How Well Do You Know Your SA
15 - Lifeguard
In the HBO comedy series Silicon Valley, this is the name of the revolutionary data compression algorithm and eventual company founded by Richard Hendricks.
What is Pied Piper?
Can PowerVault Optionally be deployed as Passive/Active? Instead of Dual-Active or Active/Active
What is True!
Scientists have successfully created diamonds out of peanut butter.
What is True
This planet, often called the "Morning Star," is the hottest planet in our solar system, despite being the second from the sun.
What is Venus?
What is Manas' Favorite Candy?
A.) Reeces
B.) Starbursts
C.) KitKats
D.) Sour Patch Kids
A.) Reeces
This word, added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, was popularized by an Eminem song and is now commonly used to describe a fan.
What is a "Stan"?
What would be the equivalent to Double Drive Failure from PowerStore in terms of Raid?
Raid 6 / Double Parity
The Great Wall of China is the only man-made object that is visible from the Moon with the naked eye.
What is False? (This is a very common myth. No man-made objects are visible from the Moon. You can't even reliably see the Great Wall from low-Earth orbit.)
The name of the peace treaty signed in 1919 that officially ended World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Manas was how old when I moved to the US?
A.) 2
B.) 4
C.) 6
D.) 11
B.) 4
This actor voices both Darth Vader in Star Wars and Mufasa in The Lion King.
Who is James Earl Jones?
Dell Private Cloud vs Dell Automation Platform, what is the difference?
Dell Private Cloud is the complete solution you sell to a customer who wants a cloud operating model on-premises. The Dell Automation Platform is the engine that makes the Private Cloud automated, simple, and self-managing.
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world, measured from its base (on land) to its peak.
What is False?
(Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the tallest. While its peak is ~14,000 ft above sea level, its base is deep on the ocean floor, making its total height over 33,000 ft, much taller than Everest's.)
Michael Dell was this age when his company first entered the Fortune 500 list, making him the youngest CEO on the list at the time.
What is 27?
Manas' Current favorite product to message?
What is PowerStore
She became the youngest person to win the "Big 4" (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) in 2017 for her role in the play The Color Purple.
Who is Cynthia Erivo?
In what scenarios can a PowerStore be cheaper than a Hybrid array? Describe it in a micro-message.
- Talking Points to include:
- DRR/Compression on Very dedupable workloads ex.) VDI can outsave purchasing HDD
- Power/Cooling Efficiency
- Lower Rack Space greater TCO
- Time to value with Flash vs HDD
There is significantly more processing power in a standard TI-84 graphing calculator (the one you used in high school) than there was in the Apollo 11 Guidance Computer that landed men on the moon. A single bolt of lightning contains more energy than a nuclear bomb.
What is True
This American scientist and computer engineer is widely credited as the inventor of the World Wide Web.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
I haven't done 2 of the following is a sport/activities? Which ones are they?
1.) Ice Skating
2.) Skiing
3.) Sky Diving
4.) Snorkeling
5.) Archery
6.) Cliff Diving
4.) Snorkeling
The real name of actor and musician Childish Gambino.
Donald McKinley Glover Jr.
A customer leverages non-best practices for their BC & Backup strategy and with the recent scare of Cloud Outages want to go on-prem.
Navigate this conversation from a technical perspective (not a sales perspective).
IDM & SA to Judge
Talking Points:
- Re-Patriation
- Consumption
- Compute & Storage Utilization
- Business Continuity Strategy with Sync/Async/Metro capabilities
- Co-Location
The iconic horned helmets worn by Vikings were a critical part of their battle uniform, designed to intimidate enemies.
What is False?
(There is zero historical or archaeological evidence that Vikings ever wore horned helmets. This was an invention for 19th-century opera costumes.)
This popular snack food, a chewy fruit bar with a specific fig filling, was named after a Boston suburb in 1891.
What is the Fig Newton?