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August 2007

Community Choice Awards

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Best Voter Comment:
Back in the days of Exchange 5.5, we struggled with bloated stores and were forced to come in on weekends and do defrags. I have to admit that I focused on the store size and didnâ??t pay attention to errors and warnings and worked another weekend to defrag my stores and caused a major corruption. After working with Redmond support I was able to get things live. Then I discovered GOexchange a few years ago before we migrated to Exchange 2003 and now I never worry. Every time we run the product it comes back with new problems that it corrected. I swear by this tool. The support department is awesome too, not outsourced, and theyâ??ll help you get things resolved.

Antispam Solutions for Business
(from the January 2007 Buyerâ??s Guide, InstantDoc ID 94326)

Winner
IronPort Systems C-Series
Email Security Appliance
http://www.ironport.com/products/email_security_appliances.html

Runners-up
Barracuda Networks Barracuda
Spam Firewall 400
http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/spam_overview.php

Postini Perimeter Manager Enterprise
http://www.postini.com

Change and Configuration Management Tools
(from the August 2006 Buyerâ??s Guide, InstantDoc ID 50620)

Winner
Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 R2
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/eval/sms2003/default.mspx

Runners-up
Altiris Client Management Suite
http://www.altiris.com/products/clientmanagementsuite.aspx

HP OpenView Configuration Management Solutions
http://h20229.www2.hp.com/solutions/ascm/index.html

Best Voter Comment:
Iâ??ve been with SMS since 1.2 days (boy, was that hard at times), and am glad that Microsoft finally decided with 2003 that they were going to not only continue the lineage but actually spend some time and resources improving the product. Itâ??s finally reached the stage where we keep wanting more from the product rather than just asking for it to work as promised, so the maturing has come with age (hey, it only took a dozen years).

Exchange Management Software
(from the October 2006 Buyerâ??s Guide, InstantDoc ID 93229)

Winner
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Management Pack for MOM 2005
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996135.aspx

Runners-up
Lucid8 GOexchange
http://www.lucid8.com

PROMODAG Reports for Microsoft
Exchange Server
http://www.promodag.com/products/reports/description.aspx

Host-Based Intrusion Prevention Systems
(from the March 2006 Buyerâ??s Guide, InstantDoc ID 49076

Winner
Symantec Critical System Protection
http://www.symantec.comenterprise/products/overview.jsp?pcid=1322&pvid=928_1

Runners-up
eEye Digital Security Blink Endpoint Vulnerability Prevention
http://www.eeye.com

McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention 6.0
http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/host_intrusion_prevention/index.html

iSCSI Storage Arrays
(from the April 2006 Buyerâ??s Guide, InstantDoc ID 49404)

Winner
HP ProLiant Storage Server with iSCSI Feature Pack
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/storage_servers/index.html

Runners-up
Adaptec Snap Server Series
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/products/iscsi_prod

Dell EMC AX100i
http://www.dell.com

KVM over IP Switches
(from the February 2006 Buyerâ??s Guide, InstantDoc ID 48825)

Winner
Black Box Network Services
ServSwitch Series
http://www.blackbox.com/catalog/category.aspx?cid=537

Runners-up
Avocent DSR Series
http://www.avocent.com/web/en.nsf/content/datacentertable

Raritan Computer Dominion Series
http://www.raritan.com

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