of the Products 2023 Year Powered-Up And Partner-Friendly
By Rick Whiting
Our 2023 Products of the Year awards honor the leading partner-friendly products that launched over the last year as selected by the solution providers that bring these products to their customers. CRN editors selected finalists in 33 technology categories from among products that were newly launched or updated from September 2022 to September 2023. The categories ranged from mainstay channel products like laptops, servers and storage systems to products in newer technology areas such as enterprise AI, application performance/observability, and converged/hyperconverged infrastructure and hybrid cloud infrastructure. We then asked solution providers to rate the products based on three subcategories: technology, revenue and profit, and customer need. The survey received more than 5,000 product ratings from solution providers, and the product with the highest overall score (the average of the three subcategory scores) in each product category was named the winner. What follows are the winners, subcategory winners and finalists for 2023.
APPLICATION PERFORMANCE/ OBSERVABILITY IBM INSTANA WINNER: OVERALL
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INFRASTRUCTURE LENOVO THINKSYSTEM SR675 V3 WINNER: OVERALL
IBM Instana is a fully automated ap- plication performance management system designed for the challenges of managing microservice and cloud- native applications. Instana monitors
AI applications, especially machine learning and deep learning, require a lot of compute horsepower. The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR675 V3 is
a versatile GPU-rich 3U rack server that delivers optimal perfor- mance for AI, high-performance computing and graphical work- loads. The system runs on one or two AMD EPYC 9004 Series processors, supports up to eight double-wide Nvidia PCIe GPUs, and utilizes the Lenovo Neptune hybrid liquid-to-air cooling technology. Lenovo’s ThinkSystem scored highest overall in this category and in both revenue and profit and customer need.
and analyzes data for applications, services, infrastructure, web browsers, mobile applications and more for over 200 domain- specific technologies. The system alerts managers when users are impacted by application performance or stability issues. IBM Instana scored highest overall in this category and in revenue and profi t. Subcategory Winner–Technology: New Relic Platform Subcategory Winner–Customer Need: Dynatrace Platform Finalist: Cisco Full-Stack Observability Finalist: Datadog Platform
Subcategory Winner-Technology: SuperMicro Nvidia HGX H100 8 GPU Server Finalist: Dell PowerEdge XE9680 Finalist: HPE ProLiant DL380a
Finalist: SolarWinds Observability Finalist: Splunk Observability Cloud
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