Asigra's Televaulting for Enterprises: First backup and restore software to provide agentless bare-metal restore capabilities. With this software, administrators can quickly recover lost, damaged or corrupted data to any bare-metal system without manually reinstalling operating systems or configure hardware prior to use, Asigra says.

Broadcom RAIDcore BC4410 and BC4810: First RAID controllers to feature software-upgradeable RAID 5. By default, the two Serial ATA RAID cards support RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10. By purchasing a software license key, users can upgrade to RAID 5 and 50, as well as online capacity expansion, RAID-level migration, controller spanning, distributed sparing, online array creation and deletion, and multiple array types per drive. The four-channel BC4410 has an MSRP of $129; the eight-channel BC4810 retails for $205. The license upgrade costs $180 for the BC4410 and $199 for the BC4810.