. Let&#8217;s get random. Joey D&#8217;Antoni wants to know if you&#8217;ve been thinking about storing files in your databases? Here&#8217;s why you shouldn\u2019t, and what you should do instead. There&#8217;s something that really irks me about this behaviour. It just seems so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1293,1338,1125,5,4],"tags":[1432,573,1282,1139,1339,1127,581,1441,1400],"class_list":["post-11398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dataprotection","category-datadobi","category-hammerspace","category-panasas","category-storage","category-vmware","tag-cerabyte","tag-data","tag-datadobi","tag-disaster-recovery","tag-hammerspace","tag-panasas","tag-sql","tag-vdura","tag-vmware-explore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","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=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11406,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions\/11406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}