‘Tis the Season: Share Your Spookiest "Data Horror Stories"! 👻
We kicked this month off with some Cybersecurity Awareness month fun, now let’s shift gears towards something a little more spooky to celebrate the Halloween season. As Data enthusiasts and professionals, we all have our dreaded Data Horror Story that sticks in the back of our minds. Will you have the scariest tale? 🕸️ We want to hear YOUR spooky stories! What is the most horrifying, hair-raising or downright just plain funny data mishap you’ve ever experienced? How did you escape that nightmare (or fix the query)? Whether it was a mysterious dashboard metric that unexpectedly plummeted to zero at 4:59 PM on a Friday or entering a server room that just gave you the chills - drop your best Data Horror Story in the comments below!🏀 Will you have a perfect bracket? 🗑️
It's Madness!! March Madness that is! Join the Everpure community bracket contest and make your bracket today. ⏰ ESPN closes bracket selection on Thursday, 3/19 @ 12:15p ET, so be sure to lock in your selections before then. Once you have a completed bracket, come back to this post to share yours, join in on the trash talk, and cheer on the cinderella stories! Will Duke and Arizona be dueling in the tournament final? How far can Kennesaw St, McNeese, or Hofstra get? Is your alma mater in the tourney? As a Jayhawk, this is always one of the most exciting and nerve wracking times of year for me! I'm bummed we're a 4 seed this year, but we've been playing so hot and cold this season, I get why.Has a hobby ever surprised you by making you better at your job?
So, one of my slightly mad hobbies is "Homelabbing," the bizarre practice of building a datacenter in your home for no good reason. I’ve spent years marketing enterprise IT and data center concepts, and I thought I understood my audience. Then I started building and running the technology myself. Nothing teaches you about uptime quite like providing critical services to a family with less patience than any CEO. And you don’t fully appreciate the trauma of data loss until you’re performing disaster recovery on your family’s entire photo library. 😟💾 It’s taught me a huge amount technically, but the biggest change has been empathy. Concepts like resilience, simplicity, and recoverability feel very different when the people waiting for a fix live in your house. What hobby has unexpectedly made you better at your day job?
