Compare Cisco Elastic Services Controller vs. VMware NSX
Cisco Elastic Services Controller is ranked 8th in Network Virtualization while VMware NSX is ranked 1st in Network Virtualization with 19 reviews. Cisco Elastic Services Controller is rated 0, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Enables us to identify problems before they manifest, but they should develop more advanced features". Cisco Elastic Services Controller is most compared with Cisco ACI, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Cisco ACI, Cisco Tetration and Nutanix Flow.
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Information Not Available | We can't go without NSX, so it's invaluable from this perspective. The solution is very expensive. We haven't had to hire a dedicated network engineer because NSX handles 90 percent of it. The reduced overhead in terms of managing networks has been the biggest plus. We have saved man-hours and decreased our security exposure. |
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Views 46 Comparisons 31 Reviews 0 Average Words per Review 0 Avg. Rating N/A | Views 23,819 Comparisons 15,072 Reviews 19 Average Words per Review 357 Avg. Rating 8.1 |
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| Cisco ESC | VMware Nicira |
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Business success is increasingly dictated by agility: the ability to respond quickly to change, bring new services to market quickly, and do all of this within an environment that is simple and inexpensive to operate. The Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC) promotes agility, flexibility, and programmability in network functions virtualization (NFV) environments and offers comprehensive automated lifecycle management capabilities. By design, Cisco ESC is built as an open and modular system. It provides a single point of control to manage all aspects of NFV lifecycle for virtual network functions (VNFs) in a dynamic environment. Drawing on industry standards and open APIs, you can control the full lifecycle of all of your virtualized resources, whether using Cisco or third-party VNFs, allowing you to choose best-in-class industry solutions. | VMware NSX is the network virtualization platform for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). By bringing the operational model of a virtual machine to your data center network, you can transform the economics of network and security operations. NSX lets you treat your physical network as a pool of transport capacity, with network and security services attached to VMs with a policy-driven approach. |
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Information Not Available | City of Avondale, Lumeta, Kroll Ontrack, Heartland Payment Systems, Baystate Heallth, Exostar, Tribune Media, iGATE, NTT Communications, Synergent, California Natural Resources Agency, Bloomington Public Schools, Columbia Sportswear, Join Experience S.A, Schuberg Philis |
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No Data Available | Retailer25% Manufacturing Company17% Government17% Comms Service Provider17% Software R&D Company37% Comms Service Provider20% Retailer5% Media Company4% |
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No Data Available | Small Business20% Midsize Enterprise18% Large Enterprise62% Small Business23% Midsize Enterprise19% Large Enterprise58% |
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