The call rang out across the Interwebs all last week: What do you know about the companies presenting at our first Tech Field Day event later this week? Many have answered, with over 150 quizzes filed already! Yet there is still time left to answer and enter for a chance to win a techie prize pack including a new Apple iPod Nano with video and other great stuff!

Fill out all seven quizzes now (it shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes) and you’ll get 7 chances to win!

• Do You Know Xsigo?
• Do You Know MDS Micro?
• Do You Know 3PAR?
• Do You Know Symantec Storage?
• Do You Know Ocarina?
• Do You Know Nirvanix?

We will be announcing the winner tomorrow, November 10, 2009!

What’s this all about?

Gestalt IT is a group of folks passionate about IT infrastructure. We’re not some big publisher, analyst house, or PR agency. We’re just regular independent individuals who want to learn and share. So we put together our own event, Tech Field Day, to help us learn what seven cool companies are offering.

Everyone Is Invited!

Although just 15 folks will be attending the event, we’re not alone! We will be covering the event on Twitter, on our blogs, and just about everywhere else we can think of. We’ll even have a running Tech Field Day Scoreboard so you can follow along at home!

The “Do You Know…” contest is another way to bring wider participation. We’re using your feedback to help us ask the best questions during the event, and will try to get the straight truth right from the source. It’s also a fun way to see who knows what about these companies. We’ll have a follow-on series of posts, videos, and quizzes after the event, including a second contest.

So go ahead and get involved! Enter the contest, ask your questions, and follow along as we dive into our first Tech Field Day!

Enter Now!

Here are all seven quizzes in one place, listed in reverse chronological order. Only one entry per person per quiz please!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2009. | One More Day To Enter the Tech Field Day “Do You Know?” Contest!
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Domo arigato, data roboto, but what can you do? The Tech Field Day attendees will get up close and personal with Data Robotics as the final presentation on Friday afternoon.

You will certainly hear a great deal about this company soon, but until then the question is put to you: Do you know Data Robotics? Answer the following quiz and you’ll be entered to win a prize package, including the new 16 GB Apple iPod Nano with video! Check out the introductory page for contest details and rules, and watch this space for six other quizzes in the “Do You Know…” series. Each quiz gives you another chance to win!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2009. | Do You Know Data Robotics?
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Does Nirvanix smell like teen spirit or a state of enlightenment? The Tech Field Day attendees will get up close and personal with Nirvanix and their partner, Ocarina, first thing Friday morning.

You will certainly hear a great deal about this company soon, but until then the question is put to you: Do you know Nirvanix? Answer the following quiz and you’ll be entered to win a prize package, including the new 16 GB Apple iPod Nano with video! Check out the introductory page for contest details and rules, and watch this space for six other quizzes in the “Do You Know…” series. Each quiz gives you another chance to win!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2009. | Do You Know Nirvanix?
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Oh, Carina, what do you think of Ocarina? Do they make network components of flutes? The Tech Field Day attendees will get up close and personal with Ocarina and their partner, Nirvanix, first thing Friday morning.

You will certainly hear a great deal about this company soon, but until then the question is put to you: Do you know Ocarina? Answer the following quiz and you’ll be entered to win a prize package, including the new 16 GB Apple iPod Nano with video! Check out the introductory page for contest details and rules, and watch this space for six other quizzes in the “Do You Know…” series. Each quiz gives you another chance to win!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2009. | Do You Know Ocarina?
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Syman says they know tec. But do you know Symantec Storage? The Tech Field Day attendees will get up close and personal with Symantec Storage and their partner, 3PAR, on Thursday afternoon.

You will certainly hear a great deal about this company soon, but until then the question is put to you: Do you know Symantec Storage? Answer the following quiz and you’ll be entered to win a prize package, including the new 16 GB Apple iPod Nano with video! Check out the introductory page for contest details and rules, and watch this space for six other quizzes in the “Do You Know…” series. Each quiz gives you another chance to win!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2009. | Do You Know Symantec Storage?
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Par-3 courses are excellent for golf newbies, but what about 3PAR? The Tech Field Day attendees will get up close and personal with 3PAR and their partner, Symantec Storage, on Thursday afternoon.

You will certainly hear a great deal about this company soon, but until then the question is put to you: Do you know 3PAR? Answer the following quiz and you’ll be entered to win a prize package, including the new 16 GB Apple iPod Nano with video! Check out the introductory page for contest details and rules, and watch this space for six other quizzes in the “Do You Know…” series. Each quiz gives you another chance to win!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2009. | Do You Know 3PAR?
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Does MDS stand for “Maximum Data Storage”, “Minimum Density Servers”, “Multiple Domain Software”, or none of the above? The Tech Field Day attendees will get up close and personal with MDS Micro and their partner, Xsigo, first thing Thursday morning at the fabulous VMware Briefing Center, which happens to be right next to the storied Xerox PARC.

You will certainly hear a great deal about this company soon, but until then the question is put to you: Do you know MDS Micro? Answer the following quiz and you’ll be entered to win a prize package, including the new 16 GB Apple iPod Nano with video! Check out the introductory page for contest details and rules, and watch this space for six other quizzes in the “Do You Know…” series. Each quiz gives you another chance to win!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2009. | Do You Know MDS Micro?
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Did you Xsigo when you should have Xsagged? And would you know it if you did? If you were at VMworld 2009, you almost certainly encountered Xsigo’s products, whether you knew it or not! The Tech Field Day attendees will get up close and personal with Xsigo and their partner, MDS Micro, first thing Thursday morning at the fabulous VMware Briefing Center, which happens to be right next to the storied Xerox PARC.

You will certainly hear a great deal about this company soon, but until then the question is put to you: Do you know Xsigo? Answer the following quiz and you’ll be entered to win a prize package, including the new 16 GB Apple iPod Nano with video! Check out the introductory page for contest details and rules, and watch this space for six other quizzes in the “Do You Know…” series. Each quiz gives you another chance to win!

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2009. | Do You Know Xsigo?
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Our first Tech Field Day event is right around the corner! To get warmed up, we are holding a contest and all are welcome to join in! Over the next few days, we will be posting a series of articles with an online quiz relating to each company. Fill out the quiz and you will be entered into a drawing for some cool prizes!

What Do You Know?

All of the Tech Field Day presenting sponsors have a few things in common: They’re in the IT Infrastructure field, they have cool products and technology, and they’re smaller or not as familiar as they should be. The event allows them to open a line of direct communication with the industry thought leaders attending our event as well as all of the folks out there who will be tuning in to their blogs, activity streams, and discussions of the event.

Our quiz is simple: We would like to know how familiar everyone is with these companies. We have a short series of questions from “How familiar are you with Company X?” to “What products does Company Y offer?” We will also be adding a few fun ones in, including “How do you pronounce Xsigo?” Don’t worry about getting the questions right or wrong, just answer honestly based on what you already know.

What Do You Get?

The contest is simple, too. For each entry (up to a maximum of seven, one per quiz), you will be entered in a random drawing to be held on Tuesday, November 10, 2009. One winner will receive a prize package including an awesome new Apple iPod Nano with video!

What Are The Rules?

1. Correct answers are not required. Just fill out the quiz honestly and to the best of your knowledge. The only item required to be answered correctly is the email address!
2. Winners will be chosen at random on November 10, 2009 from the email addresses associated with completed quiz entries. Winners will be notified using the email address used when filling out the quiz and must respond to that email within 24 hours.
3. Gestalt IT will announce the winner in public on November 11, 2009. We will protect your privacy and will not use your full name, job title, employer name, or email address. But we will use your first name and last initial and give a general indication of your employment. For example, we might announce that “John S., a network administrator for an investment bank” has won.
4. In accordance with our privacy policy, we will not share your name, email address, or other information with third parties, but we may use it to contact you in the future regarding this web site.
5. One entry per person per company quiz, for a maximum of seven entries per person. Persons who are caught or suspected of entering multiple times will have all entries disqualified. This is supposed to be fun!
6. Employees and contractors of the companies sponsoring the event are not eligible. Gestalt IT authors (other than Stephen), event attendees, analysts, press, customers, mothers-in-law, and others are eligible provided they are not paid employees or contractors of those companies or Gestalt IT itself.
7. We reserve the right to disqualify any entry, especially if it seems not to be in the spirit of this contest. We also reserve the right to cancel the contest entirely.

Fine Print

No purchase is necessary or, in fact, even possible! Void where prohibited by law, as are most things. Gestalt IT Media LLC is running this sweepstakes and may be contacted at editor@gestaltit.com. Odds of winning are cunningly calculated based on the number of entries, currently estimated at about one in 250. One prize will be awarded at the contest end with an estimated value of US$200. Canadians and others with similar laws must demonstrate the skill of knowing the answers to the quiz questions. Americans apparently need no special skills.

© Stephen Foskett for Gestalt IT, 2009. | Announcing the Tech Field Day “Do You Know…” Contest!
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