A little EMC/NetApp Fun – to help cure cancer…

Folks – we spend so much time fighting, so much seriousness in things that in the end, while important aren’t as important of the lives of people, in particular the lives of children.

A friend and colleague at NetApp let me know they were doing a drive for St. Baldricks – a campaign where people shave their heads to help raise funds for fighting cancer in children.   So, in the spirit of competition driving positive things and staying above the fray, we made a little wager.

If they can crack $10K before mid-day tomorrow, my NetApp brothers will shave “EMC” into their heads – as of this moment, they have raised $3,600 from EMCers.

Donate here (and if you’re an EMCer, you have to use your corp email to have it “count” – just be prepared to resist the recruiting :-)

https://www.stbaldricks.org/participants/PhilBrotherton

If you’re Canadian or American, I know the donation is tax deductable – and I bet it is in other countries.

Good fun, and for a good cause.   You guys are bad negotiators, you didn’t want to bet what happens if we don’t raise the target :-)   We’ll do something in the same spirit in reverse to make up for it…

Please help if you can!

Back to your regularly scheduled programming…

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Vaughn, your “vCenter integration table” comparison is still totally wrong – there’s a reason why I don’t put up statements about competitors unless furiously goaded into it…   will post corrections to your blog shortly :-)

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UPDATE – March 16th, 11:11pm ET:

Thank you to all that donated – the NetApp folks exceeded their goals, and in the case of Phil Brotherton, EMCers contributed ~40% of the total.  

I do think it’s important to have some perspective as we all battle it out for the hearts and minds of our customers, we all have innovation, we all have passion, we all have things we can contribute.   When we keep it above the fray, I think it serves customers the best.

When we can put down the swords, even for a moment, and have fun together – it humanizes us, and we can do great things to help others.

My hat is off to Peter Learmonth and Phil Brotherton (photo below) for starting the ball rolling and being great sports.   Now I need to think of something on our side to keep the fun going!

Comments

[Dpironet]

Excellent spirit Chad!
And to anyone who has some spare CPU cycles to give away, World Community Grid (www.worldcommunitygrid.org) is another way to fight against those nasty diseases!

[Phil Brotherton]

Just want to second Chad's comments. Virtualization is big, but there are bigger things in life, like health. This really was an example of competition driving us all towards a better world. My thanks go out to the EMC team and particularly those that sent personal notes about how cancer had touched them and they appreciated I was doing this. That really made it worthwhile from my perspective.

Finally, Chad, sorry about all the gray. The EMC logo really is there!

[mathew]

Thanks alot and I grat you for saving life.What is the significant of shaving hair to help people the cancer?

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