eWEEK last week announced the winners of its eighth annual Excellence Awards program.

Winners were chosen in each of 12 categories, spanning the IT universe.

On the day we announced the winners, June 9, we also set up an online poll asking people to vote for the winning product they thought would have the biggest positive impact on the enterprise in the future. Voting closed June 11. We knew we were comparing apples and oranges to a great extent, and we also knew that online polls aren't exactly scientific. But we were interested to see how the community would vote.

The product picked by the majority of the voters was CommVault's Simpana 7.0, which, according to the eWEEK editor who evaluated this category, provides companies of any size with all the makings for a full-fledged enterprise storage system: backup, recovery, replication, archiving, search and retrieval.

The people (who happened to vote in this particular poll) have spoken: Congratulations, CommVault.