Today, the final roundup of winners in this year’s Great Storage Haiku Contest. But first, a few more “special category” winners.
The "Best Admission by a Vendor Award":
They drink our Kool-Aid
So we sell them even more
Costly maintenance
- P
Award for "Best Insight from Asia":
A bird’s eye view
of ILM: I Love Money
Hear the buzz word
- Sathish Murthy, Singapore
The "Most Confusing Haiku of the Year Award":
Swallows back up nest
Furry bytes executives
Chopin in kilobytes
- Ernst Lopes Cardozo, Aranea Consult BV, The Netherlands (Ernesto works very late at night, and absolutely assures me this was written during third shift).
The “Feel Their Pain Award”:
One terabyte now,
One petabyte tomorrow.
Will it ever end?
- Dave Hitz, NetApp
Special award for "Best Literarily-Appropriate Use of a Pun":
Compliance, small price.
Best there is, reliable.
Against giants terror bites.
-Neal Aronson, Stor4good Consulting.
The "My Disk has a Giggle Byte of Data Award":
Upright, closer now,
Bits standing steady as heads dip
Towards their denseness.
- Anonymous
And now, the moment a few of you have been waiting for… presenting, the winners:
Second Runner-Up, honoring the writer’s clear understanding of life, the universe, and the fact that there may after all be something more important than high tech:
Great array of time
Fossil record still dwarfs all
Lifecycles become clear.
- Dennis Drogseth, EMA
First Runner Up, honoring the writer’s understanding that, when all is said and done, it’s the bottom line, stupid:
Tape or not to tape
Whatever you may decide
Just don’t lose data
- Chris Crouse, Unity Consultants
And the GRAND PRIZE WINNING HAIKU, chosen not because the author sent in lots of entries, but because just about all his stuff really rocked, is:
So many users
Not enough disks in array
Thin provisioning
Dave Hitz, NetApp
Congratulations, Dennis, Chris and Dave!
Dave, in addition to the adulation of friends, relatives and coworkers, you will soon receive this year’s Special Award, a picture of my dog enjoying your poem as best she knows how. I am sure you will come up with a suitable way to display this special tribute to your literary skills.
Next week it will be back to more traditional commentary on the storage industry.