VARBusiness has named the finalists in its 5th annual Tech Innovators competition.

Vendors competed in a variety of categories such as Connectivity, Security and Virtualization.

The winners will be announced Monday at the XChange Tech Innovators event in Miami.

-- Oracle SOA Suite: Oracle SOA Suite is a complete set of service infrastructure components.

-- Foglight: Foglight is the only adaptive application and services management solution unifying IT and business.

-- Zimbra Collaboration Suite 4.5 (pictured): Zimbra Desktop allows users to access email and documents while offline.

BUSINESS SMB

-- RHUB 200: 4-in-1 on premise appliance - remote support, web conferencing, access to this PC and webinar in one unit

-- trixbox 2.0: trixbox is the fastest, and easiest implementation of Asterisk, the popular open source IP-PBX.

-- PASS Commerce Center: This is a free comprehensive program for small business to manage all of their financial needs.

-- Yosemite FileKeeper Pro: FileKeeper Professional is powerful but affordable file backup and version rollback software.

-- NetVanta 1335: First device to combine the functionality of up to six devices in a single platform (Wi-Fi, router, PoE switch, firewall, VPN, CSU/DSU).

-- HomeRemote Wireless Home Automation System: Allows you to control your lighting, appliances and view live video remotely from your cell phone or internet web browser.

-- ProSafe 48-Port Gigabit Ethernet PoE Smart Switch (pictured): Fills the gap between unmanaged and fully managed switches.

DISPLAY

-- Planar Systems PX2611W: Widescreen display allows for viewing two full pages of text and graphics. side by side

-- Samsung SyncMaster 225UW (pictured): Has a built in communication platform and Vista certification.

-- ViewSonic WPG-150: Lets users share one projector without swapping cables.

-- OptiView Series III Integrated Network Analyzer: Totally integrated, single user interface that replaces the need for mulitple monitoring and troubleshooting tools.

-- Motorola MC35 Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA): Combines phone, computer, GPS, camera, and bar code reader in one device.

-- OpenStage IP Phones: Utilize Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to integrate wired, wireless and IP communications.

MANAGED SERVICES

-- Digisense System: Turn-key onsite backup and offsite archiving at a low monthly fee.

-- Managed Workplace(r) version 6.0 (pictured): Provides a platform that allows vendors to easily plug their products and services manageable in a managed service environment.

-- N-central 6.5 (Velocity System & Momentum System): Cost-effective desktop management at all levels of managed services.

-- HP Compaq dc5750 Business Desktop PC: Configurations include the power-efficient technologies for an environmentally friendly PC

-- ThinkCentre A61e: 85 percent efficient power supply.

-- Shuttle XPC SG33G5 Pro: Only fingerprint recognition in market.

PORTABLE

-- Motion C5 (pictured): First slate tablet PC designed with and for healthcare professionals.

-- Toughbook 52: Engineered for durability with magnesium alloy construction.

-- Q1 Ultra: Replaces 6+ LB notebook with 1.5lb device without the loss of functionality.

-- HP CM8060/CM8050 Color MFPs with Edgeline Technology: Handles high-volume workloads with the combined benefits of ink and laser in a single device.

-- C8800 Series digital color printers: Business printer compact enough to fit on a desktop.

-- Xerox WorkCentre 7300 Series (7335 pictured): Fastest warm-up time in its class.

SECURITY

-- RSA enVision Platform: Collects and protects data from any IP device without filtering and without the need to deploy agents.

-- TZ 190 Wireless: Enables organizations to establish secure wireless broadband network access without a wired Internet connection.

-- Symantec Mobile Security Suite 5.0: Antivirus, advanced firewall, antispam and data encryption technologies for PDAs and smartphones.

-- Aberdeen "Blade Killer" Stirling 122: Effectively 2 individual servers housed in a standard sized 1U chassis.

-- Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor: Presents a native multi-core architecture where all four cores are on one piece of silicon.

-- HP BladeSystem c3000 enclosure or "Shorty" (pictured): Rack-based, compact 10.5-inch-high design that fits up to eight blades and plugs into a standard 110- or 220-volt wall outlet.

-- SGI Altix ICE 8200: Bladed server purpose-built to handle true HPC applications and large scale-out deployments.

STORAGE

-- Celerra NS20: All-in-one connectivity -- combines NAS, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel in one convenient, flexible storage solution.

-- FalconStor CDP Virtual Appliance for VMware Virtual Infrastructure: Features include application aware snapshots, database agent, serverless backup acceleration, and remote replication.

-- Vembu StoreGrid - Service Provider Edition: cross-platform solution for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD & Mac OSX

-- Catbird V-Agent: Architecture is 100 percent plug-and-play for virtualized environments.

-- Virtual Iron 4.0: Users can install and deploy without touching any of the physical servers to be virtualized.

-- VMware Workstation: Industry-first support for multiple display monitors and USB 2.0 devices.

-- ZXTM VA (ZXTM Virtual Appliance): The only traffic management product available as a virtual appliance.

VOIP

-- ShoreTel 7 (pictured top): Higher-density switch chassis presented in a smaller physical footprint.

-- Cisco Smart Business Communications System (pictured bottom): Integration of functions - includes call processing, integrated voicemail, auto attendant, firewall, security, switching, routing and wireless LANs

-- Switchvox SMB 3.0: Built from the ground up as an IP PBX, rather than having VoIP "bolted on."

-- DiVitas Mobile-to-Mobile Convergence Solution: PBX agnostic, WLAN agnostic, handset agnostic, and carrier agnostic (it works with both GSM and CDMA).

-- Extricom WLAN, featuring the EXRP-40 Four-Radio AP: Quad-radio APs provide a four-blanket multi-layer WLAN, so four channels, in any mix of band and mode can simultaneously carry wireless traffic over the same wireless infrastructure.

-- Ruckus ZoneFlex System (pictured): Has a high-gain smart antenna array and automatic wireless encryption.