Celebrating Technology Innovation

Not long ago, VARBusiness magazine asked its readers for nominations for its first annual Tech Innovators Awards celebration. The call went out last fall, and the editors were deluged with nominations: A total of 370 different products from more than 100 vendors were nominated.

The awards examined eight different product categories: infrastructure, Linux, peripherals, non-Web services, security, storage, Web services and wireless. Following is the complete list of INFRASTRUCTURE winners. Overall category winners can be found at VARBusiness.com. You can also search a database of companies for more information on each of the nominees.

Overall Winner:

Citrix Systems
CITRIX METAFRAME
Controls costs by reducing and increasing computing resources in parallel with business demands. Can embrace and take advantage of application, network and device heterogeneity, efficiently managing it from a single system.

Other Winners:
Accpac International

ACCPAC MESSENGER

Advanced Micro Devices
AMD ATHLON 64

Ahead Software
NERO ENTERPRISE EDITION

Alcatel
OMNIPCX ENTERPRISE

Alcatel
OMNISWITCH 7000Altris
ALTRIS RECOVERY SOLUTION 5.7

American Megatrends
MEGARAC G2 LITE

AT&T
AT&T ENHANCED VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK SERVICES (ENHANCED VPN)

Avaya
AVAYA IP OFFICE

Belkin
IU RACK-MOUNT CONSOLE WITH 8-PORT KVM SWITCH Belkin

OMNIVIEW QUAD-BUS SERIES ENTERPRISE 2X16 KVM

Belkin
REMOTE IP CONSOLE

Bluesocket
WGX-4000

Business Layers
EPROVISION MICROSOFT EDITION

Caspian Networks
APEIRO FLOW-BASED ROUTERChantry Networks
BEACONWORKS

Cisco Systems

CISCO CALLMANAGER EXPRESS

Cisco Systems
CISCO CATALYST 3750 SERIES

Cisco Systems
CISCO CATALYST 6500 NEXT GENERATION

Covad Communications
COVAD SELF INSTALL KITDigital V6
KAVEMAN 16

D-Link Systems
DSA-3100

Extreme Networks
MARINER (CODE NAME)

Hewlett-Packard
OPENVIEW OPERATIONS FOR WINDOWS

Hewlett-Packard
HP PROCURVE SWITCH 2824 Hewlett-Packard (Procurve Networking Business)
HP PROCURVE SWITCH 5300XL WITH NEW SOFTWARE UPDATES

IBM
IBM ESERVER BLADECENTER

IBM
IBM ESERVER XSERIES 445

IBM
IBM INTELLISTATION M PRO

Ipswitch
WHATSUP GOLD 8.0LANDesk Software
LANDESK MANAGEMENT SUITE 7

Microsoft
WINDOWS SMALL BUSINESS SERVER 2003

NEC America
BLUEFIRE CX2510 OPTICAL ETHERNET DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM

NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America
NEC ACCUSYNC LCD71VM

Netio
APPMANAGER LENetIQ
WEBTRENDS REPORTING CENTER

Netscaler
NETSCALER 9000 SERIES

Nortel Networks

BAYSTACK 5510-48T SWITCH

Novell
NETWARE 6.5

P-Cube
P-CUBE ENGAGEPhoenix Technologies
PHOENIX FIRSTWARE ASSISTANT

Phoenix Technologies
PHOENIX FIRSTWARE RECOVER PRO

Powerware
POWERWARE 9125 6000VA

Powerware
POWERWARE 9320

Quick Eagle Networks
4231 ACCESS ROUTERRackmaster Systems
5U FRS WITH SURVEILLANCE PRO

RadioLAN
BRIDGELINK-PRO

Raritan Computer
DOMINION KSX

Siemens ICN

OPENSCAPE V 1.0

SMC Networks
TIGERSTACK V 10/100/1000-8748MStratus Technologies
STRATUS FTSERVER 3300

Sun Microsystems
SUN MICROSYSTEMS RETAIL BANKING REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE

Sun Microsystems
SUN ONE APPLICATION SERVER 7, ENTERPRISE EDITION

Sun Microsystems
SUN ONE IDENTIY SERVER 6.1

Sun Microsystems

SUN ONE PORTAL SERVER 6.2Sun Microsystems
TRUSTED SOLARIS 8 HW 12/02 OPERATION SYSTEM (SPARC AND X86)

3Com
3COM NJ90 NETWORK JACK

3Com
3COM ROUTER 5000 SERIES

3Com
3COM SWITCH 7700

3Com
3COM VCX (VOICE CORE EXCHANGE) V7000 IP TELEPHONY SOLUTIONTimesten

THE TIMESTEN REAL-TIME EVENT PROCESSING SYSTEM VERSION 5.0

Tritton Technologies
TRITTON ADVANCED SERVER APPLIANCE PRODUCT (ASAP)

VBrick Systems
VBXCAST

Verio
VIRTUAL PRIVATE SERVER VERSION 2 (VPS V2)

VMWare
VMWARE WORKSTATIONVMWare
VMWARE CONTROL CENTER

Wyse Technology
WINTERM 941GXL