NetApp's £1m challenge won by precisely no one

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 …

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

[Anonymous Coward]

As well as...

It looks like one would have to actually guy buy netapp gear to try and reduce your req's by 50%. Talk about a bait and switch! Give it to marketing to try and trick folks to buying into vendor lockin on a low end array...

[Anonymous Coward]

In the old day's

Back in the old day's your sales rep would fill in these competition forms out for you. How sales staff have vhanged over the years.

[Robin Szemeti]

Or, alternatively ...

They said:

The kit, software and services is unclaimed because potential customers thought the offer was just not believable.

Translation:

We can't even give the stuff away :(

[Velv]

Sounds a bit reversed. You'd expect NetApp to offer money back if you can't save storage, not if you can

[TeeCee]

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?

[TROLL]

lols

1.) The $1 Million paranormal challenge - reward for anyone who proves under proper conditions evidence of any paranormal, occult or supernatural power.

Unclaimed.

2.) The $1 Million bigfoot reward – Reward for anyone who can provide a photograph that leads to the capture of bigfoot, the lochness monster or the abominable snowman.

Unclaimed.

3.) The £1 Million Netapp reward – reward for anyone who can save storage usage by 50% using Netapp gear.

Unclaimed.

I think I’ll go for bigfoot reward, seems the most achievable as I have three to choose from and only need to take a photo.

I guess if you did achieve the Netapp claim you could technically apply for the prize of number 1.

[Herby]

Maybe the hoops you need to jump through...

Were you needed to use 2 Million quid of netapp stuff to begin with, save 1 million, and have a million left over. You MIGHT win the prize (or not?).