Given tight budgets, short staffs and ever-increasing data volumes, we decided on the following criteria as being most critical:
- Innovation
- Performance
- Ease of integration into environment
- Ease of use and manageability
- Functionality
- Value
And so we solicited nominations from vendors, scoured the market for our own nominations and recruited a panel of judges composed of independent industry experts, storage managers and editors. They reviewed a total of 39 products in five major categories. The results are presented within.
You'll see products that are simply the best at what you're doing now, that next step in the evolution of current technology. You'll see products that are just the opposite - they break the mold and let you go where you've been unable to go. None are a panacea - all have to be evaluated as part of your overall storage infrastructure. But we think you'll agree they all have a mix of valuable attributes that when matched to the right task in the right environment, advance the state of the art in storage.
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