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TechTarget's
Storage and SearchStorage.com Announce
2004 Storage “Products of the Year” Awards
Fifteen Products Make List of Best Storage Products Introduced and Shipped in 2004
NEEDHAM, Mass. --January 10, 2005 -- The editors of TechTarget's Storage and SearchStorage.com today released the third annual "Products of the Year" awards, published in the January issue of Storage and on SearchStorage.com at http://www.searchstorage.com/poty This year’s Awards, which had a record number of submissions from a record number of vendors, are dominated by smaller, emerging vendors of storage technologies. The Awards were selected according to the following criteria: innovation; performance; ease of integration into existing environments; ease of use and manageability; functionality; and value.
“The ‘Products of the Year’ selections were the result of the judges' review of a record number of submissions from a record number of storage vendors," said Mark Schlack, VP of Editorial, TechTarget Storage Media. "This wealth of entries enabled us to select as winners the very best of the many useful and innovative products released last year. The dominance of smaller, emerging vendors in every product category demonstrates that innovation and competition are thriving in the storage industry."
The awards were judged by the editors of Storage and SearchStorage.com, in conjunction with a team of data storage professionals, industry experts, analysts, and consultants. Judges selected a Gold, Silver, and Bronze winner in each of five categories:
- Backup and disaster recovery software
- Backup hardware
- Disk and disk subsystems
- Networking equipment
- Storage management
TechTarget's
Storage and SearchStorage.com 2004 Products of the Year
Backup and disaster recovery software
Gold:
XOsoft WANSyncHA
Silver:
Permabit’s Permeon Compliance Vault 1.2
Bronze:
Asigra Televaulting
Backup hardware
Gold: Sepaton’s S2100-ES VTL
Silver: Network Appliance NearStore R200
Bronze: Spectra Logic’s RXT/T950
Disk and disk subsystems
Gold: Hitachi Data Systems TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform
Silver: Adaptec Snap Server 18000
Bronze: Exanet ExaStore 2.0
Networking equipment
Gold: Acopia Networks ARX1000 and ARX6000 switches
Silver: NetEx HyperIP
Bronze: QLogic SANbox 5200 switch
Storage management
Gold: Onaro SANscreen
Silver: NuView StorageX 5.0
Bronze: Softek Performance Tuner 1.1
About Storage
TechTarget’s Storage is the only monthly publication that provides information technology (IT) executives, managers, and staff with in-depth analysis and forward-looking guidance on managing, storing, networking, and safeguarding the data at the core of large organizations. TechTarget distributes the magazine to a controlled, qualified circulation of 50,000 storage-focused IT professionals. Storage has received numerous awards, including the ASBPE Awards for Editorial Excellence and the Folio: Show “Ozzie” and “Eddie” Awards. In addition, the editorial staff of Storage has been named a finalist for the prestigious Jesse H. Neal Awards for Excellence in Business Journalism.
About SearchStorage.com
TechTarget’s SearchStorage.com is the number-one online destination for IT professionals charged with purchasing, implementing, and managing storage systems at the core of large- and medium-sized businesses. More than 290,000 storage-focused IT executives, managers, and staff rely on SearchStorage.com for the information they need to do their jobs. SearchStorage.com content includes original editorial features, news, expert storage advice, Webcasts, and white papers.
About TechTarget
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