{"id":9268,"date":"2020-07-24T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=9268"},"modified":"2020-07-24T13:47:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T03:47:43","slug":"random-short-take-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #40. Quite a few players have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/friv\/numbers.fcgi?number=40\">worn 40 in the NBA<\/a>, including the flat-top king <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/b\/brickfr01.html\">Frank Brickowski<\/a>. But my favourite player to wear number 40 was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kempsh01.html\">Reign Man &#8211; Shawn Kemp<\/a>. So let\u2019s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delltechnologies.com\/en-au\/data-protection\/powerprotect-data-manager.htm\">Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager 19.5<\/a> was released in early July and Preston covered it pretty comprehensively <a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2020\/07\/13\/whats-new-in-powerprotect-data-manager-19-5\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of data protection software releases and enhancements, we&#8217;ve barely recovered from the excitement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veeam.com\/\">Veeam<\/a> v10 being released and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anthonyspiteri\">Anthony<\/a> is already talking about v11. More on that <a href=\"https:\/\/anthonyspiteri.net\/v11-veeamon-enhancements\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of Veeam, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hammondrhys\">Rhys<\/a> posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/rhyshammond.com\/veeam-nfs-backup-repository\/\">very detailed article<\/a> on setting up a Veeam backup repository on NFS using a Pure Storage FlashBlade environment.<\/li>\n<li>Sticking with the data protection theme, I penned <a href=\"https:\/\/gestaltit.com\/tech-talks\/druva\/penguinpunk\/onedrive-is-not-a-backup-it-should-be-backed-up\/\">a piece<\/a> over at <a href=\"https:\/\/gestaltit.com\/\">Gestalt IT<\/a> for Druva talking about OneDrive protection and why it&#8217;s important.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/opendrives.com\/\">OpenDrives<\/a> has some new gear available &#8211; you can read more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/blocksandfiles.com\/2020\/06\/26\/say-hello-to-opendrives-for-fast-nas\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The nice folks at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrocloud.com\/\">Spectro Cloud<\/a> recently announced that its first product is generally available. You can read the press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2020\/06\/24\/2052849\/0\/en\/Spectro-Cloud-Releases-Award-Winning-Enterprise-Hybrid-Cloud-Solution-for-Kubernetes-Infrastructure-Stack-Management.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Wiliam Lam put out a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtuallyghetto.com\/2020\/06\/passthrough-of-integrated-gpu-igpu-for-apple-mac-mini-2018.html\">great article<\/a> on passing through the integrated GPU on Apple Mac minis with ESXi 7.<\/li>\n<li>Time passes on, and Christian <a href=\"https:\/\/vninja.net\/2020\/07\/21\/vninja-10-years\/\">recently celebrated 10 years on his blog<\/a>, which I think is a worthy achievement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy Friday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #40. Quite a few players have worn 40 in the NBA, including the flat-top king Frank Brickowski. But my favourite player to wear number 40 was the Reign Man &#8211; Shawn Kemp. So let\u2019s get random. Dell EMC PowerProtect Data Manager 19.5 was released in early July and Preston covered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[874,25,1032,54,115,1303,5,1138,4],"tags":[801,976,940,1033,1304,963],"class_list":["post-9268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-dataprotection","category-druva","category-esxi","category-networker-backup","category-spectro-cloud","category-storage","category-veeam","category-vmware","tag-apple","tag-data-protection","tag-dell-emc","tag-druva","tag-spectro-cloud","tag-veeam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268","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=9268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9269,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}