Comments on: Industry analysts and conflicts http://www.aboutrestore.com/2008/09/03/industry-analysts-and-conflicts/ Blogging about backup, recovery and marketing in the storage industry. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:42:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: JL http://www.aboutrestore.com/2008/09/03/industry-analysts-and-conflicts/comment-page-1/#comment-111 JL Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:13:11 +0000 http://www.aboutrestore.com/?p=140#comment-111 I agree with your assessment and find the situation troubling. I have no problem with analysts expressing their opinions and even being paid to do so. The problem is when articles are published as unbiased when they really are not which seems to be a trend for this author. (I posted about the articles on eWeek and B&S, and there is a second article on B&S.) To those of us in the industry, the inaccuracies in the articles are immediately obvious. The huge issue is that the average reader will not know the industry as well and will assume that the best solutions must match the author's description (e.g. DD and Gresham). This is far from accurate and there are many other options out there. The author is doing a disservice to the publications, end users and other vendors by providing a skewed perspective. I agree with your assessment and find the situation troubling. I have no problem with analysts expressing their opinions and even being paid to do so. The problem is when articles are published as unbiased when they really are not which seems to be a trend for this author. (I posted about the articles on eWeek and B&S, and there is a second article on B&S.)

To those of us in the industry, the inaccuracies in the articles are immediately obvious. The huge issue is that the average reader will not know the industry as well and will assume that the best solutions must match the author’s description (e.g. DD and Gresham). This is far from accurate and there are many other options out there. The author is doing a disservice to the publications, end users and other vendors by providing a skewed perspective.

]]> By: Interested Party http://www.aboutrestore.com/2008/09/03/industry-analysts-and-conflicts/comment-page-1/#comment-91 Interested Party Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:05:32 +0000 http://www.aboutrestore.com/?p=140#comment-91 George is nothing but a shill for whoever will pay him. Right now that appears to be Data Domain and Gresham, as he talks about nothing but inline deduplication (Data Domain) and backup virtualization (Gresham). He's not talking to other vendors and doesn't know much about backups either. He confuses things like thinking that inline deduplication and VTL are mutually exclusive. I think Diligent would have something to say about that. He's been implementing the wrong VTLs if he thinks they're complex to setup. Hello George! EVERY disk-thingy-for-backups has disk behind it and needs to be setup. Being a VTL or not has nothing to do with it. And what's with that comment that even if you had a larger VTL cache, you can't restore from disk? What POS backup product or VTL is he using? VTLs don't reduce media purchases. Small ones don't, but who wants one of those? "Unlike VTLs, only the unique segments are stored on the data deduplication device." As if VTLs can't do deduplication and replication? His last two paragraphs can be summed up as "buy Data Domain or Gresham." Come ON! Can you even TRY to be objective? Or to understand the subject you're writing about? George is nothing but a shill for whoever will pay him. Right now that appears to be Data Domain and Gresham, as he talks about nothing but inline deduplication (Data Domain) and backup virtualization (Gresham).

He’s not talking to other vendors and doesn’t know much about backups either. He confuses things like thinking that inline deduplication and VTL are mutually exclusive. I think Diligent would have something to say about that. He’s been implementing the wrong VTLs if he thinks they’re complex to setup. Hello George! EVERY disk-thingy-for-backups has disk behind it and needs to be setup. Being a VTL or not has nothing to do with it. And what’s with that comment that even if you had a larger VTL cache, you can’t restore from disk? What POS backup product or VTL is he using? VTLs don’t reduce media purchases. Small ones don’t, but who wants one of those?

“Unlike VTLs, only the unique segments are stored on the data deduplication device.” As if VTLs can’t do deduplication and replication?

His last two paragraphs can be summed up as “buy Data Domain or Gresham.” Come ON! Can you even TRY to be objective? Or to understand the subject you’re writing about?

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