{"id":8436,"date":"2019-09-06T16:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=8436"},"modified":"2019-09-06T15:52:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T05:52:55","slug":"random-short-take-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a semi-regular listicle of random news items that might be of some interest.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobhopkinson.com\/2019\/09\/04\/pure-storage-purity-5-3-qos-updates\/\">This is a great article<\/a> covering QoS enhancements in Purity 5.3. Speaking of Pure Storage I&#8217;m looking forward to attending <a href=\"https:\/\/conference.purestorage.com\/accelerate2019\/\">Pure\/\/Accelerate<\/a> in Austin in the next few weeks. I&#8217;ll be participating in a Storage Field Day Exclusive event as well &#8211; you can find more details on that <a href=\"https:\/\/techfieldday.com\/event\/pureaccelerate19\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>My friends at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalecomputing.com\/\">Scale Computing<\/a> have entered into an OEM agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acronis.com\/\">Acronis<\/a> to add more data protection and DR capabilities to the HC3 platform. You can read more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/scale_computing_and_acronis_form_technology_partnership_for_enhanced_data_protection_business_continuity_and_disaster_recovery\/prweb16546454.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commvault.com\/\">Commvault<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/commvault-acquires-hedvig-to-accelerate-its-strategic-vision-300911160.html\">just acquired Hedvig<\/a> for a pretty penny. It will be interesting to see how they bring them into the fold. <a href=\"https:\/\/techunplugged.io\/2019\/09\/05\/commvault-acquires-hedvig-for-225m-what-should-we-expect\/\">This article<\/a> from Max made for interesting reading.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dh2i.com\/\">DH2i<\/a> are presenting a webinar on September 10th at 11am Pacific, &#8220;On the Road Again &#8211; How to Secure Your Network for Remote User Access&#8221;. I&#8217;ve spoken to the people at DH2i in the past and they&#8217;re doing some really interesting stuff. If your timezone lines up with this, <a href=\"https:\/\/dh2i.com\/on-the-road-again-how-to-secure-your-network-for-remote-user-access\/\">check it out<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/justinwarren\/2019\/09\/03\/vmware-returns-to-its-roots-at-vmworld-2019\/#64027ccf798e\">This was some typically insightful coverage<\/a> of VMworld US from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jpwarren\">Justin Warren<\/a> over at Forbes.<\/li>\n<li>I caught up with Zerto while I was at VMworld US last week, and they talked to me about their VAIO announcement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpaul.me\/\">Justin Paul<\/a> did a good job of summarising it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpaul.me\/2019\/09\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-zertos-vaio-announcement\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of VMworld, William has posted links to the session videos &#8211; check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtuallyghetto.com\/2019\/08\/direct-playback-download-urls-for-all-vmworld-2019-us-sessions.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/products\/vsphere\/projectpacific.html\">Project Pacific<\/a> was big news at VMworld, and I really enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtuallifestyle.nl\/2019\/08\/will-vmware-project-pacific-help-customers-transition-to-kubernetes-smoothly\/\">this article<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitter.com\/jpiscaer\">Joep<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a semi-regular listicle of random news items that might be of some interest. This is a great article covering QoS enhancements in Purity 5.3. Speaking of Pure Storage I&#8217;m looking forward to attending Pure\/\/Accelerate in Austin in the next few weeks. I&#8217;ll be participating in a Storage Field Day Exclusive event as well &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,25,900,750,692,893,5,4,73,1051],"tags":[1208,901,693,1229,848,894,786,796,991],"class_list":["post-8436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commvault","category-dataprotection","category-hedvig","category-hyperconverged","category-pure-storage","category-scalecomputing","category-storage","category-vmware","category-vmworld","category-zerto","tag-commvault","tag-hedvig","tag-pure-storage-2","tag-pureaccelerate2019","tag-random","tag-scale-computing","tag-vmware","tag-vmworld","tag-zerto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436","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=8436"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8464,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8436\/revisions\/8464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}