Sr Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
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2022-12-25T08:37:00Z
Dec 25, 2022
The price is steep, but I don't know what we would've paid for the VMware solution. Meraki is a little cheaper, but Cisco is costly because of the hardware and all the licensing that goes with it. We didn't just adopt SD-WAN. We also purchased GlobalProtect and Palo Alto firewalls, so we got a package discount by buying multiple devices from the same vendor. In addition to the physical SD-WAN appliance, you need to buy the security license that provides encryption.
IT Communications engineer at a construction company with 10,001+ employees
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2022-09-20T16:46:00Z
Sep 20, 2022
If you're already invested in a Palo Alto product, it would be logical to use this solution. If not, there might be some other solutions that are more viable in terms of pricing.
The solution is expensive. Its competitor, Zscaler, is far less expensive. It's half the price. I haven't however, tried it to compare them. It's sort of like iPhone versus Android. They are both phones, yes, however, I don't care about the money, I care about the product. I'll choose an iPhone even if it is more expensive due to the fact that I love the experience I get from Apple. The same is true with Prisma. It's not cheap, however, I really appreciate the service they offer. There are different ways they can deliver their services, and these have different costs associated. There's Prisma Access, Prisma SaaS, and Prisma Cloud.
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The price is steep, but I don't know what we would've paid for the VMware solution. Meraki is a little cheaper, but Cisco is costly because of the hardware and all the licensing that goes with it. We didn't just adopt SD-WAN. We also purchased GlobalProtect and Palo Alto firewalls, so we got a package discount by buying multiple devices from the same vendor. In addition to the physical SD-WAN appliance, you need to buy the security license that provides encryption.
If you're already invested in a Palo Alto product, it would be logical to use this solution. If not, there might be some other solutions that are more viable in terms of pricing.
The solution is expensive. Its competitor, Zscaler, is far less expensive. It's half the price. I haven't however, tried it to compare them. It's sort of like iPhone versus Android. They are both phones, yes, however, I don't care about the money, I care about the product. I'll choose an iPhone even if it is more expensive due to the fact that I love the experience I get from Apple. The same is true with Prisma. It's not cheap, however, I really appreciate the service they offer. There are different ways they can deliver their services, and these have different costs associated. There's Prisma Access, Prisma SaaS, and Prisma Cloud.
This solution stood out because it cost considerably less than the other SD-WAN solutions out there from Cisco.