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Data Protection 2016 winner

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Designer: Linda Koury

The Data Protection category recognizes software products or cloud services -- such as disaster recovery as a service -- that are designed toback up, restore, replicate data and/or achieve fault tolerance in a virtual server or cloud infrastructure.

Winner: StorageCraft Technology Corp.; StorageCraft ShadowProtect SPX

Editor's note: The results of this category have been updated to comply with our contest rules and submission guidelines.

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