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April 24, 2006

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!

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