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The Tolly Group Announces IT
Product Certification Program
The Tolly Group announced a product certification program that will provide
IT
buyers with free access to independent product assessments designed to
streamline product purchase decisions.
The Tolly Group's Tolly Verified program certifies product features and
functionality for various classes of strategic IT products -- an apples-to-
apples method to compare products in a category. Tolly Group engineers have
classified the features, functions and performance characteristics of products
-- initially in the LAN switching, network security, IP telephony and wireless
LAN markets -- and created test methodologies to compare product
characteristics.
Equipment vendors commission The Tolly Group to validate that their
products
meet or exceed the performance of the Tolly-defined feature sets. Tolly
Verified provides the opportunity for enterprise network buyers to evaluate
products on a consistent basis. Products that successfully gain Tolly Verified
certification are listed in the Tolly Verified Online Catalog on the company's
Web site (www.tolly.com).
The Tolly Verified Online Catalog is a publicly accessible database
designed
for the user community that contains products that have successfully earned
Tolly Verified certifications. The Tolly Verified products are listed by
manufacturer name.
"IT organizations are coming under increasing pressure with budget and
manpower cuts to do more with less," said Kevin Tolly, president/CEO of The
Tolly Group. "Tolly Verified gives them a free resource to quickly, accurately
and reliably learn which products deliver the feature sets and performance
that users need. This program will help small businesses and large alike to
move ahead with confidence in product selection processes."
Products are awarded the Tolly Verified certification only after they have
successfully passed the standardized tests for the product features or
capabilities tested.
Initially, the Tolly Verified Online Catalog contains certified products
from
companies such as 3Com Corp., Cisco Systems, Inc., Dell Computer Corp.,
Enterasys Corp., Extreme Networks, Finisar Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM
Corp., Intel Corp., Proxim Corp., Riverstone Networks, Inc., Ixia, and Spirent
Communications.
"There is an opportunity here for users and IT decision makers to identify
to
The Tolly Group those products that they want to see certified in the Tolly
Verified program," said Charles Bruno, executive editor of The Tolly Group.
"We'll take those user recommendations and lobby vendors to submit products
for independent assessment. Users can either call us, or tell their vendors
they want to see the Tolly Verified logo as proof of performance, feature
sets, and functionality."
"This is the type of consumer-focused product scrutiny that the IT industry
has sorely needed," Tolly said. "We hope users will utilize the Tolly Verified
Online Catalog (
www.tolly.com/TV/TV_home.aspx) tool in the
internal
product
review process.
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