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    Channel Insider`s 10 Best Products of the Year

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    1. Channel Insider`s 10 Best Products of the Year
    2. Network Security
    3. Host/Client Security
    4. Storage
    5. Storage Management
    6. Peripherals
    7. Notebooks
    8. Servers
    9. Data Networking
    10. Voice Networking
    11. Business Applications

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    For Channel Insider’s top 10 best products of 2008, Senior Technology Editor Frank Ohlhorst looked back at more than 200 products he reviewed throughout the year and weighed them for innovation, functionality, up-sell and value-add service opportunities and market potential.The result is this top 10 list of the best of the best.

    Over the course of the year, I tested and reviewed more than 200 products ranging from portable peripherals to 2U data center appliances, from office productivity software to processors, from next-generation netbooks to cloud-based services. I’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly. They’ve all had one thing in common, though: they’re all sold through the channel.

    To end the year on a positive note, I’ve reviewed all of my reviews to pick the cream of the crop, the best of the best channel products of the year. I’ve re-examined the results and put a new evaluation filter on them, screening the previous reviews for their innovation, up-sell opportunities, value-added service opportunities and market potential. I’ve also took vendor’s channel support program into consider. The result is my picks for the best channel products of the year in these 10 categories:

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    1. Network Security

    2. Host/Client Security

    3. Storage

    4. Storage Management

    5. Peripherals

    6. Notebooks

    7. Servers

    8. Data Networking

    9. Voice Networking

    10. Business Applications




     
     
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