2003 Storage Products of the Year |
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By SearchStorage.com & Storage magazine editors
30 Dec 2003 | SearchStorage.com & Storage magazine |
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Many storage managers had a heads-down 2003, struggling just to keep pace. If you were one of them, you may not have noticed that 2003 was a watershed year in many areas: new storage architectures, the arrival (finally!) of real iSCSI products, more useful storage management tools and a host of other beneficial and welcome additions to your arsenal.
To make the lives of busy storage managers easier, the editors of Storage and SearchStorage.com once again present the 15 best products introduced and shipped in 2003.
As in the past, our criteria are:
Innovation
Performance
Ease of integration into existing environments
Ease of use and manageability
Functionality
Value
More than 100 submissions were scrutinized, and the best of that group were judged by a panel of independent experts, storage managers and editors. Products were scored on all of the previously mentioned criteria. Some of the winners were highly innovative; some set new benchmarks for value or another attribute; and some just had a great combination of several qualities. But all represent a new state of the art for storage products.
2003 Products of the Year
DISK & DISK SUBSYSTEMS
Gold: EMC Symmetrix DMX
Silver: Xiotech Magnitude 3D
Bronze: NetApp FAS200 Series
NETWORKING EQUIPMENT
Gold: Cisco MDS 9509
Silver: CNT UltraNet Edge Storage Router -- Model 3000
Bronze: SANRAD V-Switch 3000
BACKUP HARDWARE
Gold: Data Domain DD200 Recovery Appliance
Silver: IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Tape Drive 3592 Model J1A
Bronze: EMC Centera with Compliance Edition
BACKUP & DISASTER RECOVERY SOFTWARE
Gold: CommVault QiNetix 4.2
Silver: FalconStor IPStor 4.0
Bronze: CA BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5
STORAGE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Gold: AppIQ StorageAuthority Suite Version 3.0
Silver: CreekPath Storage Operations Management Suite 3.0
Bronze: OuterBay Application Data Management 3.0
If you'd like to submit a product for next year's award, please fill out this form.
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