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TechTarget announces Best of VMworld 2020 Award winners

The Best of VMworld 2020 Awards highlight the most innovative products from VMware ecosystem partners. Here are the winners of all six categories and the Best of Show.

The Best of VMworld 2020 Awards recognize the most innovative new products in the server virtualization, cloud and end-user computing markets. TechTarget conducted this year's deliberations virtually and a panel of expert judges evaluated nominated products on multiple criteria, including innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use.

The judges named winners in six categories, including two Judges' Choice categories, plus a Best of Show overall winner.

Virtualization, Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps

Winner: Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HPE Nimble Storage dHCI
Finalist: Silk, Silk Cloud Data Platform

Networking and Security

Winner: Nvidia, ConnectX-6 Dx
Finalist: Men&Mice, Men&Mice DDI Suite

Resilience and Recovery

Winner: Metallic (a Commvault venture), Core Backup & Recovery
Finalist: Synology Inc., Unified Controller UC3200
Finalist: Nakivo Inc., Backup & Replication

Digital Workspace

Winner: ThinPrint, ezeep Hub

Disruptive Technology

Co-winner: Intel, Optane persistent memory
Co-winner: Nvidia, Virtual Compute Server (vCS)

Startup Spotlight

Winner: OpenFaaS Ltd.

Best of Show

Winner: Nvidia, ConnectX-6 Dx

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