Best storage products of the year |
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By SearchStorage.com & Storage magazine editors
06 Jan 2003 | SearchStorage.com and Storage magazine |
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Turbulent economic times resulted in a year that was marked by many stops, starts and shifts in product development. Despite a down economy, many new products hit the market, including some that were highly innovative.
The editors of Storage and SearchStorage.com sat down this past fall to assess the 2002 crop, with an eye toward helping you choose those products that you have to include on your "A" list for evaluation. From our conversations with storage managers, we knew that innovation -- while certainly the hallmark of great new products -- wasn't sufficient to single out such products.
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
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.
2002 Products of the Year
DISK & DISK SUBSYSTEMS
Gold: Nexsan InfiniSAN ATAboy2
Silver: Network Appliance FAS900 Series
Bronze: 3PAR Utility Storage System
NETWORKING EQUIPMENT
Gold: Brocade SilkWorm 3200
Silver: McData Intrepid 6140 Director
Bronze: Emulex LightPulse LP9802 HBA
BACKUP HARDWARE
Gold: Overland Neo Series 4000
Silver: ADIC Scalar 24
Bronze: Quantum DX30
BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY SOFTWARE
Gold: CommVault Galaxy 4.1
Silver: Bocada BackupReport Suite 2.0
Bronze: Veritas NetBackup 4.5
STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Gold: Fujitsu Softek Storage Manager
Silver: FalconStor IPStor
Bronze: Veritas SANPoint Control 3.5
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