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In the article announcing the winners, Network World notes that the award "celebrates the best and most innovative products of the year" in enterprise networking and the enterprise data center. Products are judged according to three criteria: technology impact, business impact, and innovation.

The Network World announcement included the following quote from this category’s award judge: "Automated data backups are critically important in the face of ransomware and other types of cyberattacks. But that’s only half the battle. Organizations need to quickly and securely restore data. With BackBox, the restore process is initiated with a single click that triggers validation of backup data, followed by rapid restore."

BackBox is a purpose-built automation platform designed to power even the largest network while still being easy to deploy and get value straight "out of the box." It automates backups across 180 different network vendors. Prebuilt automations solve for the most common use cases, including device backups, with single-click restore, compliance, audit, and remediation, task automation, OS and Firmware updates and patching, and vulnerability intelligence.

There are three key components to the BackBox Network Automation Platform include:

Automated Lifecycle Management: Quickly back up, validate, and restore network devices for easy recovery. Manage, upgrade, and patch major network vendors through a single interface with 3,000+ pre-built automations.
Compliance & Policy Management: Run compliance checks on devices to assess resilience and identify configuration drift, automatically correcting non-compliant configurations to align with industry compliance standards and internal policies.
Network Infrastructure Integrity: Proactively identify active exposures and choose to automate vulnerability mitigation via a configuration change or remediate the vulnerability by updating the device software.