We compared VMware NSX and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation based on our users' reviews in six categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: After comparing VMware NSX and Akamai Guardicore Segmentation, it is evident that VMware NSX offers comprehensive and superior virtualized network software with advanced features such as virtual switch control, micro-segmentation, and distributed firewall. Conversely, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is praised for its simplicity in setup, flexibility in creating network security zones, and strong customer support.
"Initially, I liked the telemetry part. But later, we used the microsegmentation features that we were able to deploy and found that they really stood out from other vendors. It allows us to see microsegmentation as distributed services."
"The real bonus is the fact that we can secure applications, all the way down to the individual services, on each host. It's actually more granular security than we can get out of a traditional firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the visibility of processes and connections."
"Guardicore Centra offers the best coverage specifically in backward compatibility with legacy operating systems."
"From day one, you get threat intelligence. It will immediately block active threats, which has been useful."
"We like the centralized management of the firewalls. Until we installed Guardicore Centra, we managed all our firewalls individually, so making changes was complicated, difficult, and time-consuming."
"The tool's most valuable feature is its visibility."
"The tool is a complete package that offers many features like visibility. You can get a graph with real-time workflows and visibility into server-to-server communication. We get visibility into many things happening within our environment."
"I am impressed with the tool's protection."
"This solution comes with an API that can easily integrate with other solutions."
"From a distributed firewall perspective, it's a solid solution."
"To be able to do the DR and SRM migrations from datacenter to datacenter, we're able to do them with SRM with VXLAN, with the NSX product."
"Over the last two years, they've enhanced a lot, especially in regard to integration with OpenStack."
"The migration methods are the most valuable aspect of this solution."
"It's a beneficial tool."
"The stability is great. That's one of the things that we can quantify and leverage through NSX, because it's less complex. We have the availability to manage multiple things at the same time. You can identify problems before they manifest."
"The maps could go a bit faster. They are useful but slightly slow."
"They can maybe improve their customer service just because they are kind of a small organization, and customer service isn't as big as others such as VMware."
"Kubernetes is not installed in the way we need it."
"Incident tagging could be improved. Other vendors offer semi-automatic tagging, which Guardicore doesn't yet have."
"Clients would like to see that the security policies of GuardiCore can continue to be comparable to all the major firewall players out there."
"The long-term management of the security policies could be improved with some kind of automation platform, something like Chef or Puppet or Ansible, to help you manage the policies after day-one... to then manage the policies and changes to those policies, going forward, through some type of automation process is not turning out to be really easy."
"It would be very helpful for beginners if the solution had more windows to help with the terms inside instead of going to the documentation."
"In our version, when using the terminal server, we cannot exclude user tasks for each session."
"I think that one of the more important things to see better integrated into the NSX product would be an IDS/IPS type solution."
"I would like them to make integration with other vendors easier."
"Quite a complex solution."
"There are always issues integrating with Cisco."
"They have some limitations in the firewall features as compared to the on-prem or dedicated hardware appliance. They can add more features, such as IPS and IDS, to the cloud firewall."
"The technical support could use some improvement."
"There could be an improvement in regards to security."
"Their licensing model should make it easier to purchase licenses."
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Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is ranked 3rd in Cloud and Data Center Security with 17 reviews while VMware NSX is ranked 1st in Cloud and Data Center Security with 93 reviews. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is rated 8.2, while VMware NSX is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation writes "Allowed us to build out a data center topology without worrying about placement of physical or virtual firewalls that can create bottlenecks". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware NSX writes "Works well and allows us to do micro-segmentation and create policy rules". Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is most compared with Illumio, Cisco Secure Workload, Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security and Trend Micro Deep Security, whereas VMware NSX is most compared with Nutanix Flow Network Security, Cisco ACI, Illumio, Cisco Secure Workload and Cisco DNA Center. See our Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs. VMware NSX report.
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