The truth about benchmarks and performance

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Channel: Red Hat · 2009 · Science & Technology

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This video, one of many in the Red Hat Stories series, describes what benchmarking is and how it is useful to customers--and what the pitfalls can be. 

Nick Carr, Director of Product Marketing and Doug Shakshober, a Senior Consulting Engineer, discuss performance and the way that organizations measure performance with specific, single-category benchmarks. 

"... the benchmarks are really only a metric to try to show a customer how well an operating system and a solution will work for their environment."
- Douglas Shakshober

Find out more about the benchmarks and metrics Red Hat uses:
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/details/benchmarks/

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