Random Short Take #79
Welcome to Random Short Take #79. Where did October go? Let’s get random. A lot of data protection stuff this time around, kicking off with Preston de Guise’s deep dive into Dynamic NAS Protection with PowerProtect Data Manager. Switching from NAS to cloud, W. Curtis Preston’s latest podcast went into some depth on using public and private cloud and how to protect it. We’re not done with backup and recovery yet though. This...
Random Short Take #78
Welcome to Random Short Take #78. We’re hurtling towards the silly season. Let’s get random. I mentioned verge.io in one of my recent short takes. Chris M. Evans has done the heavy lifting for me and written about test driving the verge.io Software-Defined Data Centre. Worth checking out. Speaking of SDDCs, this article on automating VM Migration AND their Firewall rules to VMC was super useful. I’ve been a Dropbox user for...
Random Short Take #74
Welcome to Random Short Take #74. Let’s get random. Chris Colotti put together a great article on VMware vSphere networking. It seems like a fairly fundamental issue, but one that I’ve seen plenty of times in the field. Speaking of VMware, if you’re working in the financial services sector and looking at VMware Cloud on AWS, this blog about compliance for financial services (Asia Pacific and Japan) might be just the thing for...
Random Short Take #73
Welcome to Random Short Take #73. Let’s get random. Two of my favourite things are Santa Cruz Skateboards and Backblaze, so this article on those two companies has also became a favourite thing – “We Were Stoked”: Santa Cruz Skateboards on Cloud Storage That Just Works I enjoyed this article from William Lam on ESXi running in unexpected places … I wrote about Datadobi’s StorageMAP a little while ago, and Chin-Fah adds his...
Random Short Take #72
This one is a little behind thanks to some work travel, but whatever. Let’s get random. Ethan Banks has some great advice for bloggers looking to load up on payola from their blood, sweat, and blogging tears. You can read his article on how to work with a sponsor for your blog here. I love Howard’s Explainer articles, and this one on Thunderbolt doesn’t fail to impress. Over at El Reg there’s word of problems for the Linux...