Hostile benchmarking

When you write 'a vendor, who doesn´t publish benchmarks on it´s own', do you mean the independent testing company who NetApp paid (but does not name in the press release)? Or EMC (who NetApp certainly DOES name in the press release)?

Say that EMC

1) Routinely paid a benchmarking company to
run standard benchmarks on EMC products and

2) Published the results of those benchmarks

Then I would consider it a good protocol for only EMC to release benchmark results for EMC products


And say that NetApp

1) Paid a second benchmarking company to run
run standard benchmarks on EMC products and

2) Published the results of those benchmarks

Then I would consider it a breach of a good protocol for NetApp to release benchmark results for EMC products


But if EMC does not routinely release the results of standard benchmarks on EMC products, then I would consider it a BAD protocol for only EMC to release benchmark results for EMC products.

EMC can easily remedy the situation by releasing the results of benchmarks that it does not currently release. If NetApp's release of benchmark results for EMC products is effective for NetApp, then I agree with the Commenter named 'flawed'

It also might prompt the competitor to
publish benchmarks themselves

If NetApp's release of benchmark results for EMC products is NOT effective for NetApp, then no harm done