Publishing Nutanix performance info violates the Nutanix EULA. So that just happened.
Meanwhile, back in this reality, people know How to Lie With Statistics (by D. Huff) and decision-makers know that benchmarks can't be trusted. However, a global (Thank you Internet!) trend tells a different story than a single benchmark study performed under questionable circumstances.
It's true that many companies have some sort of EULA language that discourages the sharing of performance data because a simple graph doesn't show anything remotely conclusive in the absence of context.
My trust in tech decision-makers leads me to believe that people who are looking for performance data will be able to distinguish whether it's a synthetic lab benchmark or a real world workload example.
Apparently the folks at Nutanix, who were (by their own admission) buying VCDX cert holders to bolster the credibility of their brand, think that it would be better for you (and them) if you didn't view the performance reports of actual Nutanix users.
Here's the first of three posts @ VMware worth reading (even though it too has it's share of "we are better because!"), especially the comments.
http://blogs.vmware.com/storage/2015/06/03/vsan-vs-nutanix-head-head-performance-testing-part-1/
Meanwhile, back in this reality, people know How to Lie With Statistics (by D. Huff) and decision-makers know that benchmarks can't be trusted. However, a global (Thank you Internet!) trend tells a different story than a single benchmark study performed under questionable circumstances.
It's true that many companies have some sort of EULA language that discourages the sharing of performance data because a simple graph doesn't show anything remotely conclusive in the absence of context.
My trust in tech decision-makers leads me to believe that people who are looking for performance data will be able to distinguish whether it's a synthetic lab benchmark or a real world workload example.
Apparently the folks at Nutanix, who were (by their own admission) buying VCDX cert holders to bolster the credibility of their brand, think that it would be better for you (and them) if you didn't view the performance reports of actual Nutanix users.
Here's the first of three posts @ VMware worth reading (even though it too has it's share of "we are better because!"), especially the comments.
http://blogs.vmware.com/storage/2015/06/03/vsan-vs-nutanix-head-head-performance-testing-part-1/