Network Management Strategies for the CIO
2004Product categories
by: Editors of SearchNetworking.com
The editors of SearchNetworking.com sat down recently to assess the 2004 crop of products, with an eye toward helping you choose the products you should include on your "A" list for evaluation.
Given tight budgets, small staffs and ever-increasing user needs, we decided to evaluate the products based on the following criteria:
- Innovation
- Performance
- Ease of integration into environment
- Ease of use and manageability
- Functionality
- Value
- Service and support
And so we solicited nominations from vendors, scoured the market for products to nominate ourselves, and recruited a panel of judges. That panel included independent industry experts, networking professionals, and SearchNetworking.com editors. They reviewed a total of 122 products in six major categories. The results are presented here.
You'll see products that are completely innovative. You'll see products that strike a chord with small and midsized businesses, or products geared toward the largest of enterprises. None are perfect for all network installations, but we think you'll agree that they all have valuable attributes. And when matched to the right task in the right environment, each product advances the state of the art in computer networking.