Network Management Strategies for the CIO
2007Product categories
SearchNetworking.com recently embarked on a quest to find the best products in the networking industry and enlisted their readers in the cause. The 2007 Product Leadership Awards were selected by networking professionals themselves, based on their assessment of the products they currently deploy.
The editors at SearchNetworking.com used a survey-based system to discover what products readers are using and how they feel about those products. The questions asked depended on the specific product and its important functions. The editors compiled the results to come up with the best products that are actually being used to keep today's networks running efficiently, reliably and safely.
More than 1400 SearchNetworking.com readers were polled to produce results. Respondents were asked to select the products they currently use in 12 categories and to evaluate them according to product-specific criteria. Each criterion was assigned a weighed value based on importance, and cumulative scores were calculated for each product. SearchNetworking.com editors used these scores to award Gold, Silver and Bronze medals to the industry's best products in 12 categories.