We performed a comparison between Versa FlexVNF and VMware SD-WAN on Peerspot users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Versa FlexVNF and VMware SD-WAN have received positive feedback from users regarding their features and usability. Versa FlexVNF stands out for its flexible, transparent, and granular configuration and security, while VMware SD-WAN excels in optimization, cybersecurity, and scalability. Pricing wise, Versa FlexVNF is in the mid-level range, while VMware SD-WAN is expensive. The reviews on customer service and support are mixed for both products. The ROI for both products depends on the intended use case.
"On the outside, the main differentiation is because Lookout ingest. They have ingested basically all of the apps for the last ten years and all the versions of all the apps, and we have that in a corporate database that allows us to do very large-scale machine learning and analysis on that data set. That's not something that any of the competitors really have the capability to do because they don't have access to the data set. A lot of the apps you can no longer get them because that version of the app is five or six years old, and it just doesn't exist anywhere anymore, except within our infrastructure. So, the ability to have that very rich dataset and learn from that dataset is a real differentiator."
"The solution is stable."
"The most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"The protection offered by the product is the most valuable feature. It detects vulnerabilities or traps on our users' phones and then prompts them to clean up their devices. Tools we used previously would only discover, which required us to gather information on the backend, so Lookout is a welcome upgrade."
"The most valuable features are the main steering and the firewall. The security features and SD-WAN features are also quite good."
"There are great security and ops features without the need for having a different box for security."
"The most valuable aspects of the solution are the next-generation firewall features and geo-blocking capabilities."
"The product has a dynamic VPN feature for SD-WAN."
"Their dashboard is also a good point for us and the customer. The solution is very clean and easy."
"Our customers are very satisfied with this solution. They have not mentioned any areas for improvement."
"I like all the features. We utilize different LAN, bandwidth transferring, bandwidth balancing, and mappings. We use it as a centralized solution, and use the same product at all our locations."
"Versa is a good centralized solution, where you're setting up your infrastructure in a data center type thing."
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"The most valuable features of VMware SD-WAN are the overall capabilities and ease of use."
"The cloud gateway is a very good feature for scaling purposes, etc."
"The most valuable feature is the Dynamic Multipath Optimization (DMPO), which allows the customer to maintain and monitor their link quality in real-time."
"One of the key use cases for VMware SD-WAN was assisting a customer in the industrial zone. They required virtualized servers and wanted to enable VMware SD-WAN to connect their sites in Japan or China. We assisted in building the system by integrating VMware servers and utilizing the Cisco suite."
"Feature-wise, VMware SD-WAN is a really strong cloud web security product."
"The most valuable features are the orchestration layer, plug and play capabilities, and also the fact that you can either configure it as a full mesh or hard install."
"It is fairly similar to other solutions. It has the capability for testing link connectivity, which is its unique feature from a control perspective."
"Some of the best features are the SD-WAN platform for VMware and the NSX network virtualization."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"From the analysis that we've done, they do seem to be maybe a step behind in trying to enter the market with a new solution. But when they do pick up, they do come out with some good products."
"The stability depends on the service from where you access it. Because sometimes, the place you are in, you have Gateway. You don't have Gateway. The gateway is overutilized. At the end, you need to go through their gateways. And this is the key point here. You have a tracking point. If it's not well orchestrated, and it scales up as you add more to the existing team, you will suffer"
"We just submitted an enhancement request reflecting the main area we want to see improvement in; the APIs. Currently, we're able to build dashboards, but it's somewhat backward because we use our MDM API to create them. Lookout should provide API to customers so we can query our data and use it in our cloud, and this is the only outstanding area for improvement with the product right now."
"Future releases should contain AI for the voice feature."
"Certainly, there are areas that require enhancement, and the current focus is on improvements. Presently, I believe that the emphasis should be on enhancing user interface (UI) features, particularly over end devices. The issue arises when attempting to log in to Versa from other devices, as the UI is not device-specific. Consequently, guiding someone to log in to Versa antivirus becomes challenging. Despite the absence of issues on the website, the lack of a login scope impedes graphical representation of user data or databases. Since work databases support only a limited range of features, I recommend augmenting features for end devices to address these limitations."
"The VPN feature is relatively new. It came out two releases ago, and they're still fixing that up."
"The stability of FlexVNF's controller and devices could be improved."
"The interface could be simpler."
"Another thing that should be improved in Versa are their firewall features."
"With the pandemic and changing work models, it would be ideal if the product more accessibility options or more diversity within the solution itself."
"We've had the odd occasional stability issue with software upgrades."
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"VMware SD-WAN is complicated to configure."
"They need to start focusing on the security functionality. They should find a way to embed the next-generation firewall functionality within the architecture. They should move more into applying SASE tenants to what they're doing."
"VeloCloud could improve its integration capabilities with other solutions."
"There is still room for improvement in support and security, especially in enhancing the SASE aspect of the platform."
"Can't execute commands quickly when troubleshooting. The graphic user interface is slow."
"If you don't have an Internet connection, you can’t control it."
"They need more gateways"
"The product should have on-demand tunnels instead of fixed tunnels."
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Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is ranked 8th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 20 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 4th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 50 reviews. Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is rated 8.0, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform writes "A flexible, stable and scalable solution ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Cato SASE Cloud Platform, Meraki SD-WAN and Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Cato SASE Cloud Platform and Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform. See our VMware SD-WAN vs. Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform report.
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