Penton’s Windows IT Pro And SQL Server Magazine Name “Best of Tech•Ed IT Professionals” Winners

6/16/2008

NEW YORK (June 16, 2008) - Penton Media's Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine have announced the winners of the "Best of Tech•Ed IT Professionals Awards 2008" competition. The judges reviewed more than 200 IT products and services submitted for the contest and chose 29 finalists to be interviewed at the recent Tech•Ed IT Professionals conference in Orlando, Fla. Winners of "Best of Tech•Ed IT Professionals Awards 2008" will be featured in the August issues of Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine.

The nine "Best of Tech•Ed IT Professionals" category winners and two special recognition award winners are:

Business Intelligence:
SoftArtisans OfficeWriter

Database Administration:
Idera SQL Diagnostic Manager

Hardware, Networking, and Storage:
Strangeloop Networks WS1000 Web Services Accelerator

Messaging:
Azaleos OneServer Virtual Edition

Productivity and Collaboration:
Colligo Networks Colligo Contributor for SharePoint

Security:
Trend Micro ScanMail for Exchange

SharePoint:
AvePoint DocAve Software Platform for SharePoint

Systems Management and Operations:
Odyssey Software Athena

Virtualization:
VMware Infrastructure 3

Breakthrough Product:
Quest Software PowerGUI

Attendees' Pick:
Syntergy Replicator for SharePoint

For more information, contact Amy Reitz, Marketing Communications Manager, Windows IT Media at 1-(970) 203-2954 or areitz@penton.com.

Penton Media's Windows IT Media, the largest independent Windows IT community in the world, has Windows IT Pro as its flagship print publication. Windows IT Media also includes SQL Server Magazine and MSD2D. The Windows IT Media network has 2.5 million unique visitors to its Web sites each month, and more than one million subscribers who opt-in to one or more email newsletters. Windows IT Media is the world's leading producer of custom road shows, paid conferences and paid workshops for Windows and SQL Server IT professionals. For more information, visit www.windowsitpro.com/pressroom.

Penton Media, Inc. is the largest independent business-to-business media company in the U.S., serving more than six million business professionals every month. The company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 150 industry trade shows and conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Headquartered in New York City, the privately held company is owned by MidOcean Partners and U.S. Equity Partners II, an investment fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP, and its co-investors. For additional information on the company and its businesses, visit www.penton.com.


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