{"id":8208,"date":"2019-07-11T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T20:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=8208"},"modified":"2019-07-10T08:47:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T22:47:20","slug":"random-short-take-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some links to some random news items and other content that I recently found interesting. You might find them interesting too. Episode 18 \u2013 buckle up kids! It&#8217;s all happening.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cohesity.com\/\">Cohesity<\/a> added support for Active Directory protection with version 6.3 of the DataPlatform. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattallford\">Matt<\/a> covered it pretty comprehensively <a href=\"https:\/\/virtualtassie.com\/2019\/cohesity-dataplatform-6-3-active-directory-backup-and-recovery\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Cohesity, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DemitasseNZ\">Alastair<\/a> wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/demitasse.co.nz\/2019\/06\/starting-out-with-the-cohesity-powershell-module\/\">this article<\/a> on getting started with the Cohesity PowerShell Module.<\/li>\n<li>In keeping with the data protection theme (hey, it&#8217;s what I&#8217;m into), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupcentral.com\/microsoft-and-salesforce-prove-they-cant-be-trusted-with-backups\/\">here&#8217;s a great article<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WCPreston\">W. Curtis Preston<\/a> on SaaS data protection, and what you need to consider to not become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/07\/05\/musey_v_google_lawsuit\/\">another cautionary tale on the Internet<\/a>. Curtis has written a lot about data protection over the years, and you could do a lot worse than reading what he has to say. And that&#8217;s not just because he signed a book for me.<\/li>\n<li>Did you ever stop and think just how insecure some of the things that you put your money into are? It&#8217;s a little scary. Shell are doing some stuff with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybera.com\/\">Cybera<\/a> to improve things. Read more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybera.com\/cybera-ensures-shell-network-readiness-for-outdoor-emv\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I used to work with Vincent, and he&#8217;s a super smart guy. I&#8217;ve been at him for years to start blogging, and he&#8217;s started to put out some articles. He&#8217;s very good at taking complex topics and distilling them down to something that&#8217;s easy to understand. Here&#8217;s his <a href=\"https:\/\/ranchh.wordpress.com\/2019\/07\/01\/how-to-understand-vrealize-automation-configuration\/\">summary of VMware vRealize Automation<\/a> configuration.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/networkingnerd\">Tom&#8217;s<\/a> take on some <a href=\"https:\/\/networkingnerd.net\/2019\/07\/05\/what-happens-when-the-internet-breaks\/\">recent CloudFlare outages<\/a> makes for good reading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cloud.google.com\/\">Google Cloud<\/a> has announced it&#8217;s acquiring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elastifile.com\/\">Elastifile<\/a>. That part of the business doesn&#8217;t seem to be as brutal as the broader Alphabet group when it comes to acquiring and discarding companies, and I&#8217;m hoping that the good folks at Elastifile are looked after. You can read more on that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/07\/09\/google-to-acquire-cloud-storage-company-elastifile.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of people are getting upset with terms like &#8220;disaggregated HCI&#8221;. Chris Mellor does a bang up job explaining the <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2019\/07\/04\/hci-ci-composable-explainer\/\">differences between the various architectures here<\/a>. It&#8217;s my belief that there&#8217;s a place for all of this, and assuming that one architecture will suit every situation is a little naive. But what do I know?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some links to some random news items and other content that I recently found interesting. You might find them interesting too. Episode 18 \u2013 buckle up kids! It&#8217;s all happening. Cohesity added support for Active Directory protection with version 6.3 of the DataPlatform. Matt covered it pretty comprehensively here. Speaking of Cohesity, Alastair [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[874,837,25,1032,987,5],"tags":[1225,832,1222,976,1033,988,1173,884,848,1062,528,786],"class_list":["post-8208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-cohesity","category-dataprotection","category-druva","category-elastifile","category-storage","tag-cloudflare","tag-cohesity","tag-cybera","tag-data-protection","tag-druva","tag-elastifile","tag-google","tag-hci","tag-random","tag-security","tag-vexpert","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208","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=8208"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8231,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8208\/revisions\/8231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}