We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and VMware SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."If an employee tries to get or move a file that is not permitted to them - for example if he wants to copy it to a USB - he will not have the right to do that, because Barracuda manages who has the right to copy, and what you copy to a USB. The USB is encrypted with a specific code from Barracuda and will only be decrypted into any other laptop in the company if they allow it to see it."
"Single sign-on is also good. If you are accessing your corporate firewall from your home, during that time there is integration with AD. You can use your AD password to access your SSL VPN. It's not like if you buy an additional SSL VPN... You can directly integrate with your AD. If you change your password on the AD side, your client-to-VPN password also gets changed. You can integrate all your passwords from a single console. It's not like admin has to change your password, it's a single sign-on."
"Live monitoring of what is happening inside and on the interfaces, either ingress or egress."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"Their GPS possibilities and the security that it has, especially the SD-WAN functionality, is very good."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"The most valuable features are the orchestration layer, plug and play capabilities, and also the fact that you can either configure it as a full mesh or hard install."
"SD-WAN is cloud-based and you can manage multiple sites within one single pane of glass."
"This solution is as stable as most firewalls. VMware is a reputable vendor."
"Feature-wise, VMware SD-WAN is a really strong cloud web security product."
"VMware SD-WAN is scalable."
"It is very simple to configure. When you use the cloud to configure the equipment, it has zero-touch provisioning."
"Proactively detects where problems might arise."
"If one circuit crashes, we are able to switch to a second circuit without any disruption in connection."
"It would be better if they had a trace and trap feature. It's hard for me to say anything bad about Barracuda. This is because we had a firewall go down in the town of Kirkland Lake, and it was a blown-out port, and they had an instant replacement."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"The analytics are weak."
"I would like to see a more user-friendly dashboard and an easier interface."
"To start working with spam, it takes a while because the product has to see that multiple emails are coming in with all the spam. If it could reduce that amount of time, then we would reduce the amount of users who are receiving spam."
"The biggest issue that I have with this solution is that it is not super intuitive. Once you know what to do, things make sense, but you can't just open the program and start doing things. It would be great if there was a little bit more guided usage inside the program."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"The product should have on-demand tunnels instead of fixed tunnels."
"There is room for improvement with respect to security."
"VeloCloud needs improvement in terms of its security features."
"VMware SD-WAN doesn't have the best built-in firewall."
"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."
"VMware SD-WAN could improve by having more partnerships with other vendors."
"In an upcoming release, the solution can be more functional and have additional features."
"There might be potential enhancements in better integration with other platforms, increased stability, and heightened security."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 10th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 35 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 4th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 50 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Azure Firewall, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. VMware SD-WAN report.
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