Verification

• VAST Data's '29x Data Reduction' Claims: The Storage Industry's Most Brazen Lies

  VAST Data's co-founder claims customers see 8x to 29x capacity advantages versus HDFS. We expose the fraudulent math, the deliberate straw man, and why VAST has become the storage industry's most prolific source of misleading claims.

• Pure Storage's FlashBlade//EXA '10 TB/sec' Claim: When Vague Numbers Replace Real Benchmarks

  Pure Storage claims FlashBlade//EXA delivers 'more than 10 TB/sec' read performance. We analyze why this vague claim tells us almost nothing about real-world performance.

• VAST Data's 99.9991% Uptime and 10x Kafka Claims: The New Standard for Unverifiable Marketing

  VAST Data claims 99.9991% measured uptime (4.7 minutes downtime per year) and 10x performance advantage over Kafka. We analyze what these numbers actually mean and why they're nearly impossible to verify.

• VAST DataBase Benchmarks: The Numbers We Can't Verify

  VAST Data claims 25% faster than Iceberg, 60x faster updates, and 500M messages per second. The numbers are impressive—but without published methodology or independent verification, they remain marketing claims, not engineering data.