{"id":8060,"date":"2019-06-14T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T23:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=8060"},"modified":"2019-06-14T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T22:58:07","slug":"random-short-take-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few links to some random news items and other content that I recently found interesting. You might find them interesting too. Episode 16 &#8211; please enjoy these semi-irregular updates.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalecomputing.com\/\">Scale Computing<\/a> has been doing a bit in the healthcare sector lately &#8211; you can read news about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/scale_computing_simplifies_it_improves_efficiency_and_fortifies_rapid_disaster_recovery_for_healthcare_providers\/prweb16335361.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This was a <a href=\"https:\/\/sixcolors.com\/post\/2019\/06\/the-good-the-bad-and-the-pricey-apples-wwdc-announcements\/\">nice roundup of the news from Apple&#8217;s recent WWDC<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bleedsixcolors\/\">Six Colors<\/a>. Hat tip to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFoskett\">Stephen Foskett<\/a> for the link. Speaking of WWDC news, you may have been wondering what happened to all of your purchased content with the imminent demise of iTunes on macOS. It&#8217;s still a little fuzzy, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalmusicnews.com\/2019\/06\/04\/itunes-purchased-content\/\">this article<\/a> attempts to shed some light on things. Spoiler: you should be okay (for the moment).<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dropbox.com\/tech\/2019\/06\/your-system-is-not-a-sports-team\/\">great post<\/a> on the Dropbox Tech Blog from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesacowling\">James Cowling<\/a> discussing the mission versus the system.<\/li>\n<li>The more things change, the more they remain the same. For years I had a Windows PC running Media Center and recording TV. I used IceTV as the XMLTV-based program guide provider. I then started to mess about with some HDHomeRun devices and the PC died and I went back to a traditional DVR arrangement. Plex now has DVR capabilities and it has been doing a reasonable job with guide data (and recording in general), but they&#8217;ve decided it&#8217;s all a bit too hard to curate guides and want users (at least in Australia) to <a href=\"https:\/\/support.plex.tv\/articles\/using-an-xmltv-guide\/\">use XMLTV-based guides<\/a> instead. So I&#8217;m back to using IceTV with Plex. They&#8217;re offering a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icetv.com.au\/free-trial\">free trial at the moment for Plex users<\/a>, and setup instructions are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icetv.com.au\/plex-setup\/\">here<\/a>. No, I don&#8217;t get paid if you click on the links.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of axe-throwing, the Cohesity team in Queensland is organising a social event for Friday 21st June from 2 &#8211; 4 pm at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maniax.com.au\/\">Maniax Axe Throwing<\/a> in Newstead. You can get in contact with <a href=\"mailto:k.c@cohesity.com\">Casey<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to register.<\/li>\n<li>VeeamON Forum Australia is coming up soon. It will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Sydney on July 24th and should be a great event. You can find out more information and register for it <a href=\"https:\/\/go.veeam.com\/veeamon-forum-2019-sydney\">here<\/a>. The Vanguards are also planning something cool, so hopefully we&#8217;ll see you there.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Veeam, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyspiteri\">Anthony Spiteri<\/a> recently published his longest title in the Virtualization is Life! catalogue &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/anthonyspiteri.net\/orchestration-of-nsx-by-terraform-for-cloud-connect-replication-with-vcloud-director\/\">Orchestration Of NSX By Terraform For Cloud Connect Replication With vCloud Director<\/a>. It&#8217;s a great article, and worth checking out.<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s a lot of talk and slideware devoted to digital transformation, and a lot of it is rubbish. But I found <a href=\"http:\/\/storagegaga.com\/the-heart-of-digital-transformation-is\/\">this article<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/storagegaga\">Chin-Fah<\/a> to be particularly insightful.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are a few links to some random news items and other content that I recently found interesting. You might find them interesting too. Episode 16 &#8211; please enjoy these semi-irregular updates. Scale Computing has been doing a bit in the healthcare sector lately &#8211; you can read news about that here. 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