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Brand Leader History

Our Brand Leader surveys, covering hundreds of IT categories each year, monitor the pulse of IT pro perceptions for Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation Leaders in various product categories. See who they voted as the IT brand leaders in recent and past surveys:


March 2013 Brand Leaders

  IT Brand Pulse Market Leader IT Brand Pulse Price Leader IT Brand Pulse Performance Leader IT Brand Pulse Reliability Leader IT Brand Pulse Service & Support Leader IT Brand Pulse Innovation Leader
Firewalls Cisco Dell/SonicWall Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
Ethernet Switches Cisco Dell Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
WAN Optimization Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed Riverbed
Ethernet Network Monitoring SolarWinds SolarWinds SolarWinds SolarWinds SolarWinds SolarWinds
Application Delivery Controllers Citrix Citrix Citrix Citrix Citrix Citrix
Software Defined Networking VMware/
Nicira		 VMware/
Nicira		 VMware/
Nicira		 VMware/
Nicira		 Cisco/
Insiemi		 VMware/
Nicira
Embedded Blade Server Networking HP Dell HP HP HP HP
Fibre Channel HBAs QLogic QLogic QLogic QLogic QLogic QLogic
FCoE Storage EMC Dell EMC EMC EMC EMC
Fibre Channel Switches Brocade Brocade Brocade Brocade Brocade Brocade
Fibre Channel Storage EMC EMC EMC EMC EMC EMC
Fibre Channel Network Monitoring Cisco QLogic Brocade Cisco Cisco Cisco


February 2013 Brand Leaders

  IT Brand Pulse Market Leader IT Brand Pulse Price Leader IT Brand Pulse Performance Leader IT Brand Pulse Reliability Leader IT Brand Pulse Service & Support Leader IT Brand Pulse Innovation Leader
Ethernet NICs Intel Broadcom Intel Intel Intel Intel
Network Operating Systems Cisco IOS Cisco IOS Cisco IOS Cisco IOS Cisco IOS Cisco IOS
Network Virtualization VMware VMware VMware VMware VMware VMware
LOM Broadcom Broadcom Broadcom Intel Intel Broadcom
InfiniBand Adapters Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox
InfiniBand Switches Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox Mellanox
InfiniBand Storage IBM NetApp NetApp IBM IBM NetApp
iSCSI Storage Dell/ EqualLogic Dell/ EqualLogic Dell/ EqualLogic Dell/ EqualLogic Dell/ EqualLogic Dell/ EqualLogic
Low Latency Ethernet Switches Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco
Network Attached Storage (NAS) NetApp NetApp NetApp NetApp EMC NetApp
Cloud Storage Gateways Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services
WLAN Controllers/ Switches Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco Cisco

 

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