We performed a comparison between VMware SD-WAN and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution is stable."
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
"There are 400 functionalities of the system."
"When we upgrade to one of the edges, it goes very smoothly."
"It is fairly similar to other solutions. It has the capability for testing link connectivity, which is its unique feature from a control perspective."
"Some of the best features are the SD-WAN platform for VMware and the NSX network virtualization."
"The cloud gateway is a very good feature for scaling purposes, etc."
"The initial configuration and deployment are quite easy."
"The biggest feature is called D.M.P.O., or Dynamic Multipath Optimization, which is one of the technologies that they use to deliver or ensure data integrity."
"Initially, we had a scattered environment, but VMware SD-WAN helped us achieve centralization, which was beneficial."
"It is easy to use."
"I like the web filtering capabilities."
"Users get direct secure access to applications over the internet."
"The scalability is pretty good."
"The most valuable features of Zscaler Private Access are its ability to integrate with multiple IDPs and application segmentation."
"SASE's most valuable features are proxy and content filtering."
"It is a stable solution."
"The best feature is the ability to establish the connection between your public network and automatically connect to the intranet connection."
"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"VMware SD-WAN doesn't have the best built-in firewall."
"Technical support is in need of improvement."
"Reports could be simplified."
"The solution needs improvement on security features and should include two firewalls. Cloud VPN can’t support any link. The solution needs to also improve the availability of centralized internal management. It needs to have debug detection and Deep Packet Detection features as well. The documentation for VMware is also hard to find."
"Implementing VMware is much more difficult, time-consuming, and expensive than implementing Fortinet or Check Point."
"They need to start focusing on the security functionality. They should find a way to embed the next-generation firewall functionality within the architecture. They should move more into applying SASE tenants to what they're doing."
"The firewall can be more advanced."
"I would like to improve the tool’s cloud security features. I would like to see high-throughput hardware requests in the product’s next release. The solution should also support multiple gigs which could be around ten."
"Users report application access or latency issues with Zscaler Private Access."
"SCMP support would be one of the biggest improvements in my opinion. More speed improvements are also required."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of configuration."
"It would be better if the Zscaler Private Access team made it easier for people to find subscriptions on the portal, mainly information on what my customers subscribed to or the type of licenses purchased."
"We would like to extend the SASE applications for Zscaler."
"There is improvement in enhancing proper manageability, policies, and logs. So, log management could be improved."
"The interface needs a bit of work."
"We'd like to have two-factor authentication that is quite simple."
VMware SD-WAN is ranked 7th in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 51 reviews while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is ranked 3rd in Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) with 34 reviews. VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2, while Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of VMware SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange writes "Allows for strict access control, granting access to specific applications at a URL level rather than at the physical IP level". VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Prisma SD-WAN, whereas Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange is most compared with Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Axis Security, Cloudflare Access and Perimeter 81. See our VMware SD-WAN vs. Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange report.
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