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We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Workload and Nutanix Flow Network Security based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Microsegmentation Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Cisco Secure Workload vs. Nutanix Flow Network Security Report (Updated: March 2024).
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Pros
"The solution offers 100% telemetry coverage. The telemetry you collect is not sampled, it's not intermittent. It's complete. You see everything in it, including full visibility of all activities on your endpoints and in your network.""The most valuable feature is micro-segmentation, which is the most important with respect to visibility.""The most valuable feature of the solution is that we don't have to do packet captures on the network.""Secure Workload's best feature is that it's an end-to-end offering from Cisco.""By using Tetration insight, we are able to get the latency on our level accounts and we can determine whatever the issue is with the application latency itself.""A complete and powerful micro-segmentation solution.""The product provides multiple-device integration.""The most valuable feature of this solution is security."

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"We appreciate the fact that this solution allows us to segregate two virtual machines that are in the same cluster.""Nutanix Flow Network Security is a simple solution that is usable, easy to understand, and easy to deploy.""It is a very stable solution. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.""Nutanix Flow is straightforward to install. You only need to select a checkmark that you want to enable Nutanix Flow.""The network view was excellent as it allowed us to expand the server view and visualize all connections it made within the environment. This was particularly useful in identifying the path of our data and not just its location within the data center.""It allows for policies that enable complete visibility and traffic control.""Flow Network Security's most valuable features are user-friendliness, the console, and policy creation.""Nutanix Flow has a lot of data protection features. It's also valuable for operations and management. It's a big solution that works well with different solutions and is suitable for most business cases."

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Cons
"Secure Workload is a little complicated to use, and the dashboard isn't intuitive, so it takes a while to learn how to use it.""The interface is really helpful for technical people, but it is not user-friendly.""It is not so easy to use and configure. It needs a bunch of further resources to work, which is mainly the biggest downside of it. The deployment is huge.""The integration could be better, especially with different types of solutions.""They should scale down the hardware a bit. The initial hardware investment is two million dollars so it's a price point problem. The issue with the price comes from the fact that you have to have it with enormous storage and enormous computes.""There was a controversy when Cisco reduced the amount of data they kept, and the solution became quite cost-intensive, which made its adoption challenging….Although they have modified it now, I preferred the previous version, and I wish all the functionality were back under the same product.""I'd like to see better documentation for advanced features. The documentation is fairly basic. I would also like to see better integration with other applications.""The multi-tenancy, redundancy, backup and restore functionalities, as well as the monitoring aspects of the solution, need improvement. The solution offers virtually no enterprise-grade possibility for monitoring."

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"Nutanix Flow's networking features could use some improvement. Also, I don't know if it's currently supporting load balancing or not.""The solution’s pricing could be improved.""We would like the reporting functionality of this solution to be improved.""The most difficult part is the configuration of the initial blueprints.""I would rate Flow Network Security's stability seven out of ten - it could be improved.""For customers who are running Nutanix Flow and AHV, the largest area for improvement is in the disaster recovery environments. To automate the populate of rules from one side to the other side in case of disaster you report everything on the disaster recovery site, and you have all the rules automatically applied. This was something that was being built when I left Nutanix. It might already be available. Additionally, the usability of the rules editor could improve.""While the graphical interface of Nutanix Flow Network Security could have been improved, and some of the reporting features needed extra work, the product's features were similar to VMware's NSX. The difference lay more in the presentation and user interface.""The documentation offered by the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "The pricing is a bit higher than we anticipated."
  • "The price is outrageous. If you have money to throw at the product, then do it."
  • "Pricing depends on the scope of the application and the features. Larger installations save more."
  • "It is not cheap and pricing may limit scalability."
  • "The price is based on how many computers you're going to install it on."
  • "The cost for the hardware is around 300k."
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  • "This model is very accessible to implement."
  • "There is an annual subscription to use this solution. There is a 60-day trial to use the solution, it gives you time to decide if you want to continue using the solution."
  • "Flow Network Security is available on a three-year license, with annual renewals of the maintenance fee."
  • "In comparison to other options available in the market, I would rate their pricing as very competitive, probably a two or three out of ten for cost."
  • "On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."
  • "The product is available for free use."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:The product provides multiple-device integration.
    Top Answer:The product must be integrated with the cloud.
    Top Answer:Nutanix Flow Network Security is a simple solution that is usable, easy to understand, and easy to deploy.
    Top Answer:We pay a yearly licensing fee for Nutanix Flow Network Security. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten.
    Top Answer:The solution’s pricing could be improved.
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    Cisco Tetration
    Nutanix Flow Microsegmentation
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    Overview

    Cisco Secure Workload is a cloud and data security solution that offers a zero-trust policy of keeping an organization’s application workloads safe and secure throughout the entire on-premise and cloud data center ecosystems.

    Cisco Secure Workload will consistently provide protection by discovering workload process anomalies, stopping threats immediately, minimizing the risk threat surface, and aborting any lateral movement.

    Today’s ecosystems are very elastic, and in the application-focused dynamic of today’s aggressive marketplace, Cisco Secure Workload delivers a robust security solution that works effectively with today’s most popular applications. The solution uniquely surrounds each and every workload to ensure organizations are able to keep their data, network, and applications safe and secure at all times. Cisco Secure Workload ensures that enterprise organizations can maintain secure applications by consistently building firewalls around every workload level throughout the entire ecosystem. The solution can manage applications that are deployed on containers, virtual machines, or bare-metal servers.

    Cisco Secure workload is able to meet an organization's busy needs and offers flexible options such as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-premises options. Using the Secure Workload SaaS options, users receive all the benefits of Cisco Secure Workload protection without the hassle of having to deploy and maintain the platform on premises. Users are responsible for acquiring the necessary software licensing and deploying software agents. Using SaaS, Secure Workload runs in the cloud and is operated and maintained by Cisco. This option offers the ability to scale easily and is a popular choice for SaaS-first and SaaS-only clients. Many organizations find they get the best TCO and achieve the best productivity and profitability using the SaaS options.

    When choosing on-premises options, organizations choose between hardware-based appliance models (large or small form factors). Platform selection is dependent on scalability goals, the desired fidelity level of flow telemetry, and the actual number of workloads. When a user chooses to configure Cisco Secure Workload for a conversation-only flow telemetry for all workloads, each platform has the capability to scale up vertically twice the default platform scale. Additionally, with Secure Workload, it is possible for the platform to be scaled horizontally in order to satisfy the demands of extra large widely distributed enterprise environments using federation capabilities.

    Cisco Secure Workload also provides a robust disaster recovery (DR) tool, which helps to make it a complete, comprehensive solution. The DR allows for continuous restore and backup capabilities that enable users to quickly remediate operations and data to a standby cluster in the event of a drastic failure or disaster.

    Reviews from Real Users

    The solution offers 100% telemetry coverage. The telemetry you collect is not sampled, it's not intermittent. It's complete. You see everything in it, including full visibility of all activities on your endpoints and in your network. Other valuable features include vast support for annotations, flexible user applications, machine learning, automatic classification, and hierarchical policies.” - CTO at a tech vendor

    Flow Network Security is a stateful, distributed, microsegmentation firewall. It is provided as part of NCI Ultimate or as part of the optional Security Add-On package for NCI Pro.
    Sample Customers
    ADP, University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC)
    JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, Volkswagen SAIC, Brighton and Hove City Council, Foresters Financial, Janus International Group, Cloud Comrade, Serco
    Top Industries
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    Comms Service Provider44%
    Media Company11%
    Energy/Utilities Company11%
    Computer Software Company11%
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    Computer Software Company28%
    Financial Services Firm13%
    Government6%
    Insurance Company5%
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    Computer Software Company23%
    Government11%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Manufacturing Company6%
    Company Size
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    Small Business29%
    Midsize Enterprise21%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise69%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise50%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business21%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise61%
    Buyer's Guide
    Cisco Secure Workload vs. Nutanix Flow Network Security
    March 2024
    Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco Secure Workload vs. Nutanix Flow Network Security and other solutions. Updated: March 2024.
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    Cisco Secure Workload is ranked 5th in Microsegmentation Software with 13 reviews while Nutanix Flow Network Security is ranked 4th in Microsegmentation Software with 8 reviews. Cisco Secure Workload is rated 8.4, while Nutanix Flow Network Security is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Workload writes "A solution that provides good technical support but its high cost makes it challenging for users to adopt it". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nutanix Flow Network Security writes "Offers great integration capabilities and helps design a disaster recovery plan". Cisco Secure Workload is most compared with Illumio, VMware NSX, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and Cisco Secure Endpoint, whereas Nutanix Flow Network Security is most compared with VMware NSX, Meraki SD-WAN, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Illumio. See our Cisco Secure Workload vs. Nutanix Flow Network Security report.

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