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.
"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 solution is stable."
"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 most valuable features are the antivirus as a whole, the anti-malware, and all of the protection features that scan our enterprise devices."
"The product has a dynamic VPN feature for SD-WAN."
"The division of Control Plane and Data Plane is most valuable. It can be deployed anywhere, and you can control it and configure it from anywhere. This is one of the good features of this solution."
"Their dashboard is also a good point for us and the customer. The solution is very clean and easy."
"It's very powerful, especially for engineering teams."
"Our organization finds the application routing features extremely useful."
"Overall, it's nice and very user friendly. That's what makes it so successful. They give you complicated features but with a very simple user interface, and that's been a big success for them."
"The necessary enhancement pertains to the controller segment, specifically addressing the issue of frequent flapping when a link is left. In the case of Versa Unified, if a link experiences frequent flapping within an entire branch, it triggers instability. Hence, it is imperative that the overall routing system is not contingent solely upon the active dial branches."
"The granularity when it comes to configuration and security features are valuable."
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"Has an optimization feature that acts to ensure the quality of the services running on the overlay to be most valuable."
"If one circuit crashes, we are able to switch to a second circuit without any disruption in connection."
"Proactively detects where problems might arise."
"The product’s most valuable feature is DMPO."
"When we upgrade to one of the edges, it goes very smoothly."
"Some of the best features are the SD-WAN platform for VMware and the NSX network virtualization."
"It is very simple to configure. When you use the cloud to configure the equipment, it has zero-touch provisioning."
"VMware is the only SD-WAN solution that integrates with Azure Virtual WAN."
"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."
"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"
"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."
"We've had the odd occasional stability issue with software upgrades."
"We are thinking about how to make customers consolidate the loads to an SD-WAN network so that the customers can have bigger chunk from the SD-WAN side so that customers can have critical data be transferred with NPS VPN and non-critical data or some labeled traffic can be transferred by the SD-WAN network. I think it's a very important direction for digital transformation."
"The security should be improved."
"The UTM features can be improved. It should offer better functionality."
"With the pandemic and changing work models, it would be ideal if the product more accessibility options or more diversity within the solution itself."
"The support needs to be improved."
"Future releases should contain AI for the voice feature."
"The interface could be simpler."
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"There is room for improvement with respect to security."
"In the future, we would like to have more capacity using this solution as there are limitations on the VCE. For example, only 50 tunnels can be supported currently but we would like to have 200 tunnels using the VeloCloud VCE device."
"The solution needs improvement on security features and should include two firewalls. Cloud VPN can’t support any link. The solution needs to also improve the availability of centralized internal management. It needs to have debug detection and Deep Packet Detection features as well. The documentation for VMware is also hard to find."
"I would like to improve the tool’s cloud security features. I would like to see high-throughput hardware requests in the product’s next release. The solution should also support multiple gigs which could be around ten."
"The solution is pricey. It could be cheaper."
"There is still room for improvement in support and security, especially in enhancing the SASE aspect of the platform."
"The security of the firewall should be improved. It would be a good idea to have a standalone product with better security."
"The cost of VeloCloud could be lowered."
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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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