Dell
This is the stock ticker symbol for Dell Technologies on the New York Stock Exchange
DELL
This metric describes how long it takes to bring data or an application back online after an outage.
What is Recovery Time Objective (RTO)?
This word describes a storage design where the compute and storage layers are separated, so you can scale performance and capacity independently instead of adding both together like traditional HCI.
Disaggregated
This company is a big Dell competitor and makes Windows, Azure cloud, and Surface PCs.
Microsoft
What college did Jack attend
University of Vermont
Dell Technologies traces its roots to this year, when Michael Dell started the company in his college dorm room.
1984
This type of backup only copies changes since the last backup, making jobs smaller and faster.
incremental backup
This Dell offer lets customers consume infrastructure like a cloud service, paying based on usage.
Dell APEX
This competitor promotes a “Evergreen” subscription model and emphasizes “no disruptive forklift upgrades” for its FlashArray and FlashBlade platforms.
Pure Storage
What sport did Mick get a concussion from
Cheer
This is the name of Dell Technologies’ annual flagship conference where customers and partners hear strategy announcements and product updates.
Dell Technologies World
What is the name for a point-in-time copy of data on a storage system that can be used to roll back quickly after a mistake or corruption.
A Snapshot
What does RAID stand for and what is its basic purpose
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks. Its basic purpose is to combine multiple drives to improve data protection and/or performance
WWhich IT company's ProLiant servers and Alletra storage compete with Dell’s PowerEdge and PowerStore
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)?
What was the name of Team Ensign when Jack was an associate on the team
The Doherty Dynasty (the Doherty Dozen would be accepted as well)
In one of the largest tech deals ever, Dell acquired EMC for approximately how much $$$
$67 billion
The Dell AI Factory
Dell’s data protection solutions are tightly integrated with this AI-focused infrastructure strategy, helping secure the data powering AI workloads.
This is the unit of digital storage that comes after a petabyte, equal to about 1,000 petabytes.
Exabyte
This competitor’s ONTAP operating system is often compared to Dell’s PowerStore and PowerScale for unified file and block storage.
NetApp
What is the Account Name of Jack's Food Influencer friend
BeefEatsFirst
Michael Dell originally named the business this, before shortening it to Dell.
PC’s Limited
Dell’s cyber recovery guarantee states that Dell will provide up to this dollar amount to help customers recover data from a qualifying ransomware or cyber event if recovery is not otherwise possible.
up to $10 million
This feature of many arrays automatically spreads data across multiple drives so reads and writes are faster than on a single disk.
Data Striping
Nutanix software can run on Dell servers, but customers sometimes compare it to this lower-cost hardware alternative vendor that also offers nodes for Nutanix.
Supermicro
When are Kristen and Nate getting married?
September 27, 2026