{"id":9755,"date":"2021-03-08T14:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T04:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/?p=9755"},"modified":"2021-03-18T14:25:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T04:25:55","slug":"random-short-take-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/random-short-take-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Short Take #51"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #51. A few players have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/friv\/numbers.fcgi?number=51\">worn 51 in the NBA<\/a> including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/f\/fundela01.html\">Lawrence Funderburke<\/a> (I remember the Ohio State team wearing grey Nikes on TV and thinking that was a really cool sneaker colour &#8211; something I haven&#8217;t been able to shake over 25 years later). My pick is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/marjabo01.html\">Boban Marjanovi\u0107<\/a> though. Let\u2019s get random.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Folks don&#8217;t seem to spend much time making sure the fundamentals are sound, particularly when it comes to security. <a href=\"https:\/\/girl-germs.com\/?p=2324\">This article<\/a> from Jess provides a handy list of things you should be thinking about, and doing, when it comes to securing your information systems. As she points out, it&#8217;s just a starting point, but I think it should be seen as a bare minimum \/ entry level set of requirements that you could wrap around most environments out in the wild.<\/li>\n<li>Could there be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/02\/24\/aix_7_3_announced\/\">new version of AIX on the horizon<\/a>? Do I care? Not really. But I do sometimes yearn for the &#8220;simpler&#8221; times I spent working on a myriad of proprietary open systems, particularly when it came to storage array support.<\/li>\n<li>StorCentric recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexsan.com\/\">Nexsan<\/a> Assureon Cloud Edition. You can read the press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexsan.com\/press_releases\/storcentric-announces-nexsan-assureon-cloud-edition\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of press releases, Zerto continues to grow its portfolio of cloud protection technology. You can read more on that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerto.com\/press-releases\/zerto-customers-continue-expansion-of-data-protection-and-disaster-recovery-to-cloud-technology-in-2h-2020\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectrocloud.com\/\">Spectro Cloud<\/a> has been busy recently, and announced supporting for management of existing Kubernetes deployments. The news on that can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2021\/03\/01\/2184476\/0\/en\/Spectro-Cloud-Extends-Cluster-Management-for-Existing-Kubernetes-Deployments.html\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Are you a data hoarder? I am. <a href=\"https:\/\/datacenteroverlords.com\/2021\/02\/17\/the-three-levels-of-data-protection-for-data-hoarders\/\">This article<\/a> won&#8217;t help you quit data, but it will help you understand some of the things you can do to protect your data.<\/li>\n<li>So you&#8217;ve found yourself with a publicly facing vCenter? Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vmware.com\/security\/advisories\/VMSA-2021-0002.html\">this VMware security advisory<\/a>, and get patching ASAP. vCenter is the only thing you need to be patching either, but hopefully you knew that already.<\/li>\n<li>John Birmingham is one of my favourite writers. Not just for his novels with lots of things going bang, but also for his <a href=\"https:\/\/cheeseburgergothic.substack.com\/p\/road-food\/comments\">blog posts about food<\/a>. And things of that nature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Random Short Take #51. A few players have worn 51 in the NBA including Lawrence Funderburke (I remember the Ohio State team wearing grey Nikes on TV and thinking that was a really cool sneaker colour &#8211; something I haven&#8217;t been able to shake over 25 years later). My pick is Boban Marjanovi\u0107 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[874,25,1012,1303,5,4,1051],"tags":[1343,573,1345,1013,848,1062,1304,787,1248,1344,786],"class_list":["post-9755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-dataprotection","category-nexsan","category-spectro-cloud","category-storage","category-vmware","category-zerto","tag-aix","tag-data","tag-john-birmingham","tag-nexsan","tag-random","tag-security","tag-spectro-cloud","tag-storage","tag-storcentric","tag-unix","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755","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=9755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9756,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9755\/revisions\/9756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.penguinpunk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}