Tech Awards Circle celebrates the products, services, vendors and individuals making a difference in the industry today. The winners represent a broad range of achievements, from hardware to software to services in consumer/SOHO, SMB, midrange, and enterprise markets. Gold, silver and bronze awards were given out in each category.

"Despite overwhelmingly strong competition, ExaGrid exhibited true industry excellence to be recognized among the top of the Tech Awards Circle", stated Kevin Anderson, awards programme co-ordinator. "Our judges were pleased at the level of submissions from all the vendors entering this year's competition, so to be named a winner of this prestigious award is a testament to the quality and innovation unrivaled in the high tech community. We wish them continued success and look forward to them defending their title during the next awards period."

ExaGrid's fast, highly scalable disk back-up appliance with data deduplication allows changes to be stored from back-up to back-up instead of storing full data-sets, reducing the disk space required by a range of 10:1 to 50:1 or more and delivering unparalleled cost savings and performance. ExaGrid delivers extremely fast back-up performance because data is written directly to disk and data deduplication is performed post-process after the data is stored. With ExaGrid, organisations can store a 1TB to 100TB full backup, plus retention, on a single scalable system.

"The recognition from Tech Awards Circle of ExaGrid's product leadership validates our continued commitment to delivering the highest performance and most scalable disk backup solutions that also offer the best price/performance of any NAS-based disk backup system with deduplication available today", stated Bill Hobbib, vice president of Marketing for ExaGrid. "Businesses continue to demand faster and more reliable data back-ups, fast disaster recovery, and low IT operational costs, and ExaGrid delivers these attributes in its best-in-class product, along with responsive, knowledgeable technical support."