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The SQL Server Magazine Editors' Best awards honor the outstanding products and services that our editors and contributors have seen over the past year.
After narrowing down all the possibilities to the top contenders in 12 categories, we polled our fellow editors and contributors and asked them to judge each product on three criteria. First, what is the product’s strategic importance to the market? Second, does it offer superlative performance and technical innovation? And finally, does it provide an impressive price-performance ratio that makes it a compelling value? After weeks of debating, arguing, and cajoling, we came up with our list of winners, and we’re proud to unveil our Editors' Best awards for 2008.
These products can help you create, manage, deploy, optimize, recover, and otherwise squeeze the most out of your SQL Server environment. They’re easily the best products that we’ve yet seen in the SQL Server ecosystem.
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| Light Database Tools Winners |
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express • Microsoft www.microsoft.com
This limited-feature variant of Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is long on capability and value: It’s free! You’ll be amazed at how much you can accomplish with SQL Server 2005 Express—it's an excellent choice for someone whose database needs are modest. |
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MySQL 5.0 • MySQL AB www.mysql.com |
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Microsoft SQL Server Compact 3.5 • Microsoft www.microsoft.com |
| Antispam Solution for Business Winners |
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McAfee Total Protection Service • McAfee www.mcafee.com
McAfee Total Protection Service offers professional anti-spam and anti-virus protection for your corporate email needs, all without requiring you to install or manage anything locally. Did we mention that the McAfee Total Protection Service eats spam for lunch? |
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Perimeter Manager Enterprise Edition • Postini www.postini.com |
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Symantec Mail Security 8200 Series • Symantec www.symantec.com |
| Disk Imaging Software Winners |
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Symantec Ghost Solution Suite • Symantec www.symantec.com
Symantec Ghost has been updated and improved more than a dozen times, and it shows: Other disk imaging deployment products find it hard to compete with the Symantec Ghost Solution Suite in its price range, and our voters agree that Ghost can't be beat. |
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Acronis True Image Echo Workstation with Acronis Universal Restore • Acronis www.acronis.com |
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Image for Windows • TeraByte Unlimited www.terabyteunlimited.net |
| Backup and Recovery Appliances Winners |
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HP StorageWorks D2D Backup System • HP www.hp.com
HP hits the sweet spot for disk-based backup for small-to-midsized businesses with a product that makes automated backup and recovery easy and affordable and works with your existing tape-backup process. |
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SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection) Series • SonicWALL www.sonicwall.com |
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StoreVault S500 • NetApp www.storevault.com |
| Exchange Server Monitoring Tools Winners |
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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007 • Microsoft www.microsoft.com
Its preemptive, IT service–based approach to monitoring, plus management packs that incorporate Microsoft’s extensive knowledge of Exchange Server and Windows, make this product a standout in its class. |
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PROMODAG Reports for Microsoft Exchange Server • PROMODAG www.promodag.com |
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Quest MessageStats and Spotlight on Exchange • Quest Software www.quest.com |
| Uninterruptible Power Supplies Winners |
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Smart-UPS XL Series • American Power Conversion www.apc.com
APC has been producing uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) for longer than just about anyone, and IT pros have come to rely on the vendor for some of the best UPS products currently available. APC hardware is probably sitting in your data center as you read this, helping keep vital servers and appliances up and running. |
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Smart-UPS SC Series • American Power Conversion www.apc.com |
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Back-UPS RS Series • American Power Conversion www.apc.com |
| Laptop Synchronization Tools Winners |
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PCsync • Laplink Software www.laplink.com
Rock-solid reliability and an impressive number of file synchronization features help make PCsync a must for IT pros tasked with keeping a small army of desktops and mobile devices in lockstep.
An increasingly mobile workforce has multiplied the challenges that IT pros grapple with every day. Keeping files synchronized and updated between a company desktop and mobile devices such as laptops, smartphones, and PDAs is one job that must be done without fail if end users are to be able to do their work. Laplink Software’s PCsync makes synchronization between devices easy.
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Sync Logic • IPWorx.com www.ipworx.com |
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Beyond Compare • Scooter Software www.scootersoftware.com |
| KVM over IP Switches Winners |
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OmniView SMB KVM-over-IP Switch F1DP116G • Belkin International www.belkin.com
A comprehensive feature set and a competitive price help make the the OmniView SMB KVM-over-IP switch hard to beat in this category. |
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OmniView Remote IP Device with Virtual Media F1DE101H • Belkin www.belkin.com |
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APC 16-Port IP KVM • American Power Conversion www.apc.com |
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