Finalists in eWEEK Excellence Awards VIII Announced!
June 2, 2008 by Debra Donston
eWEEK editors culled through hundreds of entries to select the IT products and services that are best-suited to enterprises' changing–and increasingly demanding–requirements.
The job of selecting and buying technology has never been easy, but it's only getting harder as the development pace quickens, the deployment and platform options grow, and the stakes get higher.
The goal of the eWeek Excellence Awards program, now in its eighth year, is to make that job a little bit easier by pointing IT buyers to the most promising new enterprise products and technologies.
The eighth annual eWeek Excellence Awards program was open to any enterprise-focused product announced in 2007 and made available before March 31, 2008. Vendors could enter as many products and services as they wished, and were charged $50 per entry. (Proceeds from the entry fees are being donated to Boys & Girls Clubs of America clubhouses.)
eWEEK editors judged the entries on:
Innovation
Practical integration of emerging technologies
Suitability to task
Cost effectiveness
Potential for helping companies create business efficiencies
Manageability
Potential for helping companies develop competitive advantage
Securability
When the Excellence Awards program started eight years ago, internal servers–l;often with one application per server–predominated, Web services were mostly uncharted territory and open platforms were pretty much unheard of in the enterprise.
Of course, eight years is several generations in IT time, and the products that were entered in this year's program show how much things have changed: Many of the products enable and/or support server virtualization, and many are delivered via the Web and in the open-source model.
The finalists and winners in the eighth annual eWeek Excellence Awards program are leading in these new directions, as well as meeting the new management and security challenges cropping up along the way.
In categories that cover all aspects of enterprise computing, here are the finalists in the 8th annual eWEEK Excellence Awards program. The winners will be announced on June 9.
Security
Core Security Technologies' Core Impact 7.5 Lumension Security's Sanctuary 4.2 Positive Networks' PhoneFactor
Infrastructure Hardware
Juniper Networks' J2350 Services Router Neterion's Xframe E Sun Microsystems' Sun SPARC Enterprise 5120
Infrastructure Software
Cassatt's Cassatt Active Response Standard Edition Marathon Technologies' EverRun VM Symphoniq's TrueView Express
Mobile & Wireless
Adobe's Adobe Device Central CS3 Agito Networks' RoamAnywhere Mobility Router Zenprise's Zenprise for BlackBerry
Networking
Fonality's PBXtra with HUD Netuitive's Netuitive Service Analyzer Vyatta's Vyatta Community Edition 3.0
Business Applications
IBM's IBM Lotus Connections Salesforce.com's Salesforce '08 Serena Software's Mashup Composer
Storage Software
Cleversafe's Dispersed Storage Platform CommVault's Simpana Software Suite Symantec's Enterprise Vault
Storage Hardware
Fujitsu Computer Systems' Eternus2000 SAN Gear6's CACHEfx Scalable Caching Appliance/Reflex OS Version 1.5 Hifn's Hifn Swarm 3000 Series
Desktops & Notebooks
Fujitsu's LifeBook U180 Mini-notebook Hewlett-Packard's HP Compaq dc7800 Business Desktop PC Lenovo's ThinkPad T61
Productivity Applications
EmLogis' Generator TOA Technologies' ETAdirect Wrike's Wrike
Collaboration
Azaleos' OneStop Services for Microsoft Exchange Brightidea.com's WebStorm 5.0 LifeSize Communications' LifeSize Express
Application Development
BT's Web21C SDK Salesforce.com's Force.com Potix's ZK AJAX Web Framework
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