I concluded the Focus on Business Challenges First presentation (part of Business Aspects of Networking Technologies webinar) with a few technology guidelines starting with:

• Be vendor-agnostic (always look around to see what others are doing);
• Try to understand how the technology you’re evaluating works (it will help you spot the potential problems before they crash your network);
• Always select what’s best for your business, not for the sales quota of your friendly $vendor account manager.

For more guidelines, watch the video.