why aren't all 7 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
White: Sailthru's co-location hardware paid off within one year
“We looked at it, and it paid off in basically a year after, after purchasing that hardware.”
Disclosure
Sailthru moved its infrastructure off AWS cloud to co-location in 2012
“By 2012, our ops team had grown to the size where it made sense, both on a capex basis and on an operational basis, just to move off of the cloud, to move our infrastructure off of AWS and into our own colo.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sailthru processes roughly half a billion events every day
“We process about half a billion events every day.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
White: Sailthru has 500 million users in its database
“Each of the five hundred million users we have in our database is a distinct person who has distinct interests and we can form a body of data about this individual which can help us reach that person.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
White: 80 to 90 percent of Sailthru's infrastructure is databases
“80, 90% of our infrastructure is databases because we're storing all this data.”
Disclosure
Sailthru uses MongoDB as its primary data store
“We use MongoDB as our primary data store.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sailthru operated hundreds of AWS nodes prior to late 2011
“Before the end of 2011, we had hundreds of nodes on AWS.”