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IBM wrong at top of their voice and IBM JS22 power6 blade

Thursday Nov 08, 2007

Even IBM expert blogs continue to trumpet bad data. In the previous posting I pointed out the problems, please see BM Seer's "IBM JS22 Power6 blades not the performance you think"

While, I realize that over-excited IBM marketing types may tend to overstate and make bad claims, but IBM's performance blog expert too?

    IBM's Stahl writes: Equally compelling is the analysis that one rack of IBM's new POWER6 processor-based blades is so powerful when virtualized that it can replace many non-virtualized racks of Sun's latest V490 servers, potentially saving a ton in energy costs.
Interesting that in a previous posting she complained of an HP comparison because they used their own test. In the IBM JS22 comparison, IBM comes up with their own baseless 'Sun is three times worse' derating factor.

I guess IBM uses something learned from Lucy in Peanuts cartoon: "If you can't be right, .... be wrong at the top of your voice!"

So in how many more blogs, ads, and other marketing material will we see this comparison? My guess is LOTS at the top of their voice!

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Posted at 01:51PM Nov 08, 2007 in IBM Follies
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