Technology media company TechTarget, Inc. announced the winners of the “Best of VMworld” 2011 Awards at the VMworld 2011 conference.

The awards cover the following nine categories of the virtualization market: business continuity & data protection; security & compliance for virtualization; virtualization management; hardware for virtualization; desktop virtualization; private cloud computing technologies; public/hybrid cloud computing technologies; new technology; and best of show.             

The Winners include:

Category: Business Continuity and Data Protection
Winner: Zerto, Zerto Virtual Replication
Runner-up StorSimple, StorSimple 5000 and 7000 appliance series
Runner-up: Vision Solutions, Double-Take Availability

Category: Security and Compliance for Virtualization
Winner AFORE Solutions, CloudLink V1.0
Runner-up: Juniper Networks, vGW Virtual Gateway Series

Category: Virtualization Management
Winner: SolarWinds, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager
Runner-up: Xangati Inc.,Xangati Management Dashboard Suite 4.0
Runner-up: Netuitive, Netuitive 5.5

Category: Hardware for Virtualization
Winner: Arista Networks, Arista EOS w/ VM Tracer/Auto-Segmentation
Runner-up: Tintri, Tintri VMstore T445

Category: Desktop Virtualization
Winner: Nutanix, Nutanix Complete Cluster
Runner-up: Teradici, APEX 2800 PCoIP Server Offload Card
Runner-up: Virtual Computer Inc. NxTop 4.0

Category: Private Cloud Computing Technologies

Winner: DynamicOps, DynamicOps Cloud Automation Center 4.1
Runner-up: Platform Computing, Platform ISF 2.2

Category: Public/Hybrid Cloud Computing Technologies
Winner: Skytap, Skytap Self-Service Hybrid Cloud

Category: New Technology

Winner: Veeam Software, Veeam Backup & Replication v6
Runner-up: Liquidware Labs, ProfileUnity v.5.0
Runner-up: CiRBA, CiRBA 7.0

Category: Best of Show
Winner: Zerto, Zerto Virtual Replication