{"id":8708,"date":"2019-12-20T05:00:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T19:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=8708"},"modified":"2019-12-19T19:31:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T09:31:31","slug":"random-short-take-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my semi-regular, random news post in a short format. This is #27. You&#8217;d think it would be hard to keep naming them after basketball players, and it is. None of my favourite players ever wore 27, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/barnema01.html\">Marvin Barnes<\/a> did surface as a really interesting story, particularly when it comes to effective communication with colleagues. Happy holidays too, as I&#8217;m pretty sure this will be the last one of these posts I do this year. I&#8217;ll try and keep it short, as you&#8217;ve probably got stuff to do.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/12\/06\/on_call\/\">This story<\/a> of serious failure on El Reg had me in stitches.<\/li>\n<li>I really enjoyed this article by Raj Dutt (over at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cohesity.com\/blog\/\">Cohesity&#8217;s blog<\/a>) on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cohesity.com\/blog\/no-compromises-recover-your-data-predictably\/\">recovery predictability<\/a>. As an industry we talk an awful lot about speeds and feeds and supportability, but sometimes I think we forget about keeping it simple and making sure we can get our stuff back as we expect.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of data protection, I wrote some articles for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.druva.com\/\">Druva<\/a> about, well, data protection and things of that nature. You can read them <a href=\"https:\/\/gestaltit.com\/category\/tech-talks\/druva\/druva-fall-2019\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There have been some pretty important CBT-related patches released by VMware recently. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyspiteri\">Anthony<\/a> has provided a handy summary <a href=\"https:\/\/anthonyspiteri.net\/important-esxi-6-0-and-6-7-patch-release-cbt-fixes-and-more\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Everything&#8217;s an opinion until people actually do it, but I thought <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20191205005140\/en\/Leaseweb-USA-Research-Reveals-Thirds-Organizations-Cite\">this research on cloud adoption from Leaseweb USA<\/a> was interesting. I didn&#8217;t expect to see everyone putting their hands up and saying they&#8217;re all in on public cloud, but I was also hopeful that we, as an industry, hadn&#8217;t made things as unclear as they seem to be. Yay, hybrid!<\/li>\n<li>Site sponsor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storone.com\/\">StorONE<\/a> has partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdata.com\/\">Tech Data Global Computing Components<\/a> to offer an All-Flash Array as a Service solution.<\/li>\n<li>Backblaze has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backing-up-the-death-star-how-cloud-storage-explains-the-rise-of-skywalker\/\">done a nice job<\/a> of talking about data protection and cloud storage through the lens of Star Wars.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/superuser.com\/questions\/332139\/how-to-remove-word-heading-style-without-losing-the-formatting\">This tip<\/a> on removing particular formatting in Microsoft Word documents really helped me out recently. Yes I know Word is awful.<\/li>\n<li>Someone was nice enough to give me an acknowledgement for helping review a non-fiction book once. Now I&#8217;ve managed to get a character named after me in one of John Birmingham&#8217;s epics. You can read it out of context <a href=\"https:\/\/cheeseburgergothic.com\/show\/6962\">here<\/a>. And if you&#8217;re into supporting good authors on Patreon &#8211; then check out JB&#8217;s page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/johnbirmingham\">here<\/a>. He&#8217;s a good egg, and his literary contributions to the world have been fantastic over the years. I don&#8217;t say this just because we live in the same city either.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my semi-regular, random news post in a short format. This is #27. You&#8217;d think it would be hard to keep naming them after basketball players, and it is. 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