[September 08, 2009] TechTarget's SearchServerVirtualization.com Names Official Best of VMworld 2009 Award Winners Tweet Sep 05, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- The editors of TechTarget Inc.'s SearchServerVirtualization.com have announced the winners of the Best of VMworld 2009 Awards, selected from more than 175 product entrants at the VMworld 2009 conference being held this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and sponsored by VMware. For the third straight year, TechTarget said it has been the official media partner for the VMworld Awards. Their independent team of judges consisting of editors from SearchServerVirtualization.com and its sister sites, SearchVMware.com and SearchVirtualDesktop.com, said they reviewed and evaluated the products according to innovation, performance, reliability and ease of use. The awards span eight categories: business continuity and data protection; security and virtualization; virtualization management; hardware for virtualization; desktop virtualization; cloud computing technologies; new technology, and best of show. Only products currently available for purchase were considered for all categories. Products being demonstrated but not available for purchase were considered only for the New Technology category. The Best of Show award was presented to Hytrust for Hytrust Appliance. The Winners Category: Business Continuity and Data Protection Gold: Vizioncore, vRanger Pro 4.0 Finalist: Veeam Software Inc., Veeam Backup & Replication Finalist: PHD Virtual Technologies, esXpress n 3.6 Category: Security and Virtualization Gold: Hytrust, Hytrust Appliance Finalist: Catbird Networks, Catbird vCompliance Category: Virtualization Management Gold: Netuitive, Netuitive SI for Virtual Data Centers Finalist: Veeam Software, Veeam Management Suite Finalist: Embotics, V-Commander 3.0 Category: Hardware for Virtualization Gold: Cisco Systems, Unified Computing System Finalist: Xsigo Systems, VP780 I/O Director 2.0 Finalist: Afore Solutions, ASE3300 Category: Desktop Virtualization Gold: AppSense, AppSense Environment Manager, 8.0 Finalist: Liquidware Labs, Stratusphere Finalist: Virtual Computer, NxTop Category: Cloud Computing Technologies Gold: Mellanox Technologies, Italio Cloud Appliance Finalist: InContinuum Software, CloudController v 1.5 Finalist: Catbird Networks, Catbird V-Security Cloud Edition Category: New Technology Winner: VirtenSys, Virtensys IOV switch VMX-500LSR Category: Best of Show Winner: Hytrust, Hytrust Appliance ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]