Channel Strategies for the CIOSearchStorage.com and Storage magazine judges sifted through almost 200 entrants to its 2009 Products of the Year competition, narrowed the list down to 40 finalists and have chosen three winners in each of five categories: backup and disaster recovery hardware, backup and DR software and services, disks and disk subsystems, storage management tools and storage networking equipment. See which 15 products won awards.
2009
PRODUCTS OF THE YEAR WINNERS
Backup and DR hardware
Backup and DR software and services
Disks and disk subsystems
Storage management tools
Storage networking equipment
Backup
and DR hardware
The Gold Award winner in this Products of the Year category goes to a product that combines two
popular trends: scale-out NAS management and data deduping.
Backup
and DR software and services
The Gold Award winner in the backup and DR software and services category was recognized for its
ability to dedupe data on tape and dedupe remote site backups -- and consolidate all deduplication
results in a database.
Disks
and disk subsystems
The Gold Award winner among disk and disk subsystems entrants provides mesh-active quad-controller
technology, thin provisioning ASIC and management software. It can also help convert fat volumes to
thin and keep them thin over time.
Storage
management tools
The Gold Award winner among storage management tools added analysis for SAN switches from Brocade
and Cisco, as well as better metrics for virtual machines (VMs) and storage, in 2009.
Storage
networking equipment
The Products of the Year storage networking equipment Gold Award winner can selectively apply
admin-created performance profiles to users and applications, to ensure adequate resources for them
and enable better confidence around scaling and tiering storage resources.
This was first published in February 2010