AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - Oct 11, 2011) - Tech Awards Circle (www.techawardscircle.com), a uniquely unbiased, independent awards program, today announced the winners of its third competition. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets. Tech Awards Circle winners, selected by an independent circle of journalists, should be considered the 'best of the best' in the computer and consumer technology industries today.
Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category. Winners are listed below, in order -- from Gold, Silver to Bronze.
Gold Winners:
- Nimbus Data Systems Nimbus S-Class (Enterprise Hardware)
- NetEx HyperIP (Enterprise Software)
- ScaleXtreme ScaleXtreme Xpress (Enterprise Software)
- Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager (VIM) (Enterprise Service)
- Drobo iSCSI SAN for Business model B1200i (SMB Hardware)
- Gridstore Scale-Out NAS v. 2.0 (SMB Software)
- Schedulicity Deal Manager (SMB Service)
- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies G-CONNECT (SOHO Hardware)
- Quickoffice Pro HD for iPad (SOHO Software)
- Secunia Personal Software Inspector (PSI) (SOHO Services)
Silver Winners:
- SonicWALL SuperMassive E10000 Appliance Series (Enterprise Hardware)
- Bocada Prism (Enterprise Software)
- FireHost Secure Cloud Hosting (Enterprise Service)
- Metalogix Migration Manager for SharePoint (Midrange Software)
- NovaStor NovaBACKUP Remote Workforce (Midrange Software)
- Riverbed Whitewater Cloud Storage Gateway (SMB Hardware)
- Dell KACE M300 Asset Management Appliance (SMB Software)
- Axcient, Inc. Fortify-X (SMB Service)
- Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 Mobile Scanner (SOHO Hardware)
- iolo technologies System Mechanic 10.5 (SOHO Software)
Bronze Winners:
- Fujitsu ScanSnap N1800 Network Scanner (Enterprise Hardware)
- MapR Technologies MapR M5 Edition (Enterprise Software)
- VirtuOz Intelligent Virtual Agents (Enterprise Service)
- QuorumLabs onQ Site Recovery Appliance (Midrange Software)
- Wasp Barcode Technologies Inventory Control v6 (SMB Hardware)
- NComputing L300 (SMB Software)
- TP-Link Wireless Pan/Tilt Surveillance Camera TL-SC417G (SOHO Hardware)
- TappIn Inc. TappIn (SOHO Software)
Executive of the Year
Technologist of the Year
- Lars Oleson, Executive Director of Engineering, iolo technologies (Gold)
- Michael Kazar, Chief Technology Officer, Avere Systems (Silver)
"Our third year of competition attracted entries from extremely strong companies, making these winning products and people even more outstanding in their fields," said Kevin Anderson, awards program coordinator. "We congratulate the makers of these products, and the talented executives and engineering innovators behind them."
About Tech Awards Circle
Tech Awards Circle was established to truly honor the 'best of the best' in technology. Tech Awards Circle is not affiliated with an analyst firm or a media company, both of which are directly supported by tech vendors through consulting relationships or advertising sales, so it is uniquely unbiased and immune to conflicts of interest. Entries are judged by an independent circle of journalists, including product reviewers, each with at least a decade of experience covering technology from consumer electronics to enterprise-class computing. To prevent these judges from being unduly influenced by vendors, they have agreed to remain anonymous. For more information or to be added to the mailing list please visit www.techawardscircle.com.