Although I have never used Litespeed 2005 (I used the previous version) and, by all accounts, it is an excellent product I would have respected your review more if you had done some more serious analysis of the speed claims.

You say that you backed up Northwind in 3.78 seconds? Why is that impressive? Maybe I am missing something here but vanilla Northwind on my laptop backs up in about 2 seconds using the standard SQL Server tools. Is there more data in your Northwind database?

You would have done yourself and Imceda more justice by giving a realistic third party assessment of their main claims for the product i.e. Speed, compression and encryption.  I just didn't get the impression that you had actually tested the product in a real world situation - most of the facts and figures are from Imceda themselves.

Also, in the bullet points it is stated that Litespeed can back up 2TB in under an hour, yet the figures below, also from Imceda, state that customers have found it takes 2 hours to back up 1TB.  What are the reasons for this inconsistency? hardware? configuration? typo? - we are simply left guessing.

Don't get me wrong, I like LiteSpeed and I believe it does it's job very well indeed it's just that I found your review a little too gushing and short on hard analysis which makes me inclined to question your conclusions.