‘Twas the night before Monday and all through the room
Heads bent over keyboards as the deadline did loom.
All the desks were strewn carelessly with pizza half-eaten
Soda cans and coffee cups and egos now beaten.

The clock was ticking slowly as still they all sat
While visions of home and sleep flew past just like that.

Alas the darn project had run long once again
And the CTO as always had ordered his men:
“You’ll stay here all night ‘til the problem you fix
Lest when they come in all the users be pissed.”

So the IT staff was pulling yet another all-nighter
And this one now promised to be a nail-biter.

They were moving the firm’s data from a tired old NAS
When someone discovered some shares that they’d passed:
Enormous in size and quite critical to all
The shares?  Very big.  Time to morning?  Very small.

A fix to this problem was hard to conceive
And everyone on staff was past ready to leave.
When suddenly through the doorway Klavs Landberg came bounding
Wearing AutoVirt blue and cheerfully shouting,

“Don’t worry, with AutoVirt your problems will vanish
Our simple global namespace makes it easy to manage.
You’ll move all your data now faster than ever
What you don’t move tonight: move tomorrow – move whenever!

Users access the old server just the same as before
And with AutoVirt in place you’ll benefit still more:
When you move any data from old server to new
AutoVirt automatically patches your users straight through.

Move a share at a time – or three, maybe four
Keep both servers live ‘til you’re done with the chore.”

The room silenced with surprise.  Could it be Klavs was right?
With AutoVirt installed, they drove home for the night.

Next morning IT staff came in rather nervous
Had the AutoVirt bet left users without service?
A quick survey revealed that all had gone well
Data was spread between servers, yet no one could tell.

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…and to all a good night.