Want An Award-Winning Solution?

If you're planning to purchase a storage solution, you'd be wise to consider award-winning products. In the January 2004 issue of Storage magazine, the editors of Storage and SearchStorage.com announced what they determined were "the 15 best products introduced and shipped in 2003." Here are the categories and the 15 best:

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Disk And Disk Subsystems

Gold: EMC Symmetrix DMX

Silver: XIOtech Magnitude 3D

Bronze: Network Appliance 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

Bronze: EMC Centera Compliance Edition

Backup And Disaster Recovery Software And Services

Gold: CommVault QiNetix 4.2

Silver: FalconStor IPStor Enterprise Edition 4.0

Bronze: CA BrightStor Enterprise Backup 10.5

Storage Management Software

Gold: AppIQ Storage Authority Suite Version 3.0

Silver: CreekPath Storage Operations Management Suite 3.0

Bronze: OuterBay Application Data Management 3.0