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"The core business of Cisco Umbrella is non-malware. That's all it does: block the malware on the gateway."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is its reliability."
"Using this solution has meant that we've needed to make fewer firewall changes."
"The most valuable feature is that it secures our network against blacklisted or malicious websites."
"The most valuable features are the protection against ransomware and phishing."
"It will protect, give you more robustness, and faster responses, compared to any firewalls or any of the proxy web servers."
"The most valuable feature for us is the DNS-based protection."
"It analyzes the domain security helps us implement the securest policy."
"The most valuable feature is that it also works as a next-gen firewall because it has security features."
"The feature that I find to be the most valuable is the bandwidth aggregation."
"It's a cloud-based solution that integrates well with everything."
"The WAN aggregation feature is the most valuable."
"It's a pretty straightforward solution."
"The most valuable feature for one of our customers is the ability to stage cloud workloads from the local network."
"The most valuable feature is the Dynamic Multipath Optimization (DMPO), which allows the customer to maintain and monitor their link quality in real-time."
"Proactively detects where problems might arise."
"The most valuable feature is load balancing."
"They make use of a combination of different internet lines, which improves quality."
"The most valuable feature is the dynamic multipath optimization."
"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."
"They have a lot of built-ins. There are so many applications defined inside the solution. It makes it so that we don't have to create some policies. Each and every application is already defined in it."
Cons
"The solution's technical support is not very good."
"Security, overall, can always be improved."
"I would like to see DLP integration in the next release of this solution."
"Support for multiple domains is important to us."
"I would like to see a graphical representation of the entire network."
"It would be useful if they had a malware protection engine running inside their own VM."
"This solution does not give us full, 360-degree protection."
"I would like to see integration with SecurNX in the future."
"They should add more sophisticated security features. It should also be integrated into the cloud."
"They can't do one-to-one NAT (Network Address Translation) in AP (their access point), and that is something that Palo Alto can do."
"I would like to see better integration with identity providers."
"Its functionality is a bit limited in some areas as compared to a Cisco solution. It is not as granular. It doesn't have the manageability, feature set, and capabilities of a larger or an enterprise-level solution. It just needs a more robust feature set and granularity."
"The price could be better."
"Technical support is in need of improvement."
"VeloCloud needs improvement in terms of its security features."
"Reports could be simplified."
"The cost of VeloCloud could be lowered."
"There is room for improvement with respect to security."
"There is no security included, which is something that should be improved."
"They need more gateways"
"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."
"There is a one-time cost of approximately $800 USD per user, and then a yearly support fee of about $50 per user."
"Our costs were negotiated, and they are okay."
"Our licensing fees are on a yearly basis."
"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."
"Cisco has a model called ELA. With ELA, if you buy the solution you will have the complete security portfolio and you can pay it yearly or after three years, it depends on the contract."
"I am not sure, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but I think it's $1.00 or so per device/month."
"Cisco uses subscription models for the pricing and there are three subscription plans."
"The licensing part for Umbrella is really flexible."
"The price is not an issue for us, as it is priced more competitively than some other vendors."
"If you compare with VeloCloud, the price is the same or even cheaper."
"You pay yearly based on the speed of your network. If you increase the speed of your network, you increase the cost for your throughput. It is by bandwidth for the most part and then licenses for VPN. There is some per-seat licensing for VPN access, but the majority of it is minimal. It is like $30 a year per client. The rest is based on how much bandwidth you'll use. You pay for that upfront for the year, and if you have to increase it, you increase it, and then they let you send more data through. There are no additional costs in addition to the standard licensing fees."
"Cato Networks seems more expensive than Cisco Meraki."
"VeloCloud performs as well as the Cisco SD-WAN but it is cheaper in price."
"The price of this solution is higher than that of other SD-WAN vendors."
"The price of this solution should be lower."
"The pricing is very comparable to Fortinet."
"The price is reasonable for this solution, but the only challenge for us is that the Rand currency fluctuates to the dollar and provides some complexities. The price might go up just because the Rand has actually lost value."
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Top Answer: The most valuable feature is that it also works as a next-gen firewall because it has security features.
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OpenDNS
VeloCloud
OpenDNS provides easy-to-implement Internet navigation and Web security solutions for families, schools, governmental organizations and businesses of all sizes. The services provided by OpenDNS increase the speed of navigating websites and prevent unintended access to phishing and malware sites as well as to any Web content that you configure to be restricted.
Cato connects your branch locations, physical and cloud datacenters, and mobile users into a secure and optimized global network in the cloud.
One Network, protected by One Security stack and enforcing One Policy.
The Cato Cloud Network is built on a globally distributed network of Points of Presence (PoPs). The PoPs are interconnected with an encrypted and optimized multi-carrier private backbone to ensure optimal global traffic routing. The Cato Cloud Network provides an affordable, SLA-backed, global enterprise network backbone.
Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) is the application of softwarebased network technologies that virtualize WAN connections to provide agility,
performance and reliability for network traffic between remote and branch offices to
data centers and the cloud.
SD-WAN leverages cloud-hosting to simplify deployment and management of
network devices and employs traffic steering to applications in the data center and
the cloud. It combines the bandwidth of broadband with existing WAN connections to
more efficiently and cost-effectively connect users to data center and cloud-based
applications from any location in the network.
SD-WAN optimizes traffic over multiple available connections (MPLS, broadband,
LTE) to deliver traffic across the network, delivering a better user experience to any
location. SD-WAN will dynamically steer traffic to the best available link, and if the
available links show any transmission issues, it will immediately apply remediation for
jitter and packet loss based on policies to ensure performance of the high-priority
applications.
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Financial Services Firm17%
Consumer Goods Company10%
Comms Service Provider10%
Educational Organization7%
Comms Service Provider30%
Computer Software Company25%
Financial Services Firm5%
Government5%
Comms Service Provider28%
Computer Software Company26%
Manufacturing Company7%
Financial Services Firm5%
Comms Service Provider60%
Financial Services Firm20%
Transportation Company10%
Manufacturing Company10%
Comms Service Provider30%
Computer Software Company25%
Retailer5%
Manufacturing Company5%
Small Business33%
Midsize Enterprise29%
Large Enterprise38%
Small Business11%
Midsize Enterprise25%
Large Enterprise63%
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Small Business41%
Midsize Enterprise6%
Large Enterprise53%
Small Business21%
Midsize Enterprise7%
Large Enterprise71%
Find out what your peers are saying about Cato Networks vs. VMware SD-WAN and other solutions. Updated: January 2021.
465,623 professionals have used our research since 2012.
Cato Networks is ranked 7th in SD-WAN with 5 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 3rd in SD-WAN with 15 reviews. Cato Networks is rated 8.8, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cato Networks writes "Easy to deploy, easy to manage, and helpful for network stability and reliability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SD-WAN writes "Scalable, has DMPO to ensure data integrity, good technical support, and zero-touch set up". Cato Networks is most compared with Zscaler SASE, Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks and Aryaka SmartServices, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Versa FlexVNF and Peplink SpeedFusion. See our Cato Networks vs. VMware SD-WAN report.
See our list of best SD-WAN vendors, best WAN Edge vendors, and best Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) vendors.
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