Best Voter Comment:
Back in the days of Exchange 5.5, we
struggled with bloated stores and were
forced to come in on weekends and do
defrags. I have to admit that I focused on
the store size and didnâ??t pay attention to
errors and warnings and worked another
weekend to defrag my stores and caused
a major corruption. After working with
Redmond support I was able to get things
live. Then I discovered GOexchange a few
years ago before we migrated to Exchange
2003 and now I never worry. Every time
we run the product it comes back with
new problems that it corrected. I swear by
this tool. The support department is awesome
too, not outsourced, and theyâ??ll help
you get things resolved.
Antispam Solutions
for Business
(from the January 2007 Buyerâ??s Guide,
InstantDoc ID 94326)
Winner
IronPort Systems C-Series
Email Security Appliance
http://www.ironport.com/products/email_security_appliances.html
Runners-up
Barracuda Networks Barracuda
Spam Firewall 400
http://www.barracudanetworks.com/ns/products/spam_overview.php
Postini Perimeter Manager
Enterprise
http://www.postini.com
Change and
Configuration
Management Tools
(from the August 2006 Buyerâ??s Guide,
InstantDoc ID 50620)
Winner
Microsoft Systems
Management Server
2003 R2
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/eval/sms2003/default.mspx
Runners-up
Altiris Client
Management Suite
http://www.altiris.com/products/clientmanagementsuite.aspx
HP OpenView Configuration
Management Solutions
http://h20229.www2.hp.com/solutions/ascm/index.html
Best Voter Comment:
Iâ??ve been with SMS since 1.2 days (boy,
was that hard at times), and am glad that
Microsoft finally decided with 2003 that
they were going to not only continue the
lineage but actually spend some time and
resources improving the product. Itâ??s finally
reached the stage where we keep wanting
more from the product rather than just
asking for it to work as promised, so the
maturing has come with age (hey, it only
took a dozen years).
Exchange Management
Software
(from the October 2006 Buyerâ??s Guide,
InstantDoc ID 93229)
Winner
Microsoft Exchange Server
2003 Management Pack for
MOM 2005
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996135.aspx
Runners-up
Lucid8 GOexchange
http://www.lucid8.com
PROMODAG Reports for Microsoft
Exchange Server
http://www.promodag.com/products/reports/description.aspx
Host-Based Intrusion
Prevention Systems
(from the March 2006 Buyerâ??s Guide,
InstantDoc ID 49076
Winner
Symantec Critical
System Protection
http://www.symantec.comenterprise/products/overview.jsp?pcid=1322&pvid=928_1
Runners-up
eEye Digital Security Blink
Endpoint Vulnerability
Prevention
http://www.eeye.com
McAfee Host Intrusion
Prevention 6.0
http://www.mcafee.com/us/enterprise/products/host_intrusion_prevention/index.html
iSCSI Storage Arrays
(from the April 2006 Buyerâ??s Guide,
InstantDoc ID 49404)
Winner
HP ProLiant Storage Server
with iSCSI Feature Pack
http://h18006.www1.hp.com/storage/disk_storage/storage_servers/index.html
Runners-up
Adaptec Snap Server Series
http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/products/iscsi_prod
Dell EMC AX100i
http://www.dell.com
KVM over IP Switches
(from the February 2006 Buyerâ??s Guide,
InstantDoc ID 48825)
Winner
Black Box Network Services
ServSwitch Series
http://www.blackbox.com/catalog/category.aspx?cid=537
Runners-up
Avocent DSR Series
http://www.avocent.com/web/en.nsf/content/datacentertable
Raritan Computer
Dominion Series
http://www.raritan.com
Light Database Tools
(from the March 2007 Buyer’s Guide,
InstantDoc ID 95091)
Winner
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Express Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/express/default.mspx
Runners-up
Microsoft SQL Server 2005
Compact Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/editions/compact/ssceoverview.mspx
MySQL AB MYSQL 5.0
http://www.mysql.com
Network
Monitoring Tools
(from the December 2006 Buyer’s Guide,
InstantDoc ID 93841)
Winner
NETIKUS.NET EventSentry
http://www.eventsentry.com
Runners-up
Quest Spotlight on Active
Directory
http://www.quest.com/spotlight-on-activedirectory
TNT Software ELM
Enterprise Manager
http://www.tntsoftware.com/products/elmenterprisemanager.aspx
SharePoint Antivirus
Solutions
(from the July 2006 Buyer’s Guide,
InstantDoc ID 50312)
Winner
Symantec AntiVirus 4.3 for
Microsoft SharePoint
http://www.symantec.com/en/uk/enterprise/products/overview.jsp?pcid=1008&pvid=829_1
Runners-up
Microsoft Antigen for
SharePoint
http://www.microsoft.com/antigen/default.mspx
Trend Micro PortalProtect for
SharePoint 1.6
http://us.trendmicro.com/us/products/enterprise/portalprotect/index.html
Two-Factor
Authentication Tokens
(from the June 2006 Buyer’s Guide, InstantDoc ID 49938)
Winner
RSA USB
Authenticator 6100
http://www.rsa.com
Runners-up
CRYPTOCard UB-1
USB Token
http://www.cryptocard.com/products/crypto%2Dtokens/ub%2D1usbtoken
Entrust USB Tokens
http://www.entrust.com/tokens/index.htm
Best Voter Comment:
I’ve been involved in a few projects incorporating
the RSA two-factor authentication
products and have always found them
a powerful addition to the overall solution.
This is especially true in solutions with
remote VPN access or email access with
Microsoft ISA Server, which includes the
RSA agent in the shipped software, allowing
for very easy integration. Being the
industry leader in two-factor authentication
definitely helps in integration projects.
Ultra-Portable Laptops
(from the January 2006 Buyer’s Guide,
InstantDoc ID 48496)
Winner
IBM/Lenovo
ThinkPad X Series
http://www.lenovo.com
Runners-up
Dell Latitude XI
http://www.dell.com
Sony VAIO T Series
Notebook
http://b2b.sony.com/solutions/subcategory/notebooks/t-series
Best Voter Comment:
Now that I’ve had a taste of what IBM/Lenovo delivers, I won’t even think about
other vendors’ products without first comparing
them to IBM/Lenovo products. I
used to be an HP fan, but I’ve found that
HP’s support has gone down the drain, and
the company doesn’t build the same kind
of quality into its products that it has in the
past. I had to send in one product six times
before HP got it right. I hope others have
had better luck.
Essential UPS
(from the May 2006 Buyer’s Guide,
InstantDoc ID 49708)
Winner
APC Smart-UPS Series
http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=165
Runners-up
Belkin F6C100, F6C1250, and
F6C1500
http://www.belkin.com
Tripp Lite SmartPro Series
http://www.tripplite.com/products/ups/ups_smartpro.cfm
Best Voter Comment:
I’ve used the APC units for over 10 years
and always found them very reliable. Other
than the batteries eventually failing like all
batteries do after 4 to 5 years of continuous
use (boy, do they get heavy after lugging
them all over the place to replace), my
only complaint would be the management
software. We use the business edition but
find that some of the history graphs for
the units are only retained for 24 hours,
which isn’t much good when you’re trying
to diagnose an intermittent problem.
