Every few months or so, while driving to or from the office or airport or whatever, I see a “teaser” billboard that is very good at getting your attention but doesn’t tell you what it’s trying to advertise until days or weeks later. Intriguingly, we keep looking at it every time we drive by until finally, the message, and the product being advertised, is revealed. Sound familiar?
Well, let’s see if the “blog-as-billboard” idea can work. So we obviously have a big announcement next Wednesday May 27th and although I can’t tell you what it is, I thought I’d try a different approach. Since I’m a big word-gamer, I thought I’d anagram our announcement and see who can come up with an answer. Anybody want to try to figure out what we’re announcing? Then solve this anagram:
REGRADES OUR CLASSY TREAT
Comments (11 )
Chris M Evans on 21 May 2009 at 1:15 pm
Claus,
Well, it could be:
STORAGE READY RULES CARTS
or
A DREARY STORAGE CLUSTER
or
SET STORAGE ARRAY CURDLES
but I suspect you’re aiming at:
STORAGE ARRAYS CLUSTERED
Enterprise Computing: The New USP – ScaBeterA Dreary Storage Cluster? « The Storage Architect on 21 May 2009 at 2:36 pm
[...] their viral marketing for an announcement being made on 27th May. Claus Mikkelsen’s latest blog entry asks us to guess what the announcement will be, based on an acronym of REGRADES OUR CLASSY [...]
Gar on 22 May 2009 at 12:44 am
Phew!, there’s no V, for Virtualisation, in the anagram, that’s good.
Gar.
Konsolideringar och uppköp | Gargamel.NU on 22 May 2009 at 7:45 am
[...] få ett deduplicerings-erbjudande, blir av med detta till NetApp. Vad kommer att hända? (nu har ju HDS flörtat med en lansering den 27/5-2009, vad kommer detta vara? Jag tror i.o.f.s inte att det är ett dedupliceringserbjudande, snarare [...]
HDS’s anagrammatic announcement - Storage Soup on 26 May 2009 at 9:07 am
[...] industry watchers in anticipation of announcing a new system on a webcast scheduled for tomorrow. HDS Chief Scientist Claus Mikkelsen posted an anagram on his blog of the technology HDS will be making noise about tomorrow - REGRADES [...]
Regrades Our Classy Treat « Work In Progress on 26 May 2009 at 11:00 am
[...] http://blogs.hds.com/claus/2009/05/regrades-our-classy-treat-may-27th.html [...]
Richard J. Ferrara on 26 May 2009 at 12:20 pm
Clustered storage arrays…close?
Ron Singler on 27 May 2009 at 4:38 am
Well? It’s the 27th. What is it already?
Christophe Bertrand » Blog Archive » A classy treat allows HDS to up the ante – again on 27 May 2009 at 9:36 am
[...] case you haven’t spent your evenings solving Claus’s anagram from last week’s blog – although I read that Mr. Mellor from the Register has offered a few [...]
Christophe Bertrand on 27 May 2009 at 10:15 am
If you want know more about the anagram, please check out my blog at
http://blogs.hds.com/christophe/2009/05/a-classy-treat-allows-hds-to-up-the-ante-%e2%80%93-again.html
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