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Quality Awards IV: On top again: CommVault Galaxy, EMC Retrospect  - Sep 2008
CommVault's Galaxy solidified its position as the top enterprise backup product by finishing first for the third time in the four years we've conducted the Quality Awards. Among the midrange products, EMC Retrospect retained its crown as group champion.

Quality Awards IV: It's a tie--EMC and NetApp share enterprise array honors  - Aug 2008
In the four years we've conducted our Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for enterprise arrays, we've never had co-winners ... until now. EMC Corp. rode to the top on very strong scores in the product features and reliability sections, while co-winner NetApp was a model of consistency.

QUALITY AWARDS III: NetApp sweeps NAS awards  - Jun 2008
After a clean sweep of both the enterprise and midrange categories, NetApp is the undisputed NAS king. BlueArc Corp., last year's enterprise winner, didn't have a chance to challenge NetApp with too few responses to make the final cut.

QUALITY AWARDS III: Compellent shakes up midrange array field  - Apr 2008
No "big name" vendor has yet won the top spot in our Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards for midrange arrays. This year, two relative newcomers--Compellent and EqualLogic--topped the field of competitors.

Quality Awards III: IBM and Sun shine among tape libraries  - Mar 2008
Despite their mechanical components, the reliability of tape libraries ranks high among respondents to our Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards. This year, IBM takes top honors in the enterprise category, while Sun reigns supreme among midrange products.

CommVault Galaxy, EMC Retrospect best of the backup apps  - Sep 2007
In general, product ratings for the third annual Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for backup and recovery software increased over last year's scores. CommVault's Galaxy, this year's enterprise-class winner, returned to the winner's circle after losing its crown to BakBone NetVault: Backup last year. In the SMB area, EMC's Retrospect also returned to the top spot after a one-year hiatus.

HDS reigns over enterprise arrays ... again  - Jul 2007
The third annual Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for enterprise arrays saw some changes among the vendors, but a familiar theme prevailed as Hitachi Data Systems copped top honors for the third time.

Upstart tops NAS vendors  - Jun 2007
In our second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Award for NAS systems, large NAS vendors like Network Appliance and EMC scored well, but a lesser known company emerged as the surprise winner of enterprise NAS.

Quality Awards II: Leading libraries  - Jan 2007
Although they're the most mechanical part of a backup system, users are fairly satisfied with the reliability of their tape libraries. And despite high-profile consolidation among tape library vendors, the results of the second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards largely reinforced last year's results.

Quality Awards II: EqualLogic emerges as top midrange array  - Dec 2006
The second edition of the Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards turned up yet another surprise winner, this time for midrange arrays. In its first year in our survey, EqualLogic snagged the top spot with its PS Series of storage arrays.

Quality Awards II: Surprise Winner--BakBone NetVault is leader of the backup pack  - Nov 2006
BakBone Software Inc.'s NetVault, which ranked near the bottom in our 2005 survey, is this year's enterprise-class backup and recovery software winner. We'll tell you how BakBone pulled off this stunning turnaround.

Quality Awards II: The elite of enterprise arrays  - Sep 2006
Hitachi Data Systems consolidates its claim as the top-rated enterprise array by sweeping all five user-experience categories in the 2006 edition of our survey.

Quality Awards: Top NAS products  - May 2006
In the latest Diogenes Labs-Storage Quality Awards survey, users chose enterprise and midrange NAS winners from more than 20 product lines. A NAS mainstay and a relative newcomer to the category took the top honors.

Top tape libraries revealed  - Jan 2006
Read the results of the fourth Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards, which focuses on midrange and enterprise tape libraries. Unlike past Quality Awards, where lesser known companies triumphed, the winners this time around are more familiar names and established backup players.

Quality Awards: What are the best midrange arrays?  - Nov 2005
Midrange array users are a generally satisfied group, according to the latest Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards survey. While all midrange array vendors fared quite well in this third installment of our awards program, the vendor that snared top honors might surprise some people.

Quality Awards: Backup software  - Sep 2005
The latest Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards has hands-on users rating 14 enterprise and SMB backup products for service and reliability.

Quality awards: Enterprise arrays  - Aug 2005
We present the results of the first-ever Diogenes Labs-Storage magazine Quality Awards. In the inaugural product category, enterprise arrays, see how users rated the major array vendors and which vendor came out on top.




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