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We performed a comparison between NETSCOUT vSTREAM and Versa Director based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."

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"One of the valuable features is the packet decoding.""vSTREAM gives us better visibility and reporting about our network infrastructure, allowing for cost-optimization."

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"The most valuable feature of Versa Director is analytics.""The most valuable functionality is some of the policy pieces that are quite useful.""Versa Director is the fastest engineering tool and is ideal for use without product management.""Versa Director's best feature is the ease of configuration and customer and vendor management."

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Cons
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."

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"I would like for it to have a smaller footprint of the virtual appliance and better performance.""Room for improvement exists in filtering in the packet decode.""I would like to see improvements made to the user guide."

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"Versa Director's deployment process is not the best.""What needs improvement in Versa Director is maturity because, from an operating point of view, it's not mature enough. You'll still need to do a lot of research on Versa Director, so if it could mature faster, that would be very good.""It requires some simplification.""Versa could be more AI-oriented."

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  • "Having to buy separate licenses for the on-prem SD-WAN hardware and SSL VPN software makes Versa Director very costly compared to other solutions like Fortinet and Cisco."
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    Top Answer:We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points.
    Top Answer:The product is not expensive. I rate the product’s pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.
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    Top Answer:The most valuable feature of Versa Director is analytics.
    Top Answer:What needs improvement in Versa Director is maturity because, from an operating point of view, it's not mature enough… more »
    Top Answer:We're using Versa Director to manage our SD-WAN boxes.
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    Overview

    Juniper Mist Premium Analytics is a comprehensive network analytics solution that provides organizations with valuable insights into their network performance and user experience. The primary use case of this product is to enable IT teams to proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize their network infrastructure.

    The most valuable functionality of Juniper Mist Premium Analytics is its AI-driven insights and recommendations. Leveraging machine learning algorithms, it analyzes vast amounts of network data to identify anomalies, predict potential issues, and suggest remediation actions. This proactive approach helps organizations minimize network downtime, improve user experience, and optimize network performance.

    By providing real-time visibility into network performance, Juniper Mist Premium Analytics helps organizations quickly identify and resolve network issues. It offers detailed analytics on network traffic, application performance, and user behavior, allowing IT teams to pinpoint the root cause of problems and take immediate action. This not only reduces troubleshooting time but also enhances overall network reliability.

    Furthermore, Juniper Mist Premium Analytics enables organizations to optimize their network infrastructure. It provides insights into network capacity utilization, application usage patterns, and user behavior, allowing IT teams to make informed decisions about network design, resource allocation, and capacity planning. This helps organizations to ensure that their network is efficiently utilized and can support the growing demands of their users.

    The vSTREAM virtual appliance complements existing Adaptive Session Intelligence (ASI)-based instrumentation to provide the same level of visibility within virtualized and cloud infrastructures that is already possible in physical environments. The vSTREAM virtual appliance is ideal for monitoring service-critical traffic running within virtualized or cloud infrastructures, either locally on a host or as an aggregation point for multiple hosts. With complete visibility across physical, virtual and cloud networks, the vSTREAM virtual appliance presents real-time views of end-to-end call trace data and network-wide KPIs, to protect the reliability and availability of networks and application services.

    Versa Director is Versa Networks’ virtualization and service creation platform that simplifies the creation, automation and delivery of services using Versa WAN edge software, FlexVNF. Versa Director provides the essential management, monitoring and orchestration capabilities needed to deliver Versa’s Secure Cloud IP architecture network and security software services. Services supported by Versa include routing and advanced connectivity to direct traffic across multilink WAN access and simplify control for SD-WAN with embedded advanced security

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    Metropolitan Police Agency, Banpara, PropertyRoom.com
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    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company18%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government8%
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    Financial Services Firm16%
    Government15%
    Computer Software Company8%
    Retailer7%
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    Computer Software Company23%
    Financial Services Firm17%
    Comms Service Provider8%
    Retailer7%
    Company Size
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise15%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    Small Business15%
    Midsize Enterprise25%
    Large Enterprise60%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business26%
    Midsize Enterprise11%
    Large Enterprise63%
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    NETSCOUT vSTREAM is ranked 72nd in Network Monitoring Software while Versa Director is ranked 58th in Network Monitoring Software with 4 reviews. NETSCOUT vSTREAM is rated 8.0, while Versa Director is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of NETSCOUT vSTREAM writes "Troubleshooting at the packet level helps us resolve issues more quickly". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Versa Director writes "User-friendly and simpler than its competitors". NETSCOUT vSTREAM is most compared with vRealize Network Insight, Azure Network Watcher, NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG, Arista Data ANalyZer and NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, whereas Versa Director is most compared with ThousandEyes, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and PRTG Network Monitor.

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