Winners of the Best of VMware Explore Awards

The Security, Networking and Edge category includes products that monitor and protect hypervisors and guest OSes and enforce security protocols; products that enhance networking in virtual or cloud networks and/or optimize virtual networks; and tools that enable organizations to build edge computing infrastructure.

Winner: Application Metadata Intelligence (AMI), Gigamon

What the judges said: "Their approach to observability provides deep insight into network traffic and uses SSL decryption for ransomware threat monitoring."

Honorable mentions: Data Threat Analytics, Rubrik; Cohesity DataHawk, Cohesity