This week, Chris E is joined by Chris Mellor and returning guest Eran Brown. The team discuss the usefulness of storage vendor guarantees like de-dupe ratios and uptime. Do vendors use these metrics as a marketing tactic to attract new customers or is there any value in them? The idea of a sales/marketing guarantee sounds appealing. Storage vendors have been using them for years to entice customers and offer some sort of incentive to buy. Most recently we’ve seen de-dupe and compression ratios being a battleground for optimising the cost of all-flash arrays. Digging down, …
