Lots of speculation this past week in the storage tweet-o-blog-0sphere around our “Bring Out Your Data” Challenge for Tech Field Day. We can’t wait to see what these smart and savvy participants bring us, and we’re confident about the results. There will be prizes awarded for those who stymie us and those who get the greatest reduction. This morning, we sent out a brief email giving a few more details about it. In the spirit of transparency, here is what we sent to the attendees:
Dear Tech Field Day attendee,
Ocarina Networks has issued a challenge to you for Tech Field Day: bring out your data. In brief, we’re asking you to arrive on November 13 at our offices with a thumb drive containing your toughest data set. We will compress and dedupe that data for you right in front of your eyes. This will be a chance for you to see the Ocarina ECOsystem in action so that you can assess data reduction and performance for yourself in real time.
Here are a few guidelines.
1. Try to keep it under 2 GB. This is to ensure that as many participants as possible have an opportunity to shrink their data during the four-hour time period you will be at the Ocarina offices.
2. If you would like to see both deduplication and compression, we recommend that you bring data that includes duplicates. In other words, one 2GB file is not going to be deduplicatable, but several different files that have shared objects will show much more interesting results. If you’re only interested in seeing our compression capabilities, then this isn’t necessary, but please keep in mind that the results you get in that case won’t reflect the deduplication feature.
3. Give us a mix of files from your local hard drive.
4. Label your stick. Put your name somewhere on the physical thumb drive. Also, give the directory your own first and last name.
A final note: we will return your flash drive to you at the end of the day, but please don’t bring us a sole copy of an important piece of data, as we may return it to you with the data in a compressed format.
Thanks for you participation in Tech Field Day, and we look forward to meeting you next week!
Best wishes,
The Ocarina Social Media Team
Carter George, Mike Davis, Sunshine Mugrabi, and Helen Miller-Montana
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