Storage Haiku

I really enjoy writing, and of course I've devoted a good bit of my life to thinking about storage, so imagine my excitement at discovering that Mike Karp is running a contest to identify the best storage haiku. (Hurry! Contest ends April 30th.)

To get your creative juices flowing, let me share a few of my own masterpieces. First I thought I'd toot my own horn:

Life is too complex
Unix/Windows do not help
Invent appliance

Then I decided to focus on some of NetApp's capabilities:

So many users
Not enough disks in array
Thin provisioning

Tape falls off of truck
Twenty million credit cards
Should have encrypted

ATA drives suck
And yet so inexpensive
Better have RAID-6

I have a hunch that touting your own products is not a winning strategy, so I thought I'd better move on to broader industry topics:

Summer storms are here
Data below sea level
Remote site saves job

ILM is hot
But what does it really mean?
I am still confused

Virtually painless
Says doc with three inch needle
Virtual means "not"

Twin towers fall
No D2D for e-mail
Terrorists have won

In the end, though, I think what matters most is the experience of the end user:

Digital photos
The sound of one head crashing
A childhood is lost

If you aren't wiping a tear from your eye, then you have no soul.

Calling all poets: Give me your best shot!