Big Bytes Finalists Named

August 31st, 2006 |
Awards

Byte and Switch today announced that nearly three dozen organizations have been selected as finalists for the Big Bytes, an industry awards program that recognizes storage innovation and creativity.

The finalists were selected from a field of nearly 200 nominated products, services, and customer deployments. Three finalists were selected in each of the 12 Big Bytes categories. Here they are, in alphabetical order:

Backup and Archiving:

Asigra Televaulting 6.0
Avamar Axion 3.5
CommVault QiNetix 6.1�

NAS:

Adaptec Snap Server 550
Bell Microproducts Hammer Z-Series
BlueArc Titan 2000

SAN:

Brocade Silkworm 4900
Cisco MDS 9513
EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 Series

Storage Services:

Aptare Storage Console
Arsenal Digital Via Remote Business Edition
Incentra Tapeless Disaster Recovery

Storage Network Security:

EMC Documentum Information Rights Management Services
NeoScale CryptoStor KeyVault
Spectra Logic BlueScale Encryption

Storage Management Software:

Brocade Tapestry File Lifecycle Manager
Kazeon Information Server IS1200
Sun StorageTek Business Analytics software

WAN Optimization:

Blue Coat SG with Mach5
F5 WANjet
Riverbed RIOS 3.0

Large Enterprise User Excellence:

DS Waters of America LP (an EMC customer)
Kindred Healthcare (Cisco)
Level 3 Communications (Avamar)

Small/Medium Enterprise User Excellence:

Argix Direct Inc. (EMC)
Saturday Night Live (QLogic)
Troutman Sanders (Data Domain)

Small/Medium Business User Excellence:

Fitchburg State College (LeftHand Networks)
Intellidyn (Hitachi Data Systems)
Leapfrog (Pillar Data Systems)

Best Private Company:

Data Domain
EqualLogic
NeoScale

Best Public Company:

AXS-One
QLogic
Symantec

Winners of the Big Bytes awards will be announced Sept. 12 during the Storage Plus conference and exhibition.

Distinct Data. Distinct Results.

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