Everything Channel Announces the 2009 CRN Channel Bestsellers List

List Showcases Top Revenue Producing Technologies Sold through the IT Channel; Assists Solution Providers Make Strategic Decisions about Top Selling Products

PRNewswire-FirstCall
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.
Apr 1, 2009

Everything Channel, a division of United Business Media, today announced the 2009 CRN Channel Bestsellers List which helps technology Solution Providers make strategic decisions about the top selling products in the IT Channel. The list recognizes the most popular technology categories and brands being sold through the IT Channel today.

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CRN partnered with the NPD Group, the world's leading provider of technology market research information to compile the data. The CRN Channel Bestsellers list represents the top five best-selling technologies in 20 technology categories, the leading Channel Bestseller in each category, and the Top Growth Bestseller. The #1 Channel Bestseller is determined by market share data from January through December 2008, while the #1 Top Growth Bestseller is determined by change in share between January through December 2007 and January through December 2008.

"The CRN Channel Bestsellers List helps Solution Providers make important product decisions and educated recommendations. We applaud the vendors who made the list," said Robert C. DeMarzo, senior vice president and editorial director, Everything Channel.

  The 2009 CRN Channel Bestsellers list follows:


  Systems        Top 1         Top 2        Top 3       Top 4        Top 5
               ($Volume      ($Volume     ($Volume    ($Volume     ($Volume
                 Share)        Share)       Share)      Share)       Share)

  Desktops      Hewlett-      Lenovo      Apple ***      Acer       -------
                 Packard **

  Notebooks     Hewlett-      Lenovo      Panasonic      Sony      Apple ***
                 Packard **

  Blade                       Hewlett-
   Servers         IBM         Packard *   -------      -------     -------

  Peripherals:
   Color LCD                  Hewlett-     NEC Display
   19-30"       Samsung **     Packard ***  Solutions   Viewsonic     Acer

  Peripherals:
   Color LCD   NEC Display
   (> 30")      Solutions **  Samsung      Panasonic ***   LG       Sharp

  Document                    Hewlett-
   Scanners    Fujitsu *       Packard       Canon        Kodak    Visioneer

  MFP          Hewlett-
                Packard **    Lexmark ***   Brother       Xerox      Canon

  Color Laser  Hewlett-
   Printers     Packard *     Xerox        Lexmark       Okidata     Ricoh

  Projectors   Epson *        In Focus     NEC          Panasonic  Viewsonic

  UPS          APC by         Tripp        Eaton
                Schneider      Lite         Powerware    Liebert   Hewlett-
                Electronics *                                       Packard

  Network
   Security                                              McAfee  Watchguard
   Hardware    Cisco **      SonicWall       Nokia        ***   Technologies

  VPN          CheckPoint *  Watchguard    SonicWall
                             Technologies     Inc        -------   -------

  E-mail
   Security    TrendMicro *   Symantec      CA, Inc.     Microsoft   IBM

  Security                                               Kasperky
   Suites      Symantec *   Trend Micro   McAfee Inc.      Lab      CA, Inc.

  SMB Routers   Cisco
               Systems (incl.
                Linksys) **  D-Link ***   Netgear Inc    Adtran       Nortel

  SMB Wireless  Cisco
   Routers     Systems (incl.
                Linksys) **  D-Link ***   Netgear Inc     Apple    Trendware

  External                   Seagate
   Hard        Western       (incl.                                 Buffalo
   Drives       Digital *  Maxtor brand)    LaCie        Iomega   Technology

  NAS          Buffalo      Hewlett-       Network      Netgear       Sun
              Technology **  Packard      Appliance       Inc.       Micro-
                                                                 Systems ***

  Business
   Software
   (Rel.                                               Filemaker,
   Databases)  Microsoft *    IBM           Oracle        Inc.      -------

  Storage Mgmt  Symantec/                                            EMC
   Software      Veritas **   IBM ***      CA, Inc.     Acronis  Corporation

  * #1 Best Seller + Biggest Share Gain
  ** #1 Best Seller
  *** #1 Biggest Share Gain


For additional information on the CRN Channel Bestsellers List, visit: www.channelweb.com.

Everything Channel (www.everythingchannel.com, www.channelweb.com)

Everything Channel is the one-stop shop for accessing, enabling, managing and accelerating technology sales channels. From branding and recruiting to marketing and sales, Everything Channel offers technology marketers the unmatched breadth and depth of global brands and market intelligence combined with unparalleled audience loyalty and credibility serving all technology sales channels through an extensive database. Everything Channel provides innovative sales and marketing solutions to arm the sellers of technology with the resources they need to achieve measurable and significant results.

About United Business Media Limited (www.unitedbusinessmedia.com)

UBM (UBM.L) focuses on two principal activities: worldwide information distribution, targeting and monitoring; and, the development and monetisation of B2B communities and markets. UBM's businesses inform markets and serve professional commercial communities - from doctors to game developers, from journalists to jewellery traders, from farmers to pharmacists - with integrated events, online, print and business information products. Our 6,500 staff in more than 30 countries are organised into specialist teams that serve these communities, bringing buyers and sellers together, helping them to do business and their markets to work effectively and efficiently.

  Contact
  Maureen Park
  Everything Channel
  516 562 5942
  mpark@everythingchannel.com

First Call Analyst:
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SOURCE: Everything Channel

CONTACT: Maureen Park, Everything Channel, +1-516-562-5942,
mpark@everythingchannel.com

Web Site: http://www.channelweb.com/