So I’m pretty sure when I signed up I did not check the checkbox saying to send me white papers. But maybe I had a brain fart, and I just don’t remember that.
Anyway, this morning I get an email touting the following:
TechRepublic White Papers
Read About the ROI of Wide-Area Data Services
We know how it is: The heat you’re under to improve systems and application performance is rising while your IT budget shrinks, so you have to make do with the infrastructure you already have to meet the escalating demands.
Wide-area data services (WDS) can help. WDS improves WAN performance while reducing your server and bandwidth needs. Other benefits include fewer replicated databases, less storage and less power consumption. To read more about the positive ROI of WDS, check out today’s featured offering from the TechRepublic White Papers Library.
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Now, I don’t know about you, but I read that to be “this is a TechRepublic white paper”. I mean, wouldn’t that be what you would get from the TechRepublic White Papers Library?
I don’t mind advertisements that are clearly advertisements. I’d read a Riverbed white paper, but this said it was a TechRepublic white paper. I really wanted to read that.
I do mind statements that lie. And this email did precisely that.
So I went to figure out how to send my thoughts on this to the management. Well, good luck with that.
