VMworld Winners

Having done a lot with VMware, I was glad to find this Tech Target article from last Sept listing the companies that won Best of VMworld Awards. Some of the winners and finalists the areas of capacity planning, consolidation, performance monitoring / optimiziation, migration (physical-to-virtual, virtual-to-virtual, virtual-to-physical software), data protection (backup, recovery and security) include:

• Onaro’s VM Insight
• Marathon Technology’s everRun FT for Xenprise
• InovaWave’s VirtualOctane for ESX Server
• IBM’s IBM System x 3950 M2 with VMware ESX Server 3i (an IBM data-class machine with four quad-core processors in one frame, connectable via InfiniBand, running an embedded hypervisor)
• CiRBA’s Data Center Intelligence 4.4
• 3Leaf Systems’ V-8000 Virtual I/O Server
• Akorri’s BalancePoint 1.7
• B-hive Networks’ Conductor, Netuitive’s SI for VMware
• PlateSpin’s PowerConvert, Leostream’s P>V 4.0
• Symantec NetBackup
• Blue Lane’s VirtualShield
• LeftHand’s Virtual SAN Appliance
• Veeam Software’s Veeam Reporter 2.0
• ThinPrint GmbH’s .print Virtual Desktop Engine
• ClearCube’s Sentral 5.6
• VMware’s VMware Workstation and VMware ACE 2

I will definitely have to check out a few of these vendors in 2008, particularly Akorri.