Steve Kenniston, an Enterprise Storage Group Inc. analyst, agrees that only complete end-to-end tests are really of value. On the testing side, hardly anyone in IT believes these reports, because they don't test real-world application data sets or test with real-world configurations to make them viable, he says. A lot of times companies do these types of tests against strong competitors just to create FUD.
While Beeler claims that NSI would certainly prevail in a real-world scenario, he says the company isnt planning any retaliation tests. Customers, he says, are much more interested in things like how stable the product is, and how much CPU load they can expect from it.
Legato should spend more time building more stable products than manufacturing test results, he scoffs.
Regardless, though, Beeler believes that Legato's performance comparison test is in fact good publicity for his company. When youre in the No. 1 spot, people are continuously throwing rocks, he says. Its very nice of them to recognize us as an industry leader. This is just one more validation of that.
VeriTest says there was nothing manufactured about its test results. VeriTest believes that integrity and disclosure benefit everyone involved in the testing process, and we're committed to these guiding values, a company spokeswoman writes in an email.
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