TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com Announces “Best of VMworld” 2010 Award Winners

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The editors of technology media company TechTarget, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: TTGT) SearchServerVirtualization.com™ has announced the winners of the “Best of VMworld” 2010 Awards, selected from more than 200 product entrants at the VMworld 2010 conference being held this week at the Moscone Center in San Francisco and sponsored by VMware, Inc.

For the fourth straight year, TechTarget’s SearchServerVirtualization.com has been the official media partner for the VMworld Awards. Its independent team of judges, consisting of experts and editors from SearchServerVirtualization.com and its sister sites, SearchVMware.com™ and SearchVirtualDesktop.com™, reviewed and evaluated the products according to innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use.

The awards span nine categories: business continuity and data protection; security and virtualization; virtualization management; hardware for virtualization; desktop virtualization; private cloud computing technologies; public/hybrid cloud computing technologies; new technology, and best of show.

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. Judges selected the winner in the Best of Show category.

The Best of Show award was presented to Veeam Software for Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0 Enterprise Edition.

The Winners

Category: Business Continuity and Data Protection
Gold: Symantec Corp., NetBackup 7
Finalist: Veeam Software, Veeam Backup & Replication 4

Category: Security and Virtualization
Gold: VMware Inc., vShield
Finalist: HyTrust, HyTrust Appliance
Finalist: Catbird Networks Inc., Catbird vCompliance 1.1

Category: Virtualization Management
Gold: VKernel Corp., VKernel Capacity Management Suite
Finalist: Xangati Inc., Xangati Management Dashboard
Finalist: Veeam Software, Veeam ONE Solution

Category: Hardware for Virtualization
Gold: Cisco Systems Inc., Cisco Nexus 7000 Overlay Transport Virtualization
Finalist: Compellent Technologies, Compellent Storage Center 5
Finalist: Xsigo Systems, VP780 and VP560 I/O Director

Category: Desktop Virtualization
Gold: Kaviza, Kaviza VDI in-a-box 3.0
Finalist: Wanova Inc., Wanova Mirage
Finalist: Virtual Computer Inc., NxTop

Category: Private Cloud Computing Technologies
Gold: newScale Inc., newScale 9
Finalist: rPath, rBuilder

Category: Public/Hybrid Cloud Computing Technologies
Gold: Terremark Worldwide, Enterprise Cloud
Finalist: Skytap Inc., Skytap Cloud
Finalist: Microsoft Corp., Windows Azure

Category: New Technology
Gold: Veeam Software, Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0 Enterprise Edition
Finalist: Gluster Inc., Gluster Storage Platform

Category: Best of Show
Winner: Veeam Software, Veeam Backup & Replication 5.0 Enterprise Edition

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 architecture 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. And sister site SearchVirtualDesktop.com is the premier source for information on desktop virtualization, application virtualization, and virtual desktop infrastructure.

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