{"id":9154,"date":"2020-05-13T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=9154"},"modified":"2020-05-13T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-12T23:26:16","slug":"random-short-take-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #36"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #36. Not a huge amount of players have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/friv\/numbers.cgi?number=36\">worn 36 in the NBA<\/a>, but Shaq did (at the end of his career), and Marcus Smart does. This one, though, goes out to one of my favourite players from the modern era, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wallara01.html\">Rasheed Wallace<\/a>. It seems like Boston is the common thread here. Might have something to do with those hall of fame players wearing numbers in the low 30s. Or it might be entirely unrelated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalecomputing.com\/\">Scale Computing<\/a> recently announced its all-NVMe HC3250DF as a new appliance targeting core data centre and edge computing use cases. It offers higher performance storage, networking and processing. You can read the press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scalecomputing.com\/press-releases\/scale-computing-launches-new-performance-tier-of-hc3-appliances-for-databases-and-vdi\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delltechnologies.com\/en-au\/storage\/powerstore-storage-appliance.htm\">Dell EMC PowerStore<\/a> has been announced. Chris Mellor covered the announcement <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2020\/05\/05\/dell-emc-powerstore-midrange-array-launch-analysis\/\">here<\/a>. I haven&#8217;t had time to dig into this yet, but I&#8217;m keen to learn more. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrismevans\">Chris Evans<\/a> also wrote about it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architecting.it\/blog\/dell-powerstore\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubrik.com\/en\">Rubrik<\/a> Andes 5.2 was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubrik.com\/en\/company\/newsroom\/press-releases\/20\/rubrik-andes-5-2-product-release\">recently announced<\/a>. You can read a wrap-up from Mellor <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2020\/04\/29\/rubrik-andes-5point2\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>StorCentric&#8217;s Nexsan recently announced the E-Series 32F Storage Platform. You can read the press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexsan.com\/press_releases\/storcentrics-nexsan-announces-the-e-series-32f-storage-platform-the-most-compact-high-density-qlc-ssd-solution-on-the-market\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In what can only be considered excellent news, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/backupbear\">Preston de Guise<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2020\/05\/12\/data-protection-ensuring-data-availability-2nd-edition\/\">has announced the availability of the second edition<\/a> of his book, &#8220;Data Protection: Ensuring Data Availability&#8221;. It will be available in a variety of formats, with the ebook format already being out. I bought the first edition a few times to give as a gift, and I&#8217;m looking forward to giving away a few copies of this one too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/\">Backblaze<\/a> B2 has been huge for the company, and Backblaze B2 with S3-compatible API access is even huger. Read more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-b2-s3-compatible-api\/\">here<\/a>. Speaking of Backblaze, it just released its hard dive stats for Q1, 2020. You can read more on that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2020\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CloudOasisAus\">Hal<\/a> recently upgraded his NUC-based home lab to vSphere 7. You can read more about the process <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudoasis.com.au\/2020\/05\/11\/vsphere-7-0-on-intel-nuc\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Jon recently <a href=\"https:\/\/faststorage.eu\/onefs-8-2-firmware-improvement-isi_upgrade_helper\/\">posted an article<\/a> on a new upgrade command available in OneFS. If you&#8217;re into Isilon, you might just be into this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #36. Not a huge amount of players have worn 36 in the NBA, but Shaq did (at the end of his career), and Marcus Smart does. This one, though, goes out to one of my favourite players from the modern era, Rasheed Wallace. It seems like Boston is the common [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[514,25,60,750,536,1012,972,893,5,1138],"tags":[976,940,1277,812,1013,1302,848,973,894,1284],"class_list":["post-9154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backblaze","category-dataprotection","category-emc-storage","category-hyperconverged","category-isilon","category-nexsan","category-rubrik","category-scalecomputing","category-storage","category-veeam","tag-data-protection","tag-dell-emc","tag-home-labs","tag-isilon","tag-nexsan","tag-powerstore","tag-random","tag-rubrik","tag-scale-computing","tag-vsphere-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154","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=9154"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9163,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions\/9163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}