Sophos UTM Scalability

AH
Owner / Network Security Engineer at Texarkana IT

The Sophos UTM and XG lines are highly scalable. It's the same OS and security across all modules. The scalability is based on the size of the hardware.  If you have a small network, then you go with an SG 115 or something. If you have a network of up to around 50 people, then you bump that up to a 210. If you have a couple of hundred people, you bump it up to a 310. To scale up, you increase the hardware for higher throughput and such.

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MG
Asst General Manager(C&IT) at NMDC Ltd

No scalability issues.

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SherifFouad - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Manager at a mining and metals company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The scalability is the same as support and the initial setup. The scalability depends on the person who is doing the initial design. If I choose a device that will serve 10 users and my users jump to 50, then I definitely have a big problem. If I choose a firewall that has 30 GBs of throughput, and all of a sudden I jump to 50 GBs throughput, it's my problem because I didn't do the initial design properly. It's not a problem with the device.

If you do a proper design, assume growth, and buy a model or brand that can digest that growth, then it's scalable. Sophos can handle more requests and requirements than what is in the data sheet.

I would rate the scalability as nine out of ten.

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Sophos UTM
March 2024
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Fathi Kharfi - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Network & Technical Support at Tadhamon International Islamic Bank

The product can scale well.

We have about 500 users on the solution. We don't have plans to increase usage at this time. 

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NAGESWARARAO KORUKONDA - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager IT at KMV Group

We have about 1,000 users on the solution at this time. The solution is very scalable. I'd rate it nine out of ten. 

We use the solution quite extensively. 

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Mohammed_Sajid - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Network Administrator at abl

The solution is very easy to scale up and has no limitations. 

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ML
Network and infrastructure manager at Sonysugar

We use the solution daily in our organization.

I rate the solution ten out of ten for scalability.

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JN
Technical Services Lead at Telenet Solutions

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a five out of ten.

With Sophos UTM, I have noticed that you cannot upgrade the physical devices, meaning you cannot change the memory or the hardware. If you want an upgrade, then you have to go to select the next model or a bigger model offered by Sophos.

One of my company's clients uses the tool in an environment consisting of 20 people, while another client uses the tool in an environment consisting of 20,000 people.

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NA
Head of Operations at Intersect Technologies

Scalability-wise, I rate this solution a ten out of ten. If I talk about the solution's suitability, then it is suitable for enterprises.

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MM
Senior Network Engineer at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

It is easy to scale. You can set up a failover with a second Sophos device, where the second one is available as a backup. You have the option to set up Sophos Lite, which is a small device from Sophos that can link with your main unit.

For example, if you have remote offices, you can have the main Sophos device in your main office, and then all the branch offices connected using the lite model. All of the traffic goes to your main site, and it will provide all the web filtering.

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AH
Head of IT

Sophos UTM is scalable.

The endpoint will be decommissioned next year, but we intend to continue using the Sophos XDR.

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RR
Head of Data Link at Telecom Egypt

I feel that the hardware itself needs to be improved. We have about 50 users. 

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NK
IT Manager at Cartlis

This solution is perfect for small businesses. 

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sugoi - PeerSpot reviewer
Server analyst at EJCLME Inc.

The solution scales pretty well. Even with a heavy load, the solution shows no issues. 

Scalability is rated an eight out of ten. 

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Rana Chaudhury - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at KARLE INFRA PRIVATE LIMITED

We have over 200 users in my company. We are planning on increasing the usage. We never faced any issue with scalability. 

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YA
Network and Security Engineer at ONB

We have approximately more than 1,000 employees in my company using the solution.

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AH
Owner / Network Security Engineer at Texarkana IT

I have Sophos UTM deployed for all my IT clients. There are 40 of them in the field serving about 500 users total.

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AP
Manager IT and Security at Health Street

It seems very scalable. All you do is install the client, and it pulls it in. You don't have to actually have more Sophos servers running. It all goes back to their central, cloud-based platform, which is nice.

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TG
It manager at MMA2

Sophos UTM is scalable.

I rate the scalability of Sophos UTM an eight out of ten.

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BS
IT Administrator at Vegol

The solution scales well. 

We have about 500 people on the product right now. We also have 100 users on the VPN.

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Hassan Moussafir - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Security Senior Expert at Wafaassurance

The scalability is great. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so. It's not a problem.

We currently have 800 people using the solution.

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WY
IT Engineer at Wise Communication

The solution is scalable although we generally work with smaller organizations. 

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Saurabh Bhansali - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT at Venus Jewel

Sophos UTM is scalable.

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JD
IT Manager at Manual Workers Union

The scalability is quite good.

Right now, we have 40 users.

We will definitely scale in the future. As we get new employees, we just request additional licenses.

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Dana Bailes - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

We've been using the same hardware for five years and it's always had a very good performance. I would say it scales pretty well. We have around 80 users on the solution currently. We've had double that. Actually, until COVID hit, we did have double that, as of a year ago.

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ZE
Pre-sales manager at National Information Technology Company

Sophos UTM has different aspects. If you have an HA distribution, high availability, you can scale up.

When you go and purchase Sophos UTM, you have to plan and say what the environment is. This planning has to be done before buying. If you buy a small appliance and after two years, you are 50 or 70 employees there are upgrade options. 

It should be between you and Sophos. They can give you a free appliance if you subscribe for three years on subscription, for example.

If you have an existing subscription and you want to have HA, this means another device has to be set as redundant. The only downside is that it has to be the same version and the same model. 

In my company, we have around 35 loyal customers. These customers have purchased and are redeeming Sophos UTM with us. Altogether, we are 55 employees. Most of them are at the office. Concurrently around 35 others are on site at other clients. We have around 35 servers. 

We have the published Sophos UTM on the main server, help desk, share point, etc. We've got around nine published services, plus 10 VPNs running concurrently for our support engineers to connect and work on our internal infrastructure for the allotment servers. 

We have 50 Sophos UTM installations at least that are actively browsing, downloading, and being protected by the web filter and other features there.

It depends on the organization, but for us we only require one person to manage this solution, even working remotely at home.

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AM
IT Head at Dee Development

The solution is scalable; we jumped from 135 to 230 users without any problems at all. 

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it_user215397 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO, Technologist with 51-200 employees

As stated, unit needs to be scaled to the environment. So if I don’t do my job of understanding the client's environment, it is possible to undersize the unit just like every other product. For clients who are planning major growth, we tend to sell either a virtualized UTM or software base unit. Then it is simply a matter of adding license capacity, RAM, CPU, etc. when needed.

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HS
IT Technician at Wm tech

I rate the scalability of Sophos UTM a ten out of ten.

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NO
CEO at Tomans Consulting

The scalability of Sophos UTM is seamless if you have the right UTM device. However, for every device there are limitations, we have 150 users on it at this time.

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FS
Director of Cloud Technology at Avalere Health\Inovalon

I have not run into a scalability issue since it is scalable past my license.

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ES
IT Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees

We are actually in the process of discussing scaling with a client. We're working on the business planning aspect right now. We're looking at opportunities on how to protect their network, besides just the webserver and the email servers.

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it_user701457 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Architect at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The platform scales-out in a great way, if your deployment is basic and you do not exceed the capabilities of the current SUM. Several companies run large UTM connected networks with hundreds of site across multiple countries.

The platform scales up admirably in the format of the large tin deployments such as the SG550 or SG650 models. They are ably to handles massive throughput rates on the firewall modules but the Proxy and WAF modules cap out at a 10 000+ users or devices depending on the traffic, of course.

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WA
Management Board Member and Network Engineer at NewLogics

The software solution is not very scalable. So, it can be improved. 

We have about 50 customers right now using this solution. 

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CA
System Analyst at Abbey Mortgage Bank

Sophos UTM is quite scalable.

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it_user805347 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Engineer

You should never come across a scalability issue if you follow Sophos’ sizing guidelines. Finding this information can actually be difficult. Also, Sophos does not make it clear what they mean by “users” when you are sizing a firewall, which then leads to undersized implementations.

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HP
Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

It is a scalable product. So it is easy to scale it up.

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FS
Account Executive at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The solution is very scalable and easily expands. 

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FR
Occupational safety technician at Concremat

We have about 3,000 users on the product right now. We do have plans to increase usage in the future.

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SI
General manager at DotCom, Lda.

Sophos UTM is scalable.

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DI
CEO at NG

The scalability is also fine. Currently, we have 20 employees using the product to date and only one employee needed to maintain the product. At the moment we don't have any plans to increase usage in the company. Not now, next year maybe.

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MA
Data Department Manager at BTC Networks

No issues encountered.

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SR
Architecture and DevOps at hc1.com

It works for what we have, as we only need a couple of them. Scalability-wise, we don't need a whole lot. 

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it_user701427 - PeerSpot reviewer
Snr Dev Ops Engineer at a tech services company

Adding new servers was seamless. Adding new users and allowing for VPN access was also fantastic.

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RobertMaalouf - PeerSpot reviewer
Network and Security Specialist at Tetracom S.A.L

Sophos UTM is scalable. We have around 100 users, including engineers, managers, and computer scientists. We plan to increase our usage in the future. 

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PN
Director with 11-50 employees

The scalability on offer is quite good. If a company needs to expand, it can do so. 

We are not a big company. We have about 70 or so people. 

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JK
Technical Manager at Digital World

It is a scalable solution but the only disadvantage is that when we use a proxy, we can bypass Sophos.

We have 50 customers. The maximum number of users in one device is approximately 4,000. It's a large network.

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it_user163662 - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Yes. Sophos UTM on AWS is not an scalable product. Sophos is actively working on scalability part from using a UTM manager which can control configuration deployment on multiple UTM's

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Osama Tobji - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Technology Officer at AcenTek

I haven't had the need to scale up Sophos UTM so far, but I believe it's scalable.

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JS
CEO & Co-Founder at Advisor Consulting Group

The scalability is awesome as when you need the network protection systems to grow immediately, you just activate and license the exact same box, and configure it in cluster mode for Active-Active mode in Cluster/High Availability.

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JX
CIO at Quartesian, LLC

We are a small company with a small infrastructure. For our infrastructure, it is perfectly solid. I don't have experience using it on a larger scale.

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Wisnu Nursahid - PeerSpot reviewer
General Manager of Technical Division at VTI

Sophos UTM is quite simple to scale.

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AR
Digital Transformation and Technological Innovation Manager at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

We don't really have scalability in mind right now. I need proof of all that. It's a single device that we have.

We don't plan on increasing usage with this device. In fact, we're considering a switch to Sophos XG.

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IS
CTO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The Sophos UTM solution is very scalable. You can build a hardware cluster with up to 10 nodes. 

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it_user291504 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer II at a legal firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

The UTM 220 has served our purposes very well, it has allowed us to scale up on the computing side as well as the server side with no issues at all.

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BB
Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have only done basic High Availability setup which is very good but not Scalable solutions. However, as long as you follow the sizing guides and get the right UTM for the company there has been no issues.

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Faruk Ahmed - PeerSpot reviewer
Support Engineer at Ensure Support Services Limited

Sophos UTM is easy to scale.

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RT
Software Sales Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I find Sophos UTM scalable and it is one of the reasons I like it.

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DW
Solutions Architect at National Renewable Energy Laboratory

We are running about a couple hundred EC2 instances. Overall, the AWS Marketplace product should be a better fit, but it is a little pricier.

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MP
DevOps at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

My throughput is moderate versus high throughput applications.

I am always holding a predefined number of instances, so I haven't had any issues.

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it_user695352 - PeerSpot reviewer
Business Owner at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

No problems with scalability.

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EA
President at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees

The scalability has worked great for us. Everyone in our company uses it even though some may not know that they're using it. One of our larger clients, with a super computing center and some of the fastest computers in the world, use Sophos, so I would say that it does the job.  

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it_user297396 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Expert for Microsoft infrastructure at a computer software company with 51-200 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user243894 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at Base-2 ICT Services Ltd

No issues encountered.

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it_user233997 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT/Telecom Specialist at Prewest

No issues yet.

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MA
Senior Network Engineer at Dejpaad

It is very scalable. The solution is very easy to expand as needed. That's not a problem.

We have 500 or 600 clients on the solution. 

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MC
Senior Solutions Specialist at centerprise international

We are not a very big organization, so we do not see any issues going into the future. We feel that it will continue to scale appropriately for our organization's needs.

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it_user693984 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Not applicable. 

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it_user413994 - PeerSpot reviewer
Quality Officer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

No, I use the solution in a VMware environment with Intel Network interface cards.

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VM
Assistant Manager IT Zircon Technology at Zircon Techonolgy

The solution is relatively scalable, we have over 500 users in our company and use three people for maintenance. 

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MS
Senior IT Specialist at Shabana Group

Scaling this solution works fine.

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ML
IT SM & Security Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

No, everything works perfectly.

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AP
Global Network Security Admin at a consumer goods company with 201-500 employees

Since it is cloud-based, scalability works great. We have around 300 users in our environment.

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TI
Senior Network Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

UTM is scalable.

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JM
Cyber Security Officer at Grupo Vision

Scalability is not a complex issue and is something you can do within 20 minutes. I've been managing three UTMs, one with 50 users, another one with around 150, and the biggest one has 3,000 users.

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ML
It Forum Gruppen A/S

Scaling out cannot be easier, as there are many migration paths.

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it_user410073 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Support Engineer at a religious institution with 51-200 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user472113 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systemadministrator at MCON Group GmbH

The Sophos UTM Internal DB sometimes has problems which affect its scalability.

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it_user230352 - PeerSpot reviewer
Support Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Sophos has a sizing guide which is a great during the planning phase in ensuring you are getting the sizing right. I have used it many times when I preparing customer demands. I haven't had any problems yet.

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EB
Senior IT Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
GC
Science Technician at a government with 201-500 employees

The solution is not scalable. In my organization, we have approximately 500 employees using it.

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MN
IT Security Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The scalability is not something I have experience with because our organization is pretty lean.

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ME
Senior System Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 51-200 employees

We have around 400 users. 

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it_user241089 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Security & Audit Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

No issues encountered.

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it_user801675 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a government with 11-50 employees

Our current use of the product doesn't need any scaling out.

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it_user700155 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network & System Engineer at a tech services company

No, correct sizing will fit.

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JC
Security Architect at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability is good for us. We are only a company of about 400, so it is perfect.

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Buyer's Guide
Sophos UTM
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Sophos UTM. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.