03/29/05 -
Onaro Named By eWEEK as a Finalist in the 5th Annual Excellence Award Program.
Onaro Named By eWEEK as a Finalist in the 5th Annual Excellence Award Program
Industry Leading Storage Monitoring and Change Management Solution Continues to Earn Praise For Outstanding Achievement and Innovation
BOSTON, March 29, 2005 – Onaro, Inc., the pioneer of Change Management software for storage networks, announced today that eWEEK, a Ziff Davis Media publication and one of the IT industry’s leading enterprise magazines, has named SANscreen® 2.8 a finalist in eWEEK’s fifth annual Excellence Awards program in the Enterprise Storage Software category. Winners will be honored at a special ceremony on April 26 in Boston, Mass. Analysis of the winning products and services will also be published in a special report in the April 11 edition of eWEEK and at www.eweek.com.
Onaro's SANscreen Monitoring and Predictive Change Management software is used by the world’s leading corporations to manage change and growth in their increasingly complex SANs. SANscreen continuously monitors the SAN, quickly troubleshoots problems, predicts the impact of planned changes before implementation and validates the condition of a SAN throughout changes, migrations and consolidations. This honor marks the latest in a series of major industry accolades that validate Onaro’s dominant position in the SAN management market.
"Onaro's designation as a finalist for the eWEEK Excellence Award further verifies that SANscreen uniquely addresses one of the most critical and highest growth areas of today’s IT infrastructure - the SAN," said Andrew Bird, Onaro’s vice president of marketing. "SANscreen enables our customers to automate and simplify the SAN change management process, providing visibility into the complex SAN and proactive insight to monitor, troubleshoot, and manage even the most dynamic storage environments."
The eWEEK Excellence Awards program provides enterprise professionals with a comprehensive benchmark for assessing a wide range of technology products and services. Evaluating the entries is a panel of experts including eWEEK Labs analysts and eWEEK Corporate Partners – senior enterprise IT professionals who act as reader representatives.
"We’ve seen a lot of impressive entries in the five years that we’ve been conducting the Excellence Awards program, but this year’s entries really illustrate the tremendous effort the industry is making to respond to the demands of enterprise IT professionals," said Eric Lundquist, Editor-in-Chief, eWEEK. "The Excellence Awards judges saw an impressive maturity and sophistication in the entries in critical areas."
This achievement comes on the heels of other recent industry accolades for Onaro, which include the 2005 Network Storage Conference Award for Best Software, the 2004 Product of the Year for Storage Management by Storage magazine and SearchStorage.com, Top Ten Private Companies in the Winter 2004 by Byte & Switch, and a 2004 InfoWorld 100 award for State Street Global Advisors’ (SSgA) application of SANscreen.
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