CMP Media's VARBusiness Magazine Names Finalists in Tech Innovator Awards Competition

The program represents all major categories of technology products. VARBusiness magazine, which covers the business of technology integration, will honor the winners and finalists at an awards event to be held on Oct. 20, at the Hilton in San Francisco, in conjunction with the XChange Tech Innovators Conference. In addition, those companies will be recognized in the VARBusiness Dec. 19 "State of Technology" issue, which includes profiles, features and in-depth explanations of the technologies and products. Industry interest in the competition, introduced in 2003, continues to grow.

The 2005 program drew more than 500 applications, compared with 466 in 2004. In addition, the number of categories was increased to 11 from nine. "The Tech Innovator Awards define new growth opportunities for our solution-provider readers," says VARBusiness Editor Lawrence M. Walsh. "The advances of the selected vendors have been absolutely outstanding." The awards program is for products introduced, upgraded or completely revised during 2005, in 11 categories. Finalists are:

Wireless/Mobility

AirVantage: WiMax-in-a-Box

Goodlink: Hosted Edition

SonicWall: TZ 150 Wireless Components

AMD: Athlon 64x2 dual-core processor

iVivity: iDiSX 2000

StarTech: Cable Zen Client/Network Security

Centennial: DeviceWall

Juniper Networks: NetScreen-5GT Wireless

SonicWall: Pro 1260 Enhanced Storage

FalconStor: IPStor Enterprise Edition

Hewlett-Packard: StorageWorks Modular Smart Array 50

Iomega: REV drive Open Source and Linux

IBM: eServer OpenPower Consolidation Express solution

Pingtel: SIPxchange

Silicon Graphics: Prism deskside system SMB Software

Avanton: ReadyARM

LiveVault: InSync

Microsoft: Navision 4.0 Enterprise Software

BEA: AquaLogic

Ultimus: Adaptive Discovery

Veritas: Enterprise Vault 6.0 Printing and Imaging, Peripherals

NEC: WT610 projector

Philips: 20-in. WSXGA LCD Widescreen Monitor (model 200W6)

Xerox: WorkCentre C2424 Color MFS Server-based Computing

Hewlett-Packard: ProLiant DL140 G2 Server

IBM: eServer P5 570

IBM: eServer Rear Door Heat Exchanger Client Devices

ClearCube Solution

Motion Computing: M20 Notebook Convertible

Toshiba: Libretto U100-S213 Voice & Data Networking

3Com: Switch 800

Hewlett-Packard: StorageWorks Enterprise File Services WAN Accelerator

MRV Communications: OptiSwitch 9000 In addition to recognizing top products within each category, VARBusiness will present the VARBusiness Innovator of the Year Award.

The VARBusiness Tech Innovators event is an integral component of CMP Media's XChange Tech Innovators Conference, being held Oct. 19-21, at The Fairmont in San Francisco. XChange Conferences are the premier face-to-face channel events where numerous opportunities are provided for information-technology vendors, distributors and solution providers to meet and define their partnerships.

APC, Cisco Lexmark, and Toshiba are the 2005 VARBusiness Tech Innovator Awards program sponsors. Methodology

Nominated products were judged in two stages: a first-round examination by VARBusiness' team of technology editors, followed by a final selection by a panel of judges assembled from the solution-provider community. These judges ran the gamut in terms of knowledge and skill sets, from security technologies to network infrastructure to application development. Judges scored products on number of criteria: how new and improved the technology is, its price/performance ratio and finally, its money-making potential for solution providers. About VARBusiness Magazine

For the past 18 years, VARBusiness' strategic resources have been the gateway to the Solution Provider community. VARBusiness provides strategic insight for technology integrators through industry-defining research, in-depth editorial, channel events and innovative Web services, enabling these IT professionals to make educated decisions for their businesses, partnerships and customers. VARBusiness has been the recipient of numerous industry awards for both editorial content and design. Additional information about VARBusiness products, events and services, is available at its Web site, http://www.varbusiness.com. About CMP Media

CMP Media (http://www.cmp.com) is the leading integrated media solutions company providing "broad and deep" access to the entire technology spectrum -- the builders, sellers and buyers of technology worldwide. The company's comprehensive database of technology decision makers enables marketers to reach targeted audiences throughout the purchase process with publications, web offerings, face-to-face events, consulting and other marketing services that deliver actionable results. Contact: Gordon Plutsky

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