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Flash makes servers go with a Bang, benchmarks show

Flash arrays have enabled Dell and Fujitsu server iron to boast brilliant VMmark results. Dell PowerEdge R720 servers scored 11.39 at 10 tiles in the VMware VMmark 2.1 benchmark. AS El Reg wrote when noting HP server success at this: VMware's VMmark benchmark measures how a server runs simultaneous VMware virtual machines (VMs …

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Graph fail

Unlabelled Y axis which doesn't start at zero.

Kill it with fire.

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Re: Graph fail

It can be legitimate to not start from zero. Sometimes the relative differences are more important than the absolute differences. Starting from zero can hide the relative differences (and therefore in certain situations can itself be misleading).

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Relative differences are expressed in percent.

All fail

Sum total of variance is 1.41 of something, is that a wow or a damp squib?

Servers just leave me cold.

Meh!

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