Words and photos by T.J. DeGroat

I’ve attended my fair share of parties since joining the Web 2.0 world last fall as GUBA’s community advocate and I am confident in saying that Thursday evening’s Drobo party at Varnish was one of the coolest I’ve been to. From the sci-fi movie posters and robot centerpieces to the coffee bar and huge candy spread, the team at Data Robotics went to great lengths to turn the commonly used art gallery/bar into a totally different world, one where a creature called Drobo reigns supreme.

Everywhere I looked I was reminded why I was at Varnish — to check out Data Robotics’ multi-drive autonomous data storage “robot.”

What is Drobo? The relatively small machine combines up to four hard drives into one pool of protected storage. For more on Drobo, check out Scott Beale’s great write-up.

The robot theme was carried throughout

Stephen Baum of GUBA and Andrew Kippen of LIVEdigitally

Varnish co-owner Jen Rogers

For more scenes from the party, check out T.J. DeGroat’s photo set. Follow us on Twitter and watch us live on Justin.tv.

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