{"id":17901,"date":"2025-08-08T11:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=17901"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T01:28:54","slug":"random-short-take-104","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-104\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #104"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random short take #104. Want news? This is where news goes to die. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting with a little how-to article from Kad &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/topvcf.com\/2025\/07\/11\/installing-vmware-tools-the-different-methods\/\">the different ways to install VMware Tools<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And still on Broadcom, here&#8217;s a handy article from Chris on <a href=\"https:\/\/childebrandt42.blog\/2025\/07\/22\/the-future-of-vmware-updates-how-to-survive-the-broadcom-download-token-shift\/\">download tokens and VMware updates<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2025\/07\/keep-an-active-copy-of-your-icloud-drive-and-icloud-synced-photos-library\/\">one view on how to backup your iCloud data<\/a>. This stuff keeps me awake at night.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of consumer data in the cloud, <a href=\"https:\/\/dropbox.tech\/infrastructure\/seventh-generation-server-hardware\">here&#8217;s a neat article from Dropbox on its seventh-generation server hardware<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Switching gears slightly, here&#8217;s a great article from Chin-Fah on <a href=\"http:\/\/storagegaga.com\/intelligent-data-movement-and-data-placement-dictate-the-future-of-ai-data-infrastructure\/\">intelligent data movement and data placement and how it will dictate the future of AI data infrastructure<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Still on AI, it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2025\/08\/03\/capacity_planning_concern_datacenter_ops\/\">becoming a pain for data centre capacity planning<\/a> according to El Reg.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of storing things, Brian Moses <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.briancmoses.com\/2025\/08\/a-3d-printed-12-bay-atx-nas-case-yes-please.html\">3D-printed a NAS case<\/a>. Like, a pretty big one.<\/li>\n<li>In press release news, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/the-active-archive-alliance-welcomes-bdt-media-automation-to-the-organization-302493780.html\">the Active Archive Alliance has welcomed BDT Media Automation to the organisation<\/a>. In other PR news, Hammerspace has <a href=\"https:\/\/hammerspace.com\/hammerspace-announces-mlperf-v2-0-benchmark-results-demonstrates-the-simplicity-performance-and-efficiency-of-tier-0\/\">announced some impressive benchmarking results<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random short take #104. Want news? This is where news goes to die. Let&#8217;s get random. Starting with a little how-to article from Kad &#8211; the different ways to install VMware Tools. And still on Broadcom, here&#8217;s a handy article from Chris on download tokens and VMware updates. Here&#8217;s one view on how to backup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[874,25,1077,54,1338,5,127,4],"tags":[1104,1105,1458,976,1078,1339,848,787,585,786,99],"class_list":["post-17901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-dataprotection","category-dropbox","category-esxi","category-hammerspace","category-storage","category-vcenter","category-vmware","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data-centre","tag-data-protection","tag-dropbox","tag-hammerspace","tag-random","tag-storage","tag-update","tag-vmware","tag-vmware-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901","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=17901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17902,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901\/revisions\/17902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}