CMP Channel's CRNtech Announces Its 2007 Product of the Year ListPRNewswire Today, CMP Channel's CRNtech announced its Products of the Year list for 2007. The ten winners were announced online at www.ChannelWeb.com and will be featured in the December 17 issue of CRNtech magazine, the IT Channel's handbook for technology products and services. Winners: Security Product of the Year: SonicWall TZ 180 Virtualization Product of the Year: VMWare Infrastructure 3 with Lab Manager VoIP Product of the Year: Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 Wireless Product of the Year: Extricom Interference-Free EXWO-404 WLAN Switch Operating System of the Year: Microsoft Windows XP Application of the Year: Tableau v3.0 Desktop of the Year: HP Compaq dc7800 Ultra Slim Desktop PC Notebook of the Year: Toshiba Portege R400 Chip of the Year: Quad-Core AMD Opteron Smartphone of the year: RIM BlackBerry Curve 8310 The winners were chosen by CMP Channel editorial staff and were chosen based on the results of earlier CRNtech and CRN Test Center editorial reviews performed throughout 2007. "A wave of new and exciting products arrived in 2007, and picking the cream of the crop was both a challenge, and a positive sign that vendors are delivering tools that increase the value solution providers can deliver to their customers," said Robert C. DeMarzo, vice president and editorial director, CMP Channel. About CMP Channel (www.cmpchannelgroup.com) CMP Channel is the one stop shop customers turn to in order to meet their global sales channel objectives from access to execution. Through use of its family of channel solutions which include CRN and VARBusiness, the ChannelWeb network, XChange Events and the Institute for Partner Education & Development (IPED), vendors are able to accelerate sales through the channel. CMP Channel provides a worldwide answer to advertising, branding and marketing services, lead generation, market intelligence, branded and custom events, education of solution providers and best practices for vendors. About CMP CMP (http://www.cmp.com/) is a media and marketing solutions company serving the technology industry. With the leading online, event and print brands in all technology market categories, and with services and tools that reach beyond traditional advertising, CMP shapes and influences the technology industry worldwide. CMP publishes highly respected media brands such as TechWeb, InformationWeek, ChannelWeb, CRN, EE Times and TechOnline; produces major industry events such as Interop, Web 2.0 Expo, XChange, Game Developers Conference and the Embedded Systems Conferences; and provides business information and marketing services such as the International Customer Management Institute, Semiconductor Insights and Second Life consulting for technology marketers. CMP is a subsidiary of United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com/), a global provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a market capitalization of more than $3 billion. For more CMP news, go to cmp.com/news. Contact Dan Neel CMP Channel 516.562.7236 dneel@cmp.com SOURCE: CMP CONTACT: Dan Neel of CMP Channel, +1-516-562-7236, dneel@cmp.com Web site: http://www.cmp.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/181993.html |