When we announced our “Get Away to VMworld” contest, we knew it would be popular. But we had no idea that it would spark interest from so many people! We are overwhelmed by the response, with more than 70 entries, and by the support from our friends at Symantec, Xsigo, Zetta, and Veeam. It has been so successful, many are asking us to do it again for future shows, and not just VMworld!

The Entries

There were many excellent entries among the 70+ submitted. Thank you! In fact, more than half were judged worthy of the trip by at least one voter, and a dozen got one or more “top choice” nods.

This made the selection especially difficult. Each entry was judged on its own merit after identifying information was removed, and judges were careful to focus on the ideas presented rather than trying to guess the identities of individuals. Although we reserved the right to eliminate “budget-breaking” entries, we did not have to resort to that. The two picked won outright on straight votes.

Voting was handled by the awesome Gestalt IT Field Day delegates. This most-excellent bunch were themselves selected based on their thought leadership in the areas of virtualization, storage, networking, and enterprise systems administration and are well worth watching! They looked for someone like themselves: Committed to giving back to the IT community. If you’re interested in learning more about them, please check out the lists from San Jose, Boston, and Seattle. And watch two weeks after VMworld as our first-ever Networking Field Day is held!

Thanks so much for entering! We wish we could send everyone; maybe the success of this contest will allow us to do more in the future.

The Winners

Although many of the top finishers deserved to win, we are very pleased with the results of the voting. Like many of the entrants, they promised to “pay it forward” to an under-served group. We see many similarities among the top finishers, in fact, but these two must have stood out just enough to draw top votes from our panel.

Luigi Danakos

Luigi is becoming more and more well-known in technical circles, tweeting as @NerdBlurt and blogging under that name as well. He promises to blog more content focused on VMware beginners, as well as kickstarting a program for techies to give back to children in need. We’ll let him explain that part on his blog!

Allan Ruiz

Allan noted the lack of Spanish-language VMware content and Central-American community, and has promised to fill this gap. He tweets as @AllRuiz. We look forward to hearing all Allan is able to bring home from VMworld!

Thank You, Symantec, Xsigo, Zetta, and Veeam!

We want to take a moment to recognize Symantec, Xsigo, Zetta, and Veeam and thank them for sponsoring this contest. It would not be possible without their support. We encourage you to stop by at the show, check out what they have at their booths, and thank them for their help making this happen.

Everyone Wins! Join Us At VMworld!

Look for Stephen Foskett at VMworld! FCoTR Lives!

We love VMworld, and really look forward to seeing you there! Even if you didn’t enter our contest, we’ve got a special prize for you: VMware has generously extended a special discount code to Gestalt IT readers, allowing you to register at the early bird rate! That’s $1495, or $250 off the regular price!

Here’s how to do it!

1. Go to http://vmworld2010.com/registration.jspa.
2. If you have a vmworld.com account or attended VMworld in 2009, use the “Existing VMworld Account” section. If you do not have an existing VMworld account, please create an account and then continue with the registration process.
3. Please enter “gestaltIT” as your registration code! (note the capitalization and spacing!)

When you’re at VMworld, keep an eye out for Stephen Foskett and the rest of the Gestalt IT and Tech Field Day crew. We’ll have some special gifts for our friends, and we’ve been told about some great events we can invite you to!

One More Thing

Gestalt IT is a community effort. If you’d like to start blogging, please email “editor” at our domain. We welcome guest posts!

And if your company would like to support this community effort, please contact us as well. As you can see, engaging directly with the community really helps you stand out from the crowd!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2010. | Announcing the Winners of our Get Away to VMworld Contest!
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Last week we announced the Gestalt IT “Get Away to VMworld” Contest and have been overwhelmed by the response. We’ve had blog posts, tweets, comments, and (most importantly) three dozen entries in the contest so far.

But one thing was getting us down: The entries were excellent but we could select only one winner. So we headed back to the old address book and contacted some more friendly companies, asking if they’d like to join the effort.

Two Winners!

Today we’re announcing two major bits of news regarding our VMworld contest:

1. The deadline to enter has been moved from tonight to Thursday night, August 12. The awarding of the winner has also been moved, to Friday, August 13.
2. We’re moving the deadline because we’re giving away a second trip! Thanks to two wonderful additional sponsors, Zetta and Veeam, we have the resources to pick two winners and send them both to VMworld!

How To Enter

Ok, so how can you enter this contest? Here are the simple steps:

1. Consider how attending VMworld would help you and the broader community
2. Fill out the contest entry form
3. Plan on stopping by the Symantec, Xsigo, Zetta, and Veeam booths at the show and thanking them for their support
4. Consider publicizing the contest by sharing this article with friends and associates
5. Consider subscribing to Gestalt IT with RSS, by email, on Twitter, or in iTunes
6. Consider supporting DonorsChoose.org and donating your swag to school kids in need

We look forward to hearing from you!

We have postponed the entry deadline to Thursday, August 12 and the selection of the winner to Friday, August 13! Follow @GestaltIT on Twitter to watch the selection live at noon Pacific time!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2010. | “Get Away to VMworld” Contest: Enhanced and Extended!
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We are pleased to announce the winners of our Newsletter Contest! Instead of a single prize, we decided to give out three!

Here are our three lucky winners:

• Lawrence L won Microsoft Windows 7, Home Premium
• Luigi D won Microsoft Windows 7, Home Premium
• Andrew F won Microsoft Office 2010, Home and Student Family Pack

If you haven’t already signed up, we encourage you to give our site newsletter a try. It features special information not presented on the web site. And we’ll run more contests in the future!

You might also be interested in our “Get Away to VMworld” contest!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2010. | Congratulations to our Newsletter Contest Winners!
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Storage virtualization has become a central component of the modern data center, and the annual VMworld gathering in San Francisco has become the central event for virtualization-related companies. Although focused on VMware, the conference draws many companies. And the labs and sessions are really awesome! But not everyone can attend this must-go event. It’s fairly expensive ($1745 to register!) and reasonable airfare to SFO is offset by crazy hotel prices.

We at Gestalt IT want to help deserving folks get to this conference. We already paid for airfare for the winner of the Boche.net pass giveaway, but we can do more. So we contacted some of our favorite technology companies about sponsoring a contest to send another deserving person to the show!

Update: We’ve Enhanced and Extended the contest!

The Contest: Get Away to VMworld

Here’s the deal: Thanks to our generous sponsors (Xsigo, Symantec, Zetta, and Veeam), we’ll pay airfare, hotel, and registration for two lucky and deserving winners out there to attend VMworld San Francisco 2010! That’s right – you get to go to VMworld for free!

Our travel agent will arrange airfare and hotel and we’ll get you set up with a full conference pass, giving you access to everything the show has to offer. Sound good?

The Catch: Pay It Forward

There’s always a catch, right? Inspired by winner Greg Stuart‘s desire to contribute to the community, we’re not just going to pick a winner at random. We’re going to pick the person who presents the best case for themselves.

Entrants must explain how they plan to “pay it forward” if they get to go to VMworld. Will you start a blog? Write some tutorials? Contribute to a forum or online community? Present to your local VMUG? Get creative and spread the wealth of knowledge you get from the event!

Our panel of judges is made up of none other than the most-excellent roster of past Tech Field Day delegates! They’ve proven themselves to be independent-minded and knowledgeable, and we’re sure that they will pick the best entries!

Thank You, Symantec, Xsigo, Zetta, and Veeam!

We want to take a moment to recognize Symantec and Xsigo and thank them for sponsoring this contest. It would not be possible without their support. We encourage you to stop by at the show, check out what they have at their booths, and thank them for their help making this happen. Both have some cool stuff up their sleeves, and are well-worth checking out!

Update: Zetta and Veeam have thrown in their support, allowing us to select two winners! They deserve special thanks, too!

One More Thing

If you look around at technology-oriented shows, one thing is very clear: The field of techies isn’t all that diverse. We need to work harder to attract a wider group of young people to study science, technology, engineering, and math. That’s why we’ve also made a donation through Donors Choose to a cool classroom project in Arizona that teaches engineering to girls through robotics. We encourage you to support this and other “STEM” projects in your local schools!

We’ve also suggested that you Donate Your Swag to School Kids In Need, as suggested by Kevin Houston. When you get home from VMworld, consider filling up the bags you get with school supplies and bringing them to your local school building. I’m sure they can find someone who needs the help!

How To Enter

Ok, so how can you enter this contest? Here are the simple steps:

1. Consider how attending VMworld would help you and the broader community
2. Fill out the contest entry form
3. Plan on stopping by the Symantec, Xsigo, Zetta, and Veeam booths at the show and thanking them for their support
4. Consider publicizing the contest by sharing this article with friends and associates
5. Consider subscribing to Gestalt IT with RSS, by email, on Twitter, or in iTunes
6. Consider supporting DonorsChoose.org and donating your swag to school kids in need

We look forward to hearing from you!

Update: With two more sponsors, Zetta and Veeam, we have postponed the entry deadline to Thursday, August 12 and the selection of the winner to Friday, August 13! Follow @GestaltIT on Twitter to watch the selection live at noon Pacific time!

The Fine Print

There’s always some fine print, right? Here’s ours:

Contests like this aren’t allowed everywhere. This one is void in locations where it would be illegal or overly restricted.

We’re paying for one roundtrip air ticket from one of the major airports near you to SFO or another airport in the San Francisco area. We’re also paying for three nights at a hotel within 1 mile of the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The event runs August 30 through September 2, so we expect that’s when you’ll be there. Finally, we’ll pay for one conference pass. You can bring along a guest if you like, but you’ll have to pay their own way.

Sorry, but we can’t afford first class flights and the Ritz. Our travel agent will do their best to accommodate your travel needs, but we’re on a budget here. We stayed at the Mosser last year, and it may be small but it’s really convenient!

International winners must stay over Saturday night to make the airfare work. They might need to pay for a fourth hotel night themselves. And we might need to disqualify entries if the travel costs would break our budget. Sorry again!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2010. | Announcing the Gestalt IT “Get Away to VMworld” Contest!
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Donate your conference backpacks to school kids in need!

Trade shows are a veritable swag-fest, some with great loot and some with junk. I’ve been critical of the booth babe and chotchkie phenomenon, but my friend Kevin Houston has a better suggestion: Donate your (useful) swag like backpacks and pens to school kids in need.

Kevin first suggested this to me at HP Tech Forum after I refused the giveaway backpack I wouldn’t have used. It turns out that he’s been doing this for a while, with a focus on the backpacks so many vendors distribute. It’s funny – my own son uses my VMworld 2009 backpack and I have to admit it’s a well-built and useful bag. But I hadn’t thought of the underprivileged kids out there who could use it even more.

Did you know that 41% of kids in the United States come from “low-income” households? According to the NCCP, over half of the kids in Arkansas, DC, and Mississippi are under financial stress. I’m sure back-to-school time is a serious disappointment for many kids whose parents can’t afford a new backpack, pencils, and other school supplies. Many don’t realize that school districts can’t afford enough supplies either. In fact, it’s so common that the IRS allows teachers to deduct up to $250 in out-of-pocket expenses to equip their classrooms with basic supplies.

So I’d like to echo Kevin’s call: It’s time for us techies to lend a hand and support education. The next generation needs us! When you come home from VMworld and similar events, load that backpack up with school supplies (notebooks, pencils, scissors, and the like) and donate it to a local school. They’ll be glad for the help!

Photo by Kevin Houston

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2010. | Donate Your Swag to School Kids In Need
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Did you know that Gestalt IT had an email newsletter? Well, we do! We’ve started sending out notifications once a week or less about the goings on with Gestalt IT, Tech Field Day, and related topics.

We’d like to encourage our readers to subscribe, so we’re announcing a contest to let you all know it exists!

On August 6, we will give away your choice of one of the following Microsoft software packages:

1. Microsoft Windows 7, Home Premium
2. Microsoft Office 2010, Home and Student Family Pack
3. Microsoft Office for Mac 2008, Home and Student Edition

To enter, just subscribe to our newsletter! We will send the entry URL and contest password in the next newsletter, to be mailed on July 29th!

Current subscribers got a special thank you bonus: An extra entry!

Sadly, due to varying regulations and laws, this contest is only open to residents of the United States.

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2010. | Gestalt IT Newsletter Contest!
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It’s now been a couple of days since the second day of the Gestalt IT Tech Field Day, I’m actually taking the opportunity to write this on the plane on the way back from Seattle. So once again I thought I would do a summary post until I get the chance to write up a detailed post on each vendor.

Compellent were one of the main sponsors for the Seattle Tech Field Day and were responsible for us getting access to the Microsoft Campus. So a big thank you to Compellent for their support of Tech Field Day.

Compellent are a company I have had dealings with before, I looked at buying one of their storage devices back in 2008 and was very impressed by the product they had on offer at the time.  This was a great chance for me to revisit Compellent two years on and see how things had changed.

Compellent in general still appears to be much the same product that I liked so much back in 2008.  Their pooled storage model, software controlled RAID write down, space efficient snapshots and WAN optimised thin replication are all superb  features. There main differentiator back in 2008 was their ability to do automated storage tiering (Data Progression™), something that others in the industry are starting to catch up to (EMC FAST). Compellent’s Data Progression technology is one that many customers actively use with good results, I was slightly disappointed though to learn that their data movement engine only executes once every 24 hours and cannot be made more frequent.  I’m not sure how that compares to EMC FAST but is something I’ll include in a more expansive post.

A feature I had heard of but didn’t quite understand previously was Compellent’s Live Volume.  It’s another unique feature for Compellent and one of my fellow delegates even described it as “EMC vPlex that you could actually afford”. Compellent implement the Live Volume feature at software level as opposed to a hardware based implementation like EMC vPlex. Compellent are able to present the same volume, with the same identity in two different locations, they do this using the underlying WAN optimised asynchronous replication. One point of note was that this is not an active / active DR like setup,  this is a setup for use in a controlled maintenance scenario, such as SAN fabric maintenance or a DC Power down test.

Compellent also took the opportunity to share some roadmap information. Highlights included the release of the 64 bit, Series 40 Controller base on the Intel Nehalem, encrypted USB device for seeding replication, a move to smaller 2.5” drives and 256 bit full disk encryption among others.

Although we were situated on Microsoft’s Campus for a large part of Tech Field day we were never presented to by Microsoft, which was a shame.  We did however get the chance to visit the Microsoft store which is for employees only.  It gave us all a chance to buy some discounted Microsoft Software and souvenirs of our visit to Redmond which we all took advantage of.

Tech Field Day delegates Kevin Houston, Stephen Foskett and Jason Boche using their iPhones and iPads in the heart of the Microsoft campus. Note Jason Boche using an iPad and wearing his VMware VCDX shirt, brilliant!

Our afternoon session was spent a short bus ride away from Microsoft at NEC America’s Seattle office.  We were here to hear about NEC’s storage offering (I had no idea they even did storage) and more specifically the NEC HYDRAstor range. We had a very in depth session on this fascinating product with Gideon Senderov, Director of Product Management for the HYDRAstor range.

NEC have taken an innovative approach with this product, one I was not expecting. They utilise full blown NEC servers to provide a two tier architecture made up of front end accelerator nodes and back end storage nodes.  On top of this they don’t use the traditional RAID model, instead using something known as erasure coding to provide improved data protection. I will deep-dive this particular data protection method in another article but it was a very interesting and different approach to what I’m used to.

The HYDRAstor grid is marketed as “Storage for the next 100 years” and with it’s grid architecture it’s reasonably easy to see how that statement could be realised.  You can add additional nodes into the grid and it will automatically redistribute itself to take advantage of the capacity.  You can also mark nodes for removal,  the system evacuating the data to enable nodes to be removed from the grid.  This combined with the ability to co-exist old and new HYDRAstor nodes shows why it’s a good storage location for data with a very long term retention requirement.

It appeared to me that HYDRAstor was designed specifically as a location for the output of archive or backup data and not a primary data storage solution. The reason I say this is that when we discussed in-line de-duplication the product was already integrated with major backup vendors (Symantec NetBackup, CommVault Simpana, Tivoli Storage Manager and EMC Networker). NEC were getting very clever by stripping out metadata from these backup vendors to improve the level of de-dedupe that could be achieved with the product when storing backup data.

I will revisit the HYDRAstor, once I have had a chance to go over my notes I fully intend to dedicate a full article to it as I was very impressed.

Rodney Haywood and Gideon Senderov white boarding the configuration of the NEC HYDRAstor

© Craig for Gestalt IT, 2010. | Gestalt IT Seattle Tech Field Day – Day 2 Summary
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So that is Day 1 of the Seattle Tech Field Day out of the way and what a day it has been.  We’ve been out to Microsoft Redmond HQ, or “the temple” as John Obeto calls it.  We saw some new products from Veeam and were privileged enough to be the first port of call for a new and very exciting storage start-up, Nimble Storage.

There has been a lot of information flowing about today, an awful lot. My plan is to spend some time assimilating all the information and doing more detailed posts on everyone we’ve seen, so for now I think a summary will suffice.

Veeam are a company that needs very little introduction.  They’ve not been around long (3 years to be exact) but they are a well known and well respected brand in the virtualisation space.  Today Veeam were announcing a new product / concept that they have at the development stage, one that got delegates quite excited.

Veeam were introducing vPower a new product made up of 3 products, SureBackup, Instant Restore and CDP (a much debated point).  What stood out most for Tech Field Day delegates was the some of the Instant Restore functionality, the ability to run your VM direct from backup image was well received.  My personal thought at the time was who wouldn’t want to have a mechanism available to test your backups actually work.  The added bonus was that Veeam also provide network isolation and an almost Lab Manager ability to create groups of machines that should be recovered together. The idea of verifying your backups by running them from the back up storage was one thing,  Veeam had however written their own NFS in order do this.  This means that technically in the event of an outage you can run your machine directly from the Veeam backup server NFS datastore.  It’ isn’t going to be fast but it’s running which is the main thing you should be concerned about.  It was all good stuff and general consensus was that it was a step in the right direction and quite a shift in the VM backup space.

Our surprise for the day was a new Tech start-up who were launching themselves and their product for the very first time.  Nimble Storage is a new start company who consist of a number of high pedigree employees with a proven track record at companies such as NetApp and DataDomain.  This is further backed up with an experienced board of directors and top venture capital investment and last but not least, a pretty good product at a good price point.

Without going into to much detail Nimble storage have produced a new array that probably reshapes the way people think about primary and backup storage as well as the use of flash storage within an array. Right at the outset they stated that their aim was to introduce flash storage to the mid size enterprise while also utilising a lot of the features being pioneered by other vendors.  Nimble’s approach is different in that it provides a converged appliance, one that does primary and secondary storage within the same device while also introducing flash caching to provide high performance.  Through the use of inline compression, flash cache, sequential write down to disk, efficient snapshots and replication as well as zero space cloning, Nimble is packing a lot into their product. At the top end you are paying a list price of  $99,000 + $6,000 annual maintenance.  For this you are looking at 18TB of primary storage (not including flash cache) + 15,000 IOPS from a SATA / Flash Mix. They were also looking at 216TB of backup capacity within that same device, driven primarily by their use of space efficient snapshots.  I have a lot of notes on this particular presentation and will be expanding upon this in the coming weeks.

Now F5 was a company I was really interested to see, primarily because I wasn’t entirely sure what they offered.  Sure I knew they were into networking but even then what did they do in the networking space, I had no idea.  We were treated to 4 different presentations that covered the following.

• WAN optimised geographical vMotion
• Coding of IRules and IControls for the BIG-IP appliances
• Intelligent client VPN connectivity via BIG-IP’s Edge gateway module.
• Data Management and Routing using F5’s ARX appliance, file system virtualisation.

All were very impressive and I will definitely be looking to dig a little deeper and examine in full some of the technology presented and discussed.  I was particularly impressed with F5’s vision for data management / file level virtualisation, as they seem to be one of the only companies in this space that I am aware of.  This vision was demonstrated to us as a mix of onsite primary tier 1 storage and off site cloud storage.  The ARX appliance would sit as a director presenting a unified view of the storage to the end user, while internally keeping a routing table of up to a billion files.  This will allow IT departments to place files across multiple types of storage, whether that be differing internal storage devices or storage in the cloud. The concept sits well with the current cloud strategies being developed by most major IT companies, what’s surprising is that nobody else is doing it.  There is a lot more to be said about F5,  I plan to delve a little deeper and write some more,

Summary

It’s been a very busy day,  one however that has been exceptionally rewarding. Tech Field Day has been everything I expected it to be so far,  there has been a wealth of information shared and a lot of feedback given. The biggest win for me though is getting the time to learn more about vendors and their product offerings, that and hearing the comments of my fellow delegates.  There is a good mix of intelligent people from varied backgrounds and that has only added to the experience so far.

We ended the night with a tour of the Boeing museum of flight and a couple of drinks with dinner.  It’s now midnight and after just 6 hours sleep last night and a busy schedule ahead for tomorrow,  I am going to call it a night there.

© Craig for Gestalt IT, 2010. | Gestalt IT Seattle Tech Field Day – Day 1 Summary
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I am in Seattle, WA for the third GestaltIT Tech Field Day (TFD). This time I am part of the presenting team for Veeam Software, and we are first up on the agenda. As with other recent events, I am using Cover It Live (CiL) to provide real time coverage and of our presentation and the reaction of the delegates (bloggers) attending. The best part about using Cover It Live is the event can be played back in the future, so check it out even if you missed it live.

I’m automatically pulling in the tweets of all involved, so I should have a good stream of both bloggers and sponsors represented here.

I’m using the following twitter lists:

• @TechFieldDay/tfd3-sponsors
• @TechFieldDay/tfd3-delegates

Look for my occasional commentary as well, but I’m not sure how much time I’ll actually have to participate. I’ll end the coverage when our time is up, which should be roughly 3 to 4 hours.

Click through the page break for the CiL widget and tune into the fun!

By the way, we are providing the first ever public demo of Veeam Backup and Replication 5.0 SureBackup!

© Rich for Gestalt IT, 2010. | Live Coverage – GestaltIT Tech Field Day Veeam Presentation
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As Compellent, a sponsor for Gestalt IT’s Tech Field Day Seattle, interviewed me for a post on their blog, I thought it would be fun to turn the tables and interview them right back! You will notice some similarity in the questions and answers – this was entirely coincidental, since we did not see each other’s answers prior to submitting them!

Following are three questions answered by Compellent Director of Corporate Communications, Liem Nguyen. Read my answers over at Compellent’s Around the Block blog!

What makes the Field Day event a good match for Compellent?

A typical tradeshow gets a bunch of people together in one location and you end up with vendors showcasing their wares in booths and holding meetings with customers, partners, and thought leaders. Compellent goes to many each year, and we love them because we meet lots of people in our community. However, not everyone who has a day job – i.e. bloggers – can take time away to meet with us to get the scoop on product updates and share ideas on important trends.

Tech Field Day is unique because it allows Compellent to make connections with a lot of sharp people who we might not normally meet face to face – or may have known only through Twitter or their blogs. It’s a great forum for exchange of ideas and for us to get feedback on our product strategy and direction – listening to feedback and acting upon it is something we’ve always tried to do, even before we launched our very first product.

What will you do to make your presentation really stand out?

I’ve always felt that giving people great content to chew on makes a big difference. We’re planning to give the usual overview to introduce ourselves to some new folks, but we’re also going to do some chalk talks to really get into the bits and blocks on what makes Fluid Data tick and what makes it different from other virtualized storage vendors. I’m excited that we’ll have a great group of folks who’ve been with Compellent for years, have seen us through a lot of change and growth, and were there almost at the beginning. Guys like Bob Fine, Scott DesBles and Justin Braun. They’re the big brains. I’m just the not-so-pretty face.

How will you know if the Field Day event was a success for Compellent?

Well, a big indicator will be whether the delegates understand the Compellent differentiators and report on them—such as the notion that not all automated tiered storage and thin provisioning are created equal. I’m just being honest here. If we were successful at describing who we are and the storage pain points we’re trying to address with Fluid Data, then we’ll know soon enough when we get their reactions in person and online. I’m sure nobody’s going to hold back their opinions, and frankly, we want honest feedback. It’s the only way we get better as a company.

Second, I hope to know people a little better afterward, talk to them online and continue the discussion. So we better get a lot of new followers on Twitter!

Follow @Compellent on Twitter, or use the @TechFieldDay Twitter lists: Seattle Sponsors and Seattle Delegates. More information is available at our Tech Field Day Seattle page!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2010. | 3 Questions For Field Day Sponsor, Compellent
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