SOMERSET, N.J.  (January 17, 2008) - Raritan's Dominion® KX II has won IDG's InfoWorld 2008 Technology of the Year award for best KVM switch.

InfoWorld's 2008 Technology of the Year Awards recognize the top technologies and products that made the greatest impact during the past year. Selected by InfoWorld Test Center editors and reviewers, the annual awards recognize "the most capable, most polished, most groundbreaking, and most valuable products on the IT landscape." Winners are drawn from all of the products tested during the past year, with the final selections made by InfoWorld's Test Center staff.

Winners were announced last week on the InfoWorld site.

The Dominion KX II helps companies manage data centers by providing IT administrators easy and secure access and control to servers from anywhere -  helping to reduce downtime and increase productivity.

In announcing the award winners, InfoWorld said, "The Raritan Dominion KX II is light-years ahead of its predecessor, the Dominion KX. The interface is clean and easy to navigate, and the presentation is identical whether you're on the local console or connected remotely. Multiple simultaneous sessions are supported, and so is virtual media when used with the right interface module. All in all, this equals a big thumbs-up for the Dominion KX II." 

"We are honored that the Dominion KX II has been named Technology of the Year by such a well-respected publication," said Henry Hsu, Director of Enterprise Products at Raritan. "Used in thousands of data centers around the globe, the Dominion KX continues to prove itself as a best-in-class KVM switch. Valuable feedback from our customers and channel partners has helped make this product a winner."
 
"InfoWorld tests upwards of 200 IT products every year, and we see many, many good ones," said Doug Dineley, InfoWorld's Test Center Executive Editor. "Our Technology of the Year award winners represent not only the cream of the crop, but the best products in the most important product categories."

According to IDG's announcement, InfoWorld's 2008 Technology of the Year Award winners in the Hardware category include: "DELL (Best Blade Server System), HP (Best Blade System for Small Sites), SUN (Best Storage Server),

STRATUS (Best Fault-Tolerant Server), APC (Best Row Cooling Solution),

RARITAN (Best KVM), APPLE (Best Notebook Computer), NOKIA (Best Mobile Handset for the Enterprise), HTC (Best Notebook Substitute)."

The complete InfoWorld Test Lab review on the Dominion KX II -- entitled "Raritan changes the KVM game" -- can be found here.

More information on the Dominion KX II is available at http://www.raritan.com/products/kvm-over-ip/dominion-kx-ii.

About InfoWorld Media Group (InfoWorld.com)
InfoWorld Media Group helps IT Decision Makers choose the right technology, within the context of a cohesive strategy for business impact at their organizations. InfoWorld identifies and promotes emerging technology segments that add unique value for the organizations that implement them, as well as the vendors that provide those solutions. Using an integrated communications approach including online, events, research, and a continued investment in an independent Test Center, InfoWorld analysts and editors provide hands-on analysis and evaluation, as well as expert commentary on issues surrounding emerging technologies and products. Visit InfoWorld at http://www.infoworld.com.

About Raritan (Raritan.com)
Raritan is a leading provider of secure IT infrastructure management solutions. We offer IT and facility directors, managers and administrators the control they need to increase power management efficiency, improve data center productivity and enhance branch office operations. In over 50,000 locations worldwide, our integrated secure in-band and out-of-band products help companies monitor and manage their energy, servers and other IT devices. Our intelligent PDUs, combined with energy management software and environmental sensors, offer remote power control and monitoring at the rack and device level, empowering data center owners with information to improve uptime and capacity planning, while efficiently utilizing energy to save power and money. And our access solutions, including KVM, serial and centralized management devices, offer unprecedented control of servers to maintain mission-critical environments. Raritan's OEM division provides embedded hardware and firmware for server and client management, including intelligent power management, KVM over IP, IPMI and other industry standards-based management applications. For more information, please visit Raritan.com.