Virtualization Strategies for the CIOHardware for virtualization
The top winners in this category are:
- Gold Award:
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With its Virtual Connect technology, Hewlett-Packard Co. made serious inroads toward alleviating the problem of managing network and storage connections in a virtual architecture and has garnered our judges' vote for Gold.
- Silver Award:
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"Pano Logic has taken an innovative next step beyond thin-client computing and married it with the flexibility of virtual desktops, with their zero-client approach," said one of ourjudges, which is why Pano Logic takes home this year's Silver award.
- Bronze Award:
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Tie: Xeon and Opteron quad-core processors
Whether you're an Intel shop or are partial to AMD chips, both x86 processor vendors introduced significant new chips furthering the virtualization cause, earning each a Bronze award.