{"id":9182,"date":"2020-05-29T10:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=9182"},"modified":"2020-05-29T09:50:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T23:50:21","slug":"random-short-take-37","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-37\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #37"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #37. Not a huge amount of players have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/friv\/numbers.fcgi?number=37\">worn 37 in the NBA<\/a>, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/a\/artesro01.html\">Metta World Peace<\/a> did a few times. When he wasn&#8217;t wearing 15, and other odd numbers. But I digress. Let&#8217;s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pavilion.io\/\">Pavilion Data<\/a> recently added S3 capability to its platform. It&#8217;s based on a variant of <a href=\"https:\/\/min.io\/\">MinIO<\/a>, and adds an interesting dimension to what Pavilion Data has traditionally offered. Mellor provided some good coverage <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2020\/05\/28\/pavilion-data-s3-object-storage\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of object storage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delltechnologies.com\/en-us\/index.htm\">Dell EMC<\/a> recently announced ECS 3.5. You can read more on that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.storagereview.com\/news\/dell-emc-ecs-3-5-released\">here<\/a>. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dellemc.com\/fr-mg\/collaterals\/unauth\/white-papers\/products\/storage-1\/h14071-ecs-architectural-guide-wp.pdf\">architectural white paper<\/a> has been updated to reflect the new version as well.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Dell EMC, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/backupbear\">Preston<\/a> posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2020\/05\/26\/using-networker-with-data-domain-retention-lock\/\">handy article on Data Domain Retention Lock and NetWorker<\/a>. Have you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/Data-Protection-Ensuring-Availability-dp-0367256770\/dp\/0367256770\/\">pre-ordered Preston&#8217;s book<\/a> yet? I&#8217;ll keep asking until you do.<\/li>\n<li>Online events are all the rage at the moment, and two noteworthy events are coming up shortly: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.purestorage.com\/accelerate.html\">Pure\/\/Accelerate<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veeam.com\/veeamon\">VeeamON 2020<\/a>. Speaking of online events, we&#8217;re running a virtual BNEVMUG next week. Details on that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/brisbane-virtual-vmug-june-2020\/\">here<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerto.com\/zertocon\/\">ZertoCON Virtual<\/a> is also a thing.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Pure Storage, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codyhosterman.com\/2020\/05\/is-nvme-of-ready-for-prime-time-with-vsphere-7\/\">this article<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/codyhosterman\">Cody Hosterman<\/a> on NVMe and vSphere 7 is lengthy, but definitely worth the read.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t recall whether I mentioned that this white paper\u00a0 covering VCD on VCF 3.9 is available now, and I can&#8217;t be bothered checking. So <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/cloudprovider\/2020\/05\/vcd-on-vcf-3-9-white-paper-update-is-available.html\">here it is<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m not just a fan of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/\">Backblaze<\/a> because of its cool consumer backup solution and object storage platform, I&#8217;m also a big fan because of its blog. Articles like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backblaze.com\/blog\/how-to-virtually-onboard-new-hires\/\">this one<\/a> are a great example of companies doing corporate culture right (at least from what I can see).<\/li>\n<li>I have the impression that <a href=\"https:\/\/datadobi.com\/\">Datadobi<\/a> has been doing some cool stuff recently, and <a href=\"https:\/\/datadobi.com\/post_news\/lowell-service-center-gives-credit-where-credit-is-due-attributes-flawlessly-executed-data-migration-to-datadobi\/\">this story<\/a> certainly seems to back it up.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #37. Not a huge amount of players have worn 37 in the NBA, but Metta World Peace did a few times. When he wasn&#8217;t wearing 15, and other odd numbers. But I digress. Let&#8217;s get random. Pavilion Data recently added S3 capability to its platform. It&#8217;s based on a variant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[514,534,25,1293,950,60,115,1118,692,5,1138,4,887],"tags":[572,907,811,1282,940,953,76,1119,693,1011,1306,848,963,1307],"class_list":["post-9182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-backblaze","category-data-domain","category-dataprotection","category-datadobi","category-ecs","category-emc-storage","category-networker-backup","category-pavilion-data","category-pure-storage","category-storage","category-veeam","category-vmware","category-vsphere","tag-backblaze-2","tag-bnevmug","tag-data-domain","tag-datadobi","tag-dell-emc","tag-ecs","tag-networker","tag-pavilion-data","tag-pure-storage-2","tag-pureaccelerate","tag-pureaccelerate2020","tag-random","tag-veeam","tag-veeamon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182","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=9182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9184,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9182\/revisions\/9184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}