Virtualization, viewed as one of the most promising technology investments in an economic downturn, is of great interest to enterprises seeking to build a flexible IT infrastructure that can keep pace with rapid business change. Investments are being made in proven products for infrastructure virtualization management, dynamic workload management, moving edge applications to cloud computing service providers, and tools for power management - to name just a few.
SYS-CON Events offered all delegates at the 5^th International Virtualization Conference & Expo 2009 East in New York, NY, the opportunity to cast their vote for their favorite virtualization technology provider in four highly competitive categories. The results have been announced, and they are as follows:

Best Overall Virtualization Product
Winner: Virtual Server 2005 - Microsoft
Runner-up: Sun xVM Virtualization Platform - Sun Microsystems

Best Greener IT Product
Winner: Virtual Desktop Financial Model - VIRTERA
Runner-up: Systems x Servers - IBM

Best Server Virtualization Solution
Winner: Reduced Data Center TCO with Virtualization in Pharmaceutical Industry - VIRTERA
Runner-up: Virtual Server 2005 - Microsoft

Best Management Solution
Winner: Virtual Machine Manager - Microsoft
Runner-up: Dynamic State Management - Tranxition