NEWTON, Mass. – Technology media company TechTarget, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTGT) announced the winners of the Best of VMworld Awards at the VMworld 2013 conference being held in San Francisco and sponsored by VMware, Inc.
As the official media partner for the VMworld Awards for the seventh year in a row, TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com™ staff appointed a team of experts and editors that selected winning products from more than 175 entries. The team judged the products according to their innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use.
The awards cover the following nine categories of the virtualization market: Storage and Backup for Virtualized Environments; Security and Compliance for Virtualization; Virtualization Management; Networking and Virtualization; Desktop Virtualization and End-User Computing; Private Cloud Computing Technologies; Public/Hybrid Cloud Computing Technologies; New Technology; and Best of Show.
The Best of Show award was presented to Eaton. The full list of winners was announced on SearchServerVirtualization.com along with short videos from the show and extensive conference coverage.
Only products currently available for purchase were considered for categories other than the New Technology category. Products being demonstrated, but not available for purchase, were considered only for the New Technology category.
The Winners
Category: Storage and Backup for Virtualized Environments
Winner: SimpliVity, OmniCube
Runner-up: Dell Software, Dell AppAssure 5.3.3
Runner-up: HotLink, HotLink DR Express
Category: Security and Compliance for Virtualization
Winner: AFORE Solutions, CloudLink Secure VSA
Runner-up: Intigua, Intigua Virtual Containers
Category: Virtualization Management
Winner: Eaton, Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.3
Runner-up: CloudPhysics, CloudPhysics
Runner-up: Puppet Labs, Puppet Enterprise 3.0
Category: Networking and Virtualization
Winner: PLUMgrid, PLUMgrid Platform
Runner-up: Anuta Networks, nCloudX 1.7
Runner-up: Cumulus Networks, Cumulus Linux 1.5
Category: Desktop Virtualization and End-User Computing
Winner: Lakeside Software, SysTrack Resolve 6.1
Runner-up: Atlantis Computing, Atlantis ILIO Persistent VDI 4.0
Runner-up: GreenBytes, GreenBytes IO Offload Engine
Category: Private Cloud Computing Technologies
Winner: Nutanix, NX-6270
Runner-up: Metacloud, Carbon|OS
Runner-up: Piston Cloud, Piston Enterprise OpenStack 2.0
Category: Public/Hybrid Cloud Computing Technologies
Winner: Embotics, vCommander 5.0
Runner-up: ElasticBox, ElasticBox 2.0
Runner-up: HotLink, HotLink Hybrid Express 2.0
Category: New Technology
Winner: Neverfail Group, Neverfail IT Continuity Architect
Runner-up: Infinio, Infinio Accelerator
Runner-up: PernixData, PernixData FVP
Category: Best of Show
Winner: Eaton, Eaton Intelligent Power Manager 1.3
Judges’ Choice – recognition for a product not nominated for the Best of VMworld 2013 Awards
Winner: NVIDIA, NVIDIA GRID
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About SearchServerVirtualization.com
SearchServerVirtualization.com is an enterprise virtualization-focused website providing IT professionals and the community with the latest server virtualization news, articles, tips, and expert advice. Other virtualization information includes webcasts and industry white papers covering all areas of server virtualization, such as virtualization platforms, server hardware, managing virtual environments, virtualization architectures and strategies, application issues and more.
Its sister site, SearchVMware.com™, is dedicated to helping IT organizations evaluate products, services and business strategies that can lead them to successful implementations of virtualization technologies in VMware environments. Another sister site, SearchVirtualDesktop.com™ is the premier source for information on desktop virtualization, application virtualization, and virtual desktop infrastructure.
