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Your Mileage May Vary: Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks

September 22, 2015 By Stephen 3 Comments

The hot story in the news this week is Volkswagen's reported brazen cheating in diesel engine emissions testing. This brought to mind a host of similar occurrences, from Samsung/HTC cheating at benchmarks to alleged cheating in SPC enterprise storage performance testing. Cynics say we should just assume we're being cheated, but is this a world in which we want to … [Read more...] about Your Mileage May Vary: Lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks

How to Get Me to Write about Your Company or Product

March 15, 2012 By Stephen 2 Comments

Blog posts are really, really important for PR and awareness these days. And posts on independent sites like this one are critical to get awareness and search engine ranking. I get dozens of requests every week from companies wanting me to write about them. So I thought it would be a good idea to lay out exactly what it takes! You Can't Buy Posts or Links Here This blog is … [Read more...] about How to Get Me to Write about Your Company or Product

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