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Products of the Year 2008:

The Data Protection category winners for SearchServerVirtualization's 2008 Products of the Year have addressed some of the ills and tradeoffs of data backup for virtual machines. Winning products won for their variety of backup and recovery options for virtual machines, compatibility with VMware and high-availability and fault-tolerance options.

Data protection

The top winners in this category are:

Gold Award:

PHD Technologies' esXpress, v3.1

EsXpress trumps alternatives because of its variety of backup methods and easy integration with VMware, judges said.

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Silver Award:

Symantec's Veritas NetBackup 6.53

Symantec Corp. is a longtime leading backup and recovery provider for physical environments, so it's no surprise that its backup and recovery offering for virtual environments, Veritas NetBackup 6.53, makes a strong showing.

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Bronze Award:

Marathon Technologies' everRun VM

According to a judge for our data protection category, while everRun is strictly a fault-tolerance product, it does its job well.

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