SAN FRANCISCO -- There is no shortage of vendors presenting new and improved products at VMworld 2010 this week, with 200 entrants vying for Best of VMworld 2010 Awards in eight categories.
The panel of judges for the Best of VMworld 2010 Awards was a mix of industry experts, IT consultants and TechTarget editors. Entrants were scored on innovation, the value provided by the product, performance, reliability and ease of use. Categories included business continuity and data protection, security and virtualization, hardware for virtualization, desktop virtualization, private cloud computing, public/hybrid cloud computing and new technology.

There were 29 products submitted in the Desktop Virtualization category, which also featured two finalists: Wanova Inc. for Wanova Mirage and Virtual Computer Inc. for NxTop.
The Gold winner was Kaviza for Kaviza VDI in-a-box 3.0, because it offers a full virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environment that IT pros can have up and running in less than an hour.
"It's VDI that anyone can build," said Brian Madden, a desktop virtualization expert, blogger and category judge.