Tech Awards Circle Winners Represent Best of Tech 2009

AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Tech Awards Circle
(www.techawardscircle.com), a uniquely unbiased, independent awards program,
today announced the winners of its inaugural 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.

Consumer/SOHO/SMB Hardware:
-- Hewlett Packard HP dc7900 Business Desktop PC
-- Tripp Lite ECO Series UPS Systems

-- Pano Logic Pano System 2.7

Consumer/SOHO Software or Service:
-- Decho Corp. MozyHome
-- iolo technologies, LLC System Mechanic 9

-- Bitstream BOLT Browser

SMB Software or Service:
-- Ifbyphone Ifbyphone Platform
-- Pano Logic Pano System 2.7

-- Concentric Concentric Managed Backup

Midrange Hardware:
-- Xiotech Emprise 7000 Edge
-- Storwize STN-6000i

-- ExaGrid Systems, Inc. ExaGrid Disk-based Backup System

Midrange Software or Service:
-- Seanodes Exanodes VM Edition
-- C2C Systems ArchiveOne

-- Marathon Technologies everRun 2G

Enterprise Hardware:
-- Schooner Information Technology Data Access Appliances
-- Net Optics, Inc. Director Data Monitoring Switch

-- Storwize STN-6000i

Enterprise Software
-- Rosetta Stone Rosetta Stone Enterprise Version 3
-- NetEx HyperIP

-- Librato Librato Load Manager

Enterprise Service:
-- Nirvanix CloudNAS
-- Asankya RAPIDnet

-- Global Capacity One Marketplace Initiative - Optimization and Expense
Managements service

Executive of the Year:
-- Noah Rowles, CEO and founder, iolo technologies, LLC
-- Kevin North, President & CEO, Dyadem

-- Ken Horner, Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and
Strategy,
Bakbone Software

Technologist of the Year
-- Jason Caulkins, Chief Technologist, Dataram
-- Vess Bakalov, Chief Technology Officer, SevOne, Inc.

-- Linda Brotherton, Chief Technology Officer, ConnectWise

Because the Enterprise Software category was so competitive, these additional
vendors were given Honorable Mention:
-- Gideon Technologies SecureFusion
-- InDorse Technologies InDorse Image Assurance (InDIA)
-- HardMetrics, Inc. Performance Manager (HPM v5.3)

-- Zeta Interactive Zeta Mail 5.0

"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 our first
time out of the gate, we were pleased to get entries of such a high quality.
Despite some challenging economic times, I can assure you there is much
progress to celebrate in high tech today."

Tech Awards Circle will be accepting a new crop of nominations for Winter 2010
in January.

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

Kevin Anderson of Tech Awards Circle, +1-214-272-0243,
info@techawardscircle.com