We performed a comparison between Cato Networks and VMware SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Cato Networks is praised for its affordability, web filtering, antivirus capabilities, and always-on VPN for remote workers. They also offer centralized management and traffic acceleration for difficult countries. On the other hand, VMware SD-WAN has more advanced firewall and security features, better flexibility for customers, and improved reporting and monitoring. Customer service and support are mixed for both, but setup is rated highly for both.
"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."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it also works as a next-gen firewall because it has security features."
"The scalability is quite good."
"It is quite simple and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Cato Networks is the CASB and the documentation is useful."
"The most valuable features of Cato Networks are the always-on VPN for remote workers and centralized management. Additionally, web filtering and antivirus are good."
"What I found most helpful in Cato Networks is that it works out of the box. One of its main advantages is that it's a simple product to deploy. You subscribe, and you're ready to run."
"The solution is stable."
"It's a cloud-based solution that integrates well with everything."
"One of the key use cases for VMware SD-WAN was assisting a customer in the industrial zone. They required virtualized servers and wanted to enable VMware SD-WAN to connect their sites in Japan or China. We assisted in building the system by integrating VMware servers and utilizing the Cisco suite."
"I love the solution because of its many features like cluster and cloud VPN."
"Feature-wise, VMware SD-WAN is a really strong cloud web security product."
"This solution is as stable as most firewalls. VMware is a reputable vendor."
"The most valuable feature is the dynamic multipath optimization."
"The most valuable feature for one of our customers is the ability to stage cloud workloads from the local network."
"VMware is the only SD-WAN solution that integrates with Azure Virtual WAN."
"I would absolutely recommend VeloCloud because it's user-friendly and because the integration is easier than with other solutions."
"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"
"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."
"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."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"The solution is not cheap."
"We would like the product to continue to improve its security."
"They should include a web application firewall feature in the solution."
"The different languages in the user interface should be enhanced."
"There's no principal in Malaysia, only a distributor."
"The product may be complex for users with few years of experience."
"Cato Networks could improve their intrusion detection. There is not a lot in place."
"Modifying or incorporating Cato Network to work with a third-party platform, such as Microsoft, or other Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings would be beneficial. Having more integration partners would help the users implement the solution."
"If you don't have an Internet connection, you can’t control it."
"Some of the service providers that use VeloCloud as their SD-WAN should be enabled to have better global visibility."
"Its integration with the security systems would be a nice implementation. They can also consider using a management platform for both network and security operations. This would be a great improvement."
"The product should have on-demand tunnels instead of fixed tunnels."
"The prep time and understanding what you want to do and how much bandwidth you'll need and how you're going to configure it on the network, that's more of an issue than anything else."
"The solution doesn't offer failover between their own devices. If I want to, I should be able to put the two devices at the side, so there can be a failover."
"It needs better security."
"In an upcoming release, the solution can be more functional and have additional features."
Cato SASE Cloud Platform is ranked 5th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 21 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 4th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 51 reviews. Cato SASE Cloud Platform is rated 8.8, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cato SASE Cloud Platform writes "Useful remote worker VPN, centralized management, and simple on-boarding process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". Cato SASE Cloud Platform is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cisco SD-WAN, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet FortiGate and Cisco Umbrella, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform and Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform. See our Cato SASE Cloud Platform vs. VMware SD-WAN report.
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