Seems New Year’s is coming early this year. Across the pond in the UK, Ocarina and our partner BlueArc have decided to hand out bottles of bubbly to all and sundry. In short, anyone suffering from a storage hangover–that is, any company that is saddled with more than 20 TB of unstructured data–is eligible for a free bottle of champagne. Talk about the hair of the dog.
The bottle giveaway started last week, and runs through the end of November. It’s open to any companies across EMEA. Here are the basics: send us a sample data set, and we’ll dedupe and compress it by 30-80%, losslessly of course. If we fail, we’ll give you the bottle anyway. (The one thing we don’t accept are cryptologists trying to game the system. This should be a sample data set representative of your company’s main storage repository.) So it’s kind of a no lose situation, unless of course you don’t like champers. If that’s the case, just send the bottle on to this blogger, and she’ll be sure to give it to the needy. (That is, her friends and a few others she’s inviting over for brunch.)
We’re not talking about the cheap stuff here, either. I checked with the team in London, and have been told that it will be Taittinger or better quality.
So, why the sparkly stuff and not, say, a Starbucks gift certificate or some silly piece of shwagola? Because, say our UK marketing team, too much data shouldn’t be a source of misery. It can even (gasp!) be something to celebrate, if you’re equipped with the right tools. In this case, this is a combo of the BlueArc Mercury or Titan and the Ocarina ECOsystem for advanced dedupe and compression. Roll these two together, and you’ve got a delicious mimosa of a storage drink. Slainte!
Here’s how to win: Send an email with “FestiveGiveAway” in the reference line to: ukinfo (AT) ocarinanetworks.com or ukinfo (AT) bluearc.com. EMEA-based companies only, please.
