TechTarget Product Awards

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1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lisa Johnson TechTarget Six TechTarget Web Sites Publish 2005 Products of the Year Editors Select Best-in-Class Products in 23 Enterprise IT Categories NEEDHAM, Mass. January 20, 2006 The editors of six TechTarget Web sites, Search400.com, SearchExchange.com, SearchMobileComputing.com, SearchSQLServer.com, SearchWindowsSecurity.com, and SearchWinSystems.com, published their annual "Products of the Year" Awards today. Together, the Awards span 23 product categories and single out 69 new products enterprise IT professionals should consider adding to their "A" lists of products to evaluate. The products were judged by the editors of each Web site in conjunction with teams of users, industry experts, analysts and consultants. Judges evaluated more than 400 products shipped between September 30, 2004 and October 1, 2005 and selected the winning products based on six criteria: innovation performance ease of integration into existing environments ease of use and manageability functionality value Each judging panel selected a Gold, Silver and Bronze award winner in each category. Search400.com Products of the Year Category: Application Development Tools Gold: PlanetJ Corporation -- Web Object Wizard (WOW) 6.4 Silver: Business Computer Design International, Inc. --.WebSmart Version 5.2 Bronze: ProfoundLogic Software, Inc. -- RPG Smart Pages (RPGsp) Version 5.0 Category: Business-to-Business Solutions Gold: Data Transfer Technology, Inc. -- DTT1000 Voice Response Unit 6.0 Silver: Linoma Software-- Transfer Anywhere Version Bronze: menten EDV-Beratung GmbH -- i-effect V1R2

2 Category: Document/Image Management Software Gold: Business Computer Design International --Catapult, Version 5.6 Silver: CYBRA --MarkMagic Barcode Label, RFID Tag, and Forms Software, Version 5.2 Bronze: RJS Software Systems -- WebDocs iseries Edition, Version 1.84 Category: High Availability Products Gold: Vision Solutions, Inc. -- ORION for AIX, Version 1.1 Silver: DataMirror Corporation -- icluster 2.1 Bronze: itera, Inc. -- Echo² High Availability, Release 4.2 Category: Security Software Gold: Bytware Inc. -- StandGuard Recycle Bin Silver: Valid Technologies LLC -- Valid Secure System Authentication, v1r5 Bronze: ProData Computer Services, Inc. -- DBU Audit SearchExchange.com Products of the Year Category: Messaging Archiving and Compliance Gold: ZANTAZ Inc. -- ZANTAZ EAS (Enterprise Archive Solution) 4.2 Silver: Fortiva Inc. -- Fortiva Suite Bronze: Zip Lip Inc. -- ZipLip Unified Archival Suite, Version 5.0 Category: Messaging--Security Gold: CipherTrust, Inc. -- CipherTrust IronMail 6.0 Silver: MX Logic, Inc. -- MX Logic Defense Service Bronze: Tumbleweed Communications Corp. -- MailGate Firewall 6.2 Category: Messaging Backup and Recovery Gold: Mimosa Systems -- Mimosa NearPoint for Microsoft Exchange Server 1.0 Silver: CommVault Systems, Inc. -- CommVault QiNetix Version 5.9 Bronze: EMC Corporation -- EMC NetWorker Module for Microsoft Exchange Server SearchMobileComputing.com Products of the Year Category: Mobile Security

3 Gold: Whale -- Intelligent Application Gateway Express Edition 4.0 Silver: Trend Micro -- Trend Micro Mobile Security 2.0 Bronze: American Power Conversion -- APC PCMCIA Password Manager Category: Mobile Management Gold: Sprint -- Sprint Managed Mobility Services Silver: Nortel -- Nortel WLAN 2300 Bronze: Orative Orative Enterprise Software Category: Laptops/Notebooks/Tablet PCs Gold: Lenovo -- ThinkPad Z60 Series Silver: HP Compaq -- HP Compaq nx6125 Notebook PC Bronze: Itronix Corporation -- GoBook VR-1 Category: PDAs/Smartphones Gold: Palm -- Palm Treo 650 smartphone Silver: Motorola Motorola A780 Bronze: Sony -- Ericsson P910 Smart Phone/P910a SearchWin2000.com Products of the Year Category: Active Directory Gold: NetPro Computing, Inc.-- ChangeAuditor for Active Directory Version 2.6 Silver: NetPro Computing, Inc.-- RestoreADmin 1.0 Bronze: Special Operations Software -- Specops Deploy 3.0 Category: Group Policy Management Gold: Quest Software, Inc. -- Quest Group Policy Extensions for Desktops 2.0 Silver: FullArmor-- IntelliPolicy for Clients 1.5 Bronze: DesktopStandard Corporation -- GPOVault 2.1 SearchSQLServer.com Products of the Year Category: General Database Utilities Gold: Quest Software, Inc. -- LiteSpeed for SQL Server Version 4.0 Silver: Atadore SARL -- PromptSQL 1.0 Bronze: Red Gate Software, Ltd. -- SQL Backup & Rescue Bundle

4 SearchWindowsSecurity.com Products of the Year Category: Anti-spyware Gold: Barracuda Networks, Inc. -- Barracuda Spyware Firewall Silver: Webroot Software, Inc. -- Spy Sweeper Enterprise 2.5 Bronze: SunBelt Software -- CounterSpy Enterprise Version 1.5 Category: Patch Management Gold: Ecora Software Corporation -- Ecora Patch Manager 4.0 Silver: Shavlik Technologies, LLC. -- Shavlik NetChk Protect 5.5 Bronze: St. Bernard Software, Inc. -- UpdateEXPERT Premium Category: Testing and Auditing Gold: GFI Software Ltd. -- GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner 6.0 Silver: SPI Dynamics -- WebInspect 5.5 Bronze: Safend -- Safend Protector SearchWinSystems.com Products of the Year Category: Desktop Management Gold: Winternals Software Recovery Manager 2.0 Silver: Macrovision -- FLEXnet AdminStudio 7 Bronze: ScriptLogic Corporation -- Desktop Authority 6.5 Category: Blade Servers Gold: IBM BladeCenter HS20 Silver: Dell PowerEdge 1855 Bronze: Hewlett-Packard ProLiant BL45 BladeSystem. Category: Storage Management Software Gold: Storactive -- LiveBackup 2.9 Silver: Neverfail Group -- Neverfail High Availability Solution Bronze: Symantec Corporation -- VERITAS Storage Foundation High Availability for Windows 4.3 Category: Storage Hardware Gold: Alacritech, Inc. -- Alacritech SES2102ET iscsi Accelerator Silver: EqualLogic -- PS300E Storage Array Bronze: EMC Corporation -- EMC Centera Content Addressed Storage for Mid-Size Enterprises

5 Category: Systems Management Gold: Microsoft Corporation -- Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 Silver: Winternals Software -- Administrator's Pak 5.0 Bronze: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. -- HP OpenView Operations for Windows 7.5 Limited Edition About TechTarget TechTarget publishes integrated media that enable IT marketers to reach targeted communities of IT professionals and executives in all phases of the technology decision-making and purchase process. Through its industry-leading Web sites, magazines and conferences, TechTarget delivers measurable results that help IT marketers shorten sales cycles, grow revenues, and increase brand awareness. Founded in late 1999, TechTarget has won dozens of awards for its innovation and industry leadership, including more than 25 awards for editorial excellence in the past three years alone. In 2004, TechTarget was named to the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the United States. TechTarget s more than 2,500 advertisers include the leading IT companies in the world, among them, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Cisco, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and Intel. More information about TechTarget is available at ###