For the upcoming Gestalt IT Tech Field Day November 12-13 we’re expecting a contingent of bloggers and other thought leaders to converge on Silicon Valley. When they arrive at the Ocarina Networks offices in San Jose, we won’t just be giving them a demonstration. In fact, we’ll be taking something away from them.
In anticipation of this event, we’re challenging the attendees to bring us their toughest data set on a thumb drive. It can involve whatever files they want Ocarina to try to shrink–JPEGs, video, audio, PDFs, homeshares, email databases and so on. They will probably want to include several similar but not duplicate files, such as a series of PowerPoint files that contain some of the same slides but also different ones, or similar slides that have been edited.
On November 13 when the participants arrive, we’ll collect all the thumb drives. Then we’ll pick a few at random from a hat, and do a real time demonstration of the Ocarina ECOsystem compressing and deduping the files.
This is a first as far as we know, and it should provide for a very lively session. Here are some of the questions they’ll probably be asking.
1. What kind of data reduction will I get with this test data set?
2. Which files are being compressed, and by how much?
3. What kind of deduplication results will I see?
4. How does Ocarina do on image files? Video? Already compressed files such as Zip or PDF?
We hereby issue this challenge to the participants, and look forward to showing them what Ocarina can do.
Hey Folks,
are we limited to a thumb drive? If so, I would be guessing that this is probably due to a time limit. And if that is the case, we have our fifth question in regards to the time it takes.
Anyway, I’ll try to bring something along and I’m looking forward to meeting you all. This is already a good start to something new and interesting!
Bas
Thanks Bas. Glad you’re enthusiastic! We think it’s a great idea too, and very much in the spirit of Tech Field Day as a fun, hands-on experience. And yes, you’re limited to a thumb drive with a few gigs of data on it. We’ll get you more details soon, but you’re right about the reasoning behind this, which is that you’ll see your results that day before you leave.