IT Brand Pulse Honoring 2013 Networking Innovation Leaders at Ethernet Technology Summit

Online, March 24, 2013 (Newswire.com) - The list of companies that stand out in the minds of IT professionals for network-related innovation in 2013 includes:

• Cisco captured six innovation awards in Ethernet Switches, Network Operating System, Low-Latency Ethernet Switches, Firewalls, Fibre Channel Network Monitoring and WLAN Controllers.

• VMware, the server virtualization pioneer, was selected as innovation leader for Network Virtualization and Software Defined Networking (Google and Cisco tied for second in the SDN category).

• Amazon Web Services was chosen as the innovation leader for Cloud Storage Gateways.

• Broadcom demonstrated that brand counts in some semiconductor categories by winning the LAN-on-Motherboard category for the third straight year.

• SolarWinds, the company that best leverages its website to develop business, was voted innovation leader for Ethernet Network Monitoring.

"The February and March 2013 brand leader survey results reflect how cloud computing is changing perceptions of leadership in the IT community," said Frank Berry, CEO and Analyst with IT Brand Pulse. "VMware and Google ranked at or near the top as network virtualization leaders, while Amazon Web Services was voted a leader in an important storage category."

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