Do You Validate?
I left the house in a rush to get to my meeting in downtown Minneapolis and was thrilled to find a parking structure that had room to park still. As I pulled up the ramp to swipe my credit card, I realized that I had in my haste left the house without my wallet and had about $11.00 cash in my pocket.
I had a 3 hour meeting and knew that there was no way that I was going to get out of this mess without some stroke of luck. All through the meeting the notion of borrowing money for parking from my client gave me the cold chills and I actually texted a buddy who worked nearby to ask if he could come bail me out if I needed.
The meeting ended, and as I was in the lobby chatting with my client about going fishing the next week the receptionist asked me "May I validate your ticket Jim?" I almost kissed her I was so relieved, but instead slid my ticket across the desk and let out a silent sigh of relief. I had been validated....that had a nice ring to it.
Validation is a nice word, whether your boss validates your work, you wife validates your cooking, or your kids validate that you are still reasonably cool, validation is a great feeling! Validation sometimes comes from the most unlikely sources it seems and recently DCIG was validated in such a way.
You may remember that in December we released our Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide and that the release caused a pretty substantial stir in the market and blogosphere. The criticism was that certainly something in our research was off substantially because Commvault should not have won in the estimation of some of the "experts" that were criticizing DCIG and its research.
However DCIG stood by its work and did not bend to the critics on the results at all. We knew that our work was good and that the research was sound, but we were being roundly criticized from many outlets for several weeks.
Here is where validation becomes so nice....On January 28th Gartner released its magic quadrant for Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery and guess what???? The Gartner Group validated the results of the Buyer's Guide and in doing so similarly validated DCIG's findings, because....wait for it.....Commvault came out as the top company in Gartner's Magic Quadrant.
I have to say that I was tremendously gratified and had a chuckle along with some of our analysts here at DCIG. In fact the Gartner results bear out our results even beyond the Commvault results because, even more interestingly, the company that was the chief critic of our guide did not even get plotted on the Magic Quadrant AT ALL!
Validation is a sweet thing, and while we don't totally agree with Gartner on a number of things; we do appreciate the validation it provided for our research.
I had a 3 hour meeting and knew that there was no way that I was going to get out of this mess without some stroke of luck. All through the meeting the notion of borrowing money for parking from my client gave me the cold chills and I actually texted a buddy who worked nearby to ask if he could come bail me out if I needed.The meeting ended, and as I was in the lobby chatting with my client about going fishing the next week the receptionist asked me "May I validate your ticket Jim?" I almost kissed her I was so relieved, but instead slid my ticket across the desk and let out a silent sigh of relief. I had been validated....that had a nice ring to it.
Validation is a nice word, whether your boss validates your work, you wife validates your cooking, or your kids validate that you are still reasonably cool, validation is a great feeling! Validation sometimes comes from the most unlikely sources it seems and recently DCIG was validated in such a way.
You may remember that in December we released our Virtual Server Backup Software Buyer's Guide and that the release caused a pretty substantial stir in the market and blogosphere. The criticism was that certainly something in our research was off substantially because Commvault should not have won in the estimation of some of the "experts" that were criticizing DCIG and its research.
However DCIG stood by its work and did not bend to the critics on the results at all. We knew that our work was good and that the research was sound, but we were being roundly criticized from many outlets for several weeks.
Here is where validation becomes so nice....On January 28th Gartner released its magic quadrant for Enterprise Disk-Based Backup/Recovery and guess what???? The Gartner Group validated the results of the Buyer's Guide and in doing so similarly validated DCIG's findings, because....wait for it.....Commvault came out as the top company in Gartner's Magic Quadrant.
I have to say that I was tremendously gratified and had a chuckle along with some of our analysts here at DCIG. In fact the Gartner results bear out our results even beyond the Commvault results because, even more interestingly, the company that was the chief critic of our guide did not even get plotted on the Magic Quadrant AT ALL!
Validation is a sweet thing, and while we don't totally agree with Gartner on a number of things; we do appreciate the validation it provided for our research.
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