For this special issue of Windows & .NET Magazine, we asked you, our readers, to tell us about your product preferences. By voting for your favorites in our Readers' Choice awards survey, you have provided valuable feedback from the front lines.
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Dell, VERITAS Software, HP
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Building on the high availability and local application management that clustering provides, VERITAS Software's VERITAS Global Cluster Manager extends the concepts of local clustering to provide peerless global application-fail-over capabilities.
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BMC Software, Executive Software, Winternals, WinZip, ScriptLogic
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Emergent OnLine, Avatier, BMC Software, Invotion
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Symantec, RSA, Check Point Software, NetIQ
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Microsoft, HP, Symantec, ScriptLogic, WQuinn, Sunbelt Software, Aelita Software, BMC Software
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Sunbelt Software, Microsoft
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In this hotly contested category, our readers gave Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) the edge over HP OpenView for Active Directory (AD) for Best Active Directory Management Tool.
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For the second year in a row, RSA SecureID captured the award for Best Third-Party authentication Device, easily defeating the category's other contenders with more than 40 percent of the votes.
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For the second consecutive year, our readers handed the Best Undelete Utility award to Executive Software for Undelete 3.0.
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In a close race, Emergent OnLine edged out ACCPAC International's ACCPAC Online to win the Readers' Choice award for Best Application Service Provider.
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For the second year in a row, Avatier's Password Reset Station was our readers' choice for Best Web-Based Security Service.
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BMC Software's SiteAngel led the competition this year and beat last year's winner in the Best Web Site Analysis Service category.
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The hands-down favorite among our readers in the Best Web Site Hosting Service category is Invotion.
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Readers overwhelmingly chose Symantec's Norton Antivirus as Best Antivirus/Clent Side solution.
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In addition to winning the Readers' Choice award for Best Antivirus/Client Side product, Symantec also won the award for Best Antivirus/Server side product with its Symantec AntiVirus solution.
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For the Readers' Choice award for Best Antivirus/Mail Server, readers gave the nod to Symantec Antivirus for SMTP Gateways, which garnered about 40 percent of the votes.
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HP picked up another award with its HP StorageWorks Enterprise Backup Solution (EBS) winning Best Enterprise Backup/Recover/Archive Hardware.
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Aside from winning in the Best Enterprise Backup/Recover/Archive Software category, VERITAS Software's VERITAS Backup Exec swept away the competition to take the prize for Best Local Backup/Recover/Archive Software.
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Unstoppable in the disaster-recovery arena, VERITAS Software remained the champion in the Best Replication/Data Availability Solution category as readers voted VERITAS Volume Replicator the winner for a second year.
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Another returning winner is American Power Conversions's (APC's) APC Symmetra RackMount Power Array, which for the second year won Best Uninterruptible Power System with 81 percent of the vote--even more than last year.
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VERITAS Software's VERITAS Cluster Server Traffic Director provides intelligent traffic management of your end users' IP requests to ensure high performance.
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VERITAS Software's VERITAS Global Cluster Manager monitors and controls multiple, geographically distributed VERITAS Cluster Server configurations.
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HP Openview Internet Services can help ISPs and internal IT departments provide clear service-level guarantees on the availability and response time of the services the provide.
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Sunbelt Software iHateSpam Server Edition
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VERITAS Software VERITAS Global Cluster Manager
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Intense School, Transcender, Global Knowledge
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Posting a second straight landslide victory, Winternals Software's ERD Commander 2002 proudly claims the top spot in the Best Emergency Recovery console utility category.
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Echoing last year's convincing win, ScriptLogic 4.14 easily grabbed the top spot in the Best Scripting Tool category.
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WinZip Computing's WinZip outdistanced its competitors to take the Best File-Compression Tool award.
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NORTHERN Parklife's RasTracker, voted Best RAS and RRAS Solution, lets you accurately monitor and effectively manage RAS and RRAS .
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ACCPAC International's ACCPAC Messenger system is a client/server-based communications solution that integrates voice messaging and faxing into your computer network.
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For the second year in a row, GFI Software's GFI FAXmaker for Exchange is our readers' pick for Best Fax Server.
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Cisco Systems' comprehensive set of IP communications solutions span IP telephony, unified communications, IP video/audio conferencing, IP video broadcasting, and contact-center products.
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Readers recognized Remedy with the first of two Readers' Choice awards by designating Remedy Customer Support as Best Customer Relationship Management Software.
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Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server defeated 11 contenders to win Best Document Management/Imaging Software.
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Readers complimented ACCPAC International's ACCPAC Advantage Series when they voted it Best Enterprise Resource Planning Software.
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For the second time, Executive Software's Diskeeper 7.0 posts a decisive victory in the Best Defragmentation Utility category.
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Intense School provides accelerated boot camps for Microsoft, security, Cisco Systems, Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA), and Linux certifications.
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Transcender's TranscenderCert software provides cetification exam simulations that feature comprehensive, realistic questions, including case-study questions.
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For organizations that have many employees with similar training needs, Intense School offers corporate training anywhere in the world.
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Global Knowledge provides hands-on training with Virtual Classroom e-Learning courses, which are Web-based training courses that feature live, instructor-led training.
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Surging to the top of our Best Automation/Scheduling Tool category is BMC Software's CONTROL-M for Microsoft Windows.
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Winternals Software's NTFSDOS Professional 5.0 is another Best Utilitites tool that clinched its spot with a landslide win, and it's appearing here for the second straight year.
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For the Best 802.11 Access Point (AP), our readers chose Cisco Aironet Series Access Points.
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Readers chose Cisco Systems' Cisco Aironet Wireless LAN Client Adapters as the Best 802.11 NIC.
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Cisco Systems blew away the competition in the voting for Best Router, with readers choosing Cisco products by a wide margin.
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In addition to garnering the most votes for the best 802.11 Access Point, Best 802.11 NIC, and Best Router, Cisco Systems won our readers' votes for Best Switch.
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Readers saluted Network Associates' Sniffer Distributed by designating the solution Best Hardware Network Analyzer with more than 300 votes, citing its dependability, functionality, and value.