NetApp's £1m challenge won by precisely no one
Crap entries flood contest
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Nobody won a million pounds of kit from NetApp because data centre nerds thought the offer was unbelievable or couldn't be bothered with the paperwork.
NetApp UK offered an award of up to £1m in NetApp hardware, software, and services to a lucky customer that managed to reduce its storage usage by 50 per cent through using NetApp gear. The competition's rules are still available on NetApp's website.
The kit, software and services is unclaimed because potential customers thought the offer was just not believable.
A NetApp spokesperson said: "The response rates were really low. We realised that perhaps people who enter competitions have very little tolerance for entry forms and also a lot of people thought it was too good to be true."
There was a second reason: although entries did come in, they were crap. The spokesperson added: "None of the entries that did come through, and I think you can count them on one hand, were able to enter - either due to contracts with other vendors or resellers, or incomplete entry forms.
If you fancy have a go now it is too late; entries had to be in by 12:00am GMT on 28 September... in 2009. ®
COMMENTS
Oh it's easy
If you want to reduce your usage of storage by 50% just by using Netapp gear you just need to do the following:
1) Plan on buying 2 X netapp appliances
2) Change order to just 1
3) Jump for joy as you have reduced your usage of storage by 50% just thru use of Netapp appliances.
How else could the company conclude so far that they recieved a handful of responses from current customers. Competition form too complicated - no, impossible to reduce usage 50% - HA no, can't be that, People think it's april the first and are stupid - yes that must be why nobody won!
Lack of incentive.
So you reduce your storage requirements by 50% using NetApp kit.
And the prize is a million quid's worth of NetApp kit, to go with the 50% of what you've already got that you no longer need.
What were they thinking? eBay?
Or maybe...
> A NetApp spokesperson said: "The response rates were really low. We realised that perhaps people who enter competitions have very little tolerance for entry forms and also a lot of people thought it was too good to be true."
Or maybe the reason is that it is simply not possible to reduce storage requirements by 50% using Netapp gear?
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