{"id":17838,"date":"2025-06-22T18:30:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T08:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=17838"},"modified":"2025-06-28T18:13:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T08:13:17","slug":"random-short-take-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-103\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #103"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random short take #103. Want news? You&#8217;re probably not in the right place. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My employer <a href=\"https:\/\/news.broadcom.com\/releases\/vmware-cloud-foundation-9-0\">announced the general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0<\/a> this week. There&#8217;s a handy blog post that covers what&#8217;s new <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/cloud-foundation\/2025\/06\/17\/whats-new-in-vmware-cloud-foundation-9-0\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of VCF 9.0, Frances Wong put together <a href=\"https:\/\/virtually2cents.com\/config-drift-in-vcf-9-0\/\">an excellent post on configuration drift<\/a> and how it&#8217;s being handled now. You want the community&#8217;s view? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/vninja.net\/2025\/06\/17\/vcf9-is-here-what-does-that-mean\/\">Christian Mohn&#8217;s article<\/a> on what it&#8217;s all about.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of product releases, Preston de Guise put together a great post on <a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2025\/05\/31\/whats-new-in-powerprotect-data-manager-19-19\/\">what&#8217;s new in PowerProtect Data Manager 19.19<\/a>. Yes, I know it&#8217;s been out a little while now.<\/li>\n<li>And continuing the theme of linking to people I&#8217;ve meant in real life, Chris M. Evans has put together an interesting post on NetApp and its foray into cloud. You can read more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecting.it\/blog\/ntap-cloud-experiment\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=ntap-cloud-experiment\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Switching gears slightly, a nice gentleman on the Internet reached out with information about a storage company called <a href=\"https:\/\/sycomp.com\">Sycomp<\/a> and what it&#8217;s doing with Google Cloud. Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/sycomp.com\/resource\/sycomp-boosts-google-cloud-with-intelligent-data-storage-solution\/?utm_content=333256741&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=linkedin&amp;hss_channel=lcp-85856\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In other press release news, Hammerspace <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerspace.com\/animationsinstitut-deploys-hammerspace\/\">announced an interesting collaboration with Animationsinstitut<\/a> a little while ago. I frequently wish I knew more about the media and entertainment infrastructure industry than I do.<\/li>\n<li>Jeff Geerling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffgeerling.com\/blog\/2025\/self-hosting-your-own-media-considered-harmful-updated\">posted an interesting article on his recent experience with YouTube and a video he posted about self-hosted media<\/a>. It&#8217;s great to see that modern media and platform companies have gone down the same path as their predecessors. Perish the thought we change our approach to keeping the corporations satisfied.<\/li>\n<li>Joey D&#8217;Antoni <a href=\"https:\/\/joeydantoni.com\/2025\/06\/05\/the-importance-of-having-in-person-user-group-meetings\/\">put together a great piece<\/a> on in-person user group meetings. It made me think about how some of the VMUG meetings I&#8217;ve been to over the years were great, particularly compared to the virtual ones I had to put together when we were in the midst of COVID. It&#8217;s tough to pull off, but when it comes together, it&#8217;s amazing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random short take #103. Want news? You&#8217;re probably not in the right place. Let&#8217;s get random. My employer announced the general availability of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 this week. There&#8217;s a handy blog post that covers what&#8217;s new here. Speaking of VCF 9.0, Frances Wong put together an excellent post on configuration drift and how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[874,25,14,1338,65,115,5,1455],"tags":[279,488,976,475,76,786,1287],"class_list":["post-17838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-dataprotection","category-dell","category-hammerspace","category-netapp","category-networker-backup","category-storage","category-sycomp","tag-cloud","tag-community","tag-data-protection","tag-netapp-2","tag-networker","tag-vmware","tag-vmware-cloud-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17838","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=17838"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17847,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17838\/revisions\/17847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}