B&S Names Big Byte Finalists

NEW YORK -- Light Reading's Byte and Switch (www.byteandswitch.com), the premier online storage networking publication, today named the finalists in its first annual Big Bytes Awards competition.

The Big Bytes, created to recognize excellence, innovation, and creativity in storage products, services, and implementations, will be awarded during StoragePlus 2006 – Byte and Switch's two-day enterprise storage conference and exhibition, to be held in Burlingame, Calif., September 12-13, 2006.

"The Big Bytes won't just honor the latest and greatest coming out of the vendor labs; we're also looking at interesting new ways that storage technology gets deployed," said Terry Sweeney, editor-in-chief of Byte and Switch. "We're giving Big Bytes to users of different sizes, from medium and small businesses as well as large enterprises. It's time to reward the innovation that comes from the folks in the trenches who actually have to deploy these products."

Three finalists were selected for each of the 12 Big Bytes categories:

The winners will be announced in a ceremony on Sept. 12, the first day of the StoragePlus conference. For more information about StoragePlus 2006, visit: www.storageplusexpo.com.

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Byte and Switch is the flagship enterprise Web publication of CMP Technology's business unit, Light Reading Inc. As the Web's leading storage networking site, Byte and Switch delivers the latest in news, product reviews, and customer case studies, as well as Insider research reports on storage and data networking technologies.

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Founded in 2000, Light Reading Inc. (www.lightreading.com) is the ultimate source for technology and financial analysis of the communications industry, leading the media sector in terms of traffic, content, and reputation. It reaches an extensive audience of executives and technologists within the telecom and enterprise networking communities, as well as the financial/industry analysts and investors who track these sectors. Light Reading was acquired by United Business Media in August 2005, and operates as a unit of CMP Technology.

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