Two years ago, only three months after the release of Xsan 1.0, a group of us from Tekserve launched Xsanity. Our intention was to create:

...a community for Xsan users, experts with individual relevant specialties. Here we can pool our knowledge and maybe make our jobs just a little easier.

Today we have over 500 registered users, some of the brightest minds around. This stellar group has contributed 80 feature articles and 1,359 forum posts. And we are noticed: last month, we served up over 100,000 pages.

And today we are making two announcements: a media gallery for Xsan setup diagrams, and five iPod Shuffles to give away!

The idea of the media gallery is cliche: pictures are worth a thousand words. There's nothing like a great OmniGraffle of your SAN to explain it to someone else. And while lots and lots of SANs will look basically alike, there are plenty of people with truly unique, creative setups.

And to kick off the gallery, we are giving away five engraved Tekserve/Xsanity NAB2007 iPod Shuffles to people who help get it started. There are two categories: Fastest and Best. One set of Shuffles for the first two diagrams uploaded, and another set for the best diagrams (most complete, easiest to understand, most creative).

The contest ends May 1, so start your graffles!