Netting Out NetBackup

I bought a box of Frosted Flakes recently - this was a departure from my usual diet of Froot Loops, I make my life very exciting with these spontaneous bursts of adventure. One thing I noticed on my box of Frosted Flakes was a big bright bubble that said, "Less sugar!" and in much smaller letters beneath it, "than original Frosted Flakes." This is of course a meaningless comparison. Less sugar than the original may still mean "way too much sugar." 

In the technology industry, one of the tactics software companies sometimes use to increase the chance of closing a sale is "FUD": Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, which basically means injecting misleading information into a sale process. There has been some interesting FUD circulating around backup vendor support for VMware's ESX and ESXi platforms. ESXi and ESX are essentially identical from a functionality perspective. To quote VMware.com, "...