Important Details

  • DEADLINE EXTENDED: The deadline for submissions is October 30, 2009, 5pm PST. All entries must be received by that date/time; we will not accept any that are submitted later.

  • Users and vendors: Nominate your favorite/best products by filling out each of the fields required. All questions must be answered or else the form will be disqualified. For tips from our judges on submitting a product for consideration, click here.

  • Details about submissions: All storage products qualify for entry if they were new/significantly upgraded and first shipped after November 1, 2008 and before October 23, 2009.

    Fill out a separate form for each product. Winning products will be highlighted in both the February 2010 issue of Storage magazine and on SearchStorage.com in the middle of February. You can only submit through this form. Do not send hard copies of submissions. Do not send submissions via email. Note the character limits per field.

  • Judges: Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com editors and other storage industry experts along with storage users will judge the entries.

    Judging criteria:

    - Innovation
    - Performance
    - Ease of integration into environment
    - Ease of use and manageability
    - Functionality
    - Value


    • Click here for a more detailed description of the Products of the Year judging criteria.

    Good luck!
Storage Products of the Year 2009
* Indicates field is required
  1) Company name:*
  2) Categorize your product submission (choose one):*
Disk and Disk Subsystems (SAN, NAS, DAS, primary drives, disk controllers)
Networking Equipment (switches, HBAs, NICs, virtualization appliances, security devices)
Backup Hardware (tape libraries, tape drives for backup, media, disk backup arrays, VTL, deduplication devices)
Backup and Disaster Recovery Software and Services (backup, recovery, disaster recovery,  snapshot and replication, electronic vaulting)
Storage Management Tools (SRM and SAN management software, performance monitoring, file systems, volume management, virtualization software, security software)
  3) Product name and model/version number. (If this is a new version of an existing
product, please indicate the previous model/version number):*
  4) Product description, and why it should be considered for Product of the Year (2,000 characters):*
  5) If this is an upgrade to an existing product, list and briefly describe the five
most important new features or product enhancements; if this is a new product,
list and describe its five most important features/capabilities
(2,000 characters):*
  6) Ship date: (this is the date that the product became generally available; please include the URL linking to the ship date announcement, if available)*
  7) If this is not a standalone product, please list all other required products
(500 characters):
  8) Briefly describe the product's innovation -- What are the product's new capabilities or significant improvements that make it stand out within its product category?
(975 characters):*
  9) Briefly describe the performance -- What are the product's speeds and feeds (where applicable)? Does it improve a significant portion of the storage operation?
(975 characters):*
  10) Briefly describe the ease of integration into environment -- Briefly describe what makes this product or product upgrade stand out in these areas:

- Ease of installation (500 characters)
- Ease of integration (500 characters)
- Ease of manageability (500 characters)*

  11) Briefly describe the product's unique functionality in a competitive environment -- How does the product provide greater or more useful functionality than others in its category?
(600 characters):*
  12) Supply the least expensive price of the product and its configuration. Describe the value as compared to your competition. (600 characters):*
  13) If you have additional supporting information available, please supply the URLs
that point to the information on your website (500 characters):*
  14) Please provide the names and contact information for two current users (phone and email address) of the submitted product. (100 characters):*
  15) Submitted by:*
  16) Contact information:*
  17) Corporate e-mail address:*
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