Triangle IT Firms Dominate Datamation's Products of the Year

Research Triangle Park, N.C. — Triangle companies earned five of the 10 spots in the 2008 Datamation Product of the Year Awards. Readers nominated a total of 43 products for consideration and then voted for their favorites in various IT categories.

IBM picked up three. Red Hat landed one. So did DataFlux, a SAS company.

2008 category winners include:

• Anti-Spam Software: Ad-Aware 2007 Pro (developed by Lavasoft)
• Business/IT Alignment:  IBM's Innov8
• Enterprise Linux:  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
• Enterprise Security - Verdasys Digital Guardian 5
• Enterprise Server:  IBM p 570 Server
• Handheld Device:  Apple iPhone
• Network and Systems Management:  Dataflux Accelerator
• Office Productivity Software:  IBM Lotus Symphony
• Virtualization Software: VMware Server 2
• Wireless Software:  Cognos 8 Go! Mobile

The complete list, along with product descriptions, is available on Datamation's Web site.