Cisco tops three product categories; EMC wins two; Dell, Citrix, Cumulus, HPE, IBM/Cleversafe, Intel, Riverbed, and SolarWinds also named Market Leaders

Dell, HPE, Intel, Microsoft, Oracle each named Market Leader in two product categories; Amazon Web Services, Cisco & VMware also receive Market Leader titles

Cisco, EMC, NetApp Each Capture Market Leader Titles in Two Product Categories; Dell Storage, Seagate, Brocade, IBM, QLogic, Quantum Also Named Market Leaders

Innovation Leaders Voted by IT Professionals for Flash Storage

SanDisk, NetApp Each Take Market Leader Title in Three Product Categories; EMC Wins Two; Other Leaders: Dell Storage, HP, Intel, Nutanix, Samsung, LinkedIn

EMC Named Market Leader in Three Product Categories; NetApp Tops Two. Other Leaders: Brocade, Citrix, Dell, IBM, QLogic, Quantum & Seagate

Innovation Leaders Voted by IT Professionals for Ethernet, Networking & SDN

Repeat winners Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, SolarWinds & VMware; Cumulus Networks, Dell and HP also top charts

Repeat winners Dell, Emulex, HP, Intel, Microsoft, Riverbed & VMware; Nutanix & Palo Alto Networks top charts for first time

IT Pros Voted for Innovation Leaders in Open-Source Hardware, Scale-Out Object Storage, Converged Systems, Low-Latency Networking, ADCs, WLAN & Dense Low Power Microservers

Winners selected for Enterprise Backup, Dedicated Server, Virtual Servers, Virtual Desktops and Networked Storage

"We identified fourteen distinct flash storage categories in 2014," said Frank Berry, CEO and Analyst with IT Brand Pulse. "In this still emerging industry, IT Pros selected 11 different Market leaders."

Award Winners Voted by IT Pros in Non-Sponsored 2014 Brand Leader Surveys

Survey respondents were asked which vendors they perceive as the Market, Price, Performance, Reliability, Service & Support and Innovation Leader for fifteen product categories.

Winners in 14 categories chosen by IT Pros in recent brand leader survey to be presented awards on Wednesday, April 30, from 6 pm - 6:30 pm at the Ethernet Technology Summit (Santa Clara Convention Center).

Survey respondents were asked which vendors they perceive as the leader in thirteen product categories.

IT Brand Pulse wil honor Innovation Leaders in 24 network-related product categories as voted on by IT professionals in 2013 on Thursday, April 4, at 1:00 p.m. in the Exhibit Hall at the Ethernet Technology Summit (Santa Clara Marriott).

IT professionals selected leaders in: Cloud Storage Gateway, iSCSI Storage, NAS, InfiniBand Storage, NICs, NOS, Network Virtualization, LOM, InfiniBand Adapter, InfiniBand Switch, Low Latency Ethernet Switch, WLAN Controller/Switch