BakBone Wins Datamation Product of the Year Award for VMware Capabilities in NetVault: Backup.Datamation Readers Vote BakBone NetVault: Backup as Leading Solution in Virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. Software Category SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- BakBone Software  This article about a company does not make it clear whether the subject meets the Wikipedia criteria for . ([R]) (Pink Sheets:BKBO), the leading
provider of heterogeneous integrated data protection, adds another
industry honor to its VMware data protection solution with the 2009
Datamation Product of the Year Award in the virtualization software
category. BakBone's NetVault: Backup VMware Plugin won top honors
over VMware ESX Server VMware ESX Server is an enterprise-level virtualization product offered by VMware, Inc., a division of EMC Corporation. ESX Server is a component of VMware's larger offering, Virtual Infrastructure, which adds management and reliability services to the core server product. , Citrix XEN Open source virtualization software that is used to partition workstations and servers into separate virtual machines, each containing its own copy of an OS. Pronounced "zen," and developed at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., Xen is noted for its fast response and low overhead. Server 5, FastScale Composer Suite
2.0 and Pano Logic Virtual Desktop Solution. Results can be found on the
Datamation Web site.
According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Datamation, not only did 2009 have the heaviest voting in recent years, BakBone's win marked an upset in the virtualization software category. The publication reports, "The competition is just heating up. Virtualization is one of the few technologies that should keep growing in a recession; it promises a leaner datacenter that's optimized for tighter budgets." Leading the market with tightly integrated VMware support and script-free VCB VCB Vietcombank (Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam) VCB VMware Consolidated Backup VCB Visitor and Convention Bureau VCB Vacuum Circuit Breaker VCB Value Control Box VCB Virginia Commerce Bank backups, BakBone is one of the few backup vendors that has developed VMware data protection capabilities to fully comply with VMware's Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. BakBone recently announced formal certification by VMware and plans to expand its virtualization capabilities to additional platforms, including Hyper-V and XEN Server. In addition to support for multiple hypervisors, BakBone's virtualization strategy, announced last week, also includes virtual environment support for applications, remote office backup and bare metal 1. bare metal - New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an HLL, or even assembler. Commonly used in the phrase "programming on the bare metal", which refers to the arduous work of bit bashing needed to create these basic tools recovery. Based on the technical innovation and development efforts of its VMware backup and recovery solution, BakBone was also recently awarded the VARBusiness Tech Innovator Company of the Year in the storage category. "We are honored that the readers of Datamation voted NetVault: Backup Product of the Year in the virtualization software category. This win reinforces our belief in supporting the needs of our customers," said Jim Johnson, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , BakBone. "Virtualization is a major initiative at BakBone and this award also further validates NetVault: Backup's clear market differentiators, including simple yet powerful heterogeneous support, unique flexibility that reduces total cost of ownership and maintenance costs and an intuitive interface that is easy-to-use." Founded in 1957, Datamation has hosted its annual Product of the Year Award contest for decades. All the nominations came from Datamation readers, a diverse group of IT professionals with firsthand knowledge of these products, most of whom use these products everyday on the job. About BakBone Software, Inc. BakBone is committed to making data protection a simple, straightforward process while delivering its Integrated Data Protection (IDP) strategy through an award-winning product suite. This suite provides unprecedented capabilities not only to protect critical data - but more importantly, to ensure the availability of that data as well. BakBone's products offer a single point of control for managing resources across all platforms, providing improved operational efficiency, reduced system downtime, improved availability and enhanced security to support the business growth of enterprise environments. Thousands of users worldwide leverage BakBone's IDP approach to simplify the management of multi-platform environments with a portfolio of backup, disaster recovery, replication and storage reporting solutions for Linux, Windows, Unix and Mac OS environments. These scalable data protection solutions address the demands of Global 5000 organizations and are distributed through a worldwide network of select OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and partners, strategic partners, resellers and solution providers. BakBone is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. For more information about BakBone, visit www.bakbone.com or email info@bakbone.com. 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