While 2009 was a bleak year economically, it didn't stifle the continuing technological developments of many enterprise data storage equipment vendors. These 40 finalists for Storage magazine's and SearchStorage.com's 2009 Products of the Year awards demonstrate exceptional innovation, functionality and value.
The finalists in this year's competition are broken into five storage product categories: backup and disaster recovery (DR) hardware, backup and disaster recovery software and services, disks and disk subsystems, storage management tools and storage networking equipment.
Backup and disaster recovery (DR) hardware
Backup and disaster recovery (DR) software and services
Disks and disk subsystems
Storage management tools
Storage networking equipment
UPDATE: Find out which products have won the 2009 enterprise data storage Products of the Year.