2008 was a year marked by acquisitions but innovation continued, and the finalist list reflects that innovation is coming from the big guys as well as smaller, emerging companies.
The finalists in this year's storage Products of the Year competition are listed below, in five storage product categories: backup and disaster recovery software, backup hardware, disk and disk subsystems, storage management software, and storage networking equipment.
The winners will be announced in February.
Backup and disaster recovery software
Backup hardware
Disk and disk subsystems
Storage management software
Storage networking equipment
