Tech Awards Circle Winners Represent Best of Tech 2010

AUSTIN, Texas, July 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech Awards Circle (www.techawardscircle.com), a uniquely unbiased, independent awards program, today announced the winners of its second competition. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets. Tech Awards Circle winners, selected by an independent circle of journalists, should be considered the 'best of the best' in the computer and consumer technology industries today.

Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category. Gold product award winners in each category will automatically be entered into an annual Product of the Year competition for additional recognition. Winners are listed below, in order from Gold, Silver, to Bronze.

Gold Winners are:

• Fujitsu ScanSnap S1300 - Consumer/SOHO Hardware
• YouSendIt - Consumer/SOHO Software
• CTERA CloudPlug and CTERA C200 - SMB Hardware and SMB Software
• Nimbus Data S-Class - Midrange Hardware
• Digitiliti DigiLIBE - Midrange Software
• Avere Systems FXT Series - Enterprise Hardware
• Racemi DynaCenter-OEM 3.2 - Enterprise Software
• Nasuni Filer - Midrange Services
• Carbonite - SOHO Services

Silver Winners:

• Ooma, Inc. Ooma Telo - Consumer/SOHO Hardware
• iolo technologies, LLC System Mechanic 9.5 - Consumer/SOHO Software
• Mitel Virtual Mitel Communications Director - SMB Software
• RELDATA Unified Storage Engine (USE) Platform - Midrange Hardware
• NetEx HyperIP - Midrange Software
• FireEye Malware Protection System - Enterprise Hardware
• Bocada Prism - Enterprise Software

Bronze Winners

• Dyadem Stature - SMB Software
• SEPATON S2100®-MS2 with DeltaStor® deduplication software - Midrange Hardware
• C2C Systems ArchiveOne - Midrange Software
• Aptare StorageConsole 7.2 – Enterprise Software

Gold: Executives of the Year

• Dyadem – Kevin North, President and CEO
• eSilo - Andrew Chernow, Chief Technologist
• Avere Systems - Rebecca Thompson, Vice President of Marketing

"The competition was extremely strong, so we congratulate these winners for their outstanding products, talented executive leadership and engineering innovators," said Kevin Anderson, awards program coordinator. "For the second year, we were pleased to get entries of such a high quality."

About Tech Awards Circle

Tech Awards Circle was established this year to truly honor the 'best of the best' in technology. Tech Awards Circle is not affiliated with an analyst firm or a media company, both of which are directly supported by tech vendors through consulting relationships or advertising sales, so it is uniquely unbiased and immune to conflicts of interest. Entries are judged by an independent circle of journalists, including product reviewers, each with at least a decade of experience covering technology from consumer electronics to enterprise-class computing. To prevent these judges from being unduly influenced by vendors, they have agreed to remain anonymous. For more information or to be added to the mailing list please visit www.techawardscircle.com.

SOURCE Tech Awards Circle