We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Steelhead based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two WAN Edge solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."They have a very responsive customer service and support team."
"Its central management, especially when it comes to distributed environments, is great. I can generate and save a setting and then apply that setting across the network with just one click."
"Ability to manage multiple firewalls."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"It provides a lot of functionality adhering to the current trends."
"Barracuda is very prompt at blocking any new spam which comes out."
"The ability to be deployed and supported remotely is valuable."
"Most people are using enterprise applications remotely, and there is no license for SSL VPN, or in other words point-to-site. There is no limit on that. On other devices there is a specific limit and you have to pay per use for SSL VPN."
"One of our most valuable features is Steelhead's cloud migration optimization. Moving to the cloud helped optimize our workflow, improving performance for end-users."
"The connectivity to speed is the valuable feature."
"SteelHead works from the application. I use it to optimize traffic from Amazon. It is mainly used for customers who need to increase the traffic to 33K. For other users, it has been more of an operation."
"I find the most valuable to be the compression and exchange replication."
"The compression of Riverbed is very powerful. It can also handle large quantities of traffic."
"It is very easy to install the solution."
"Steelhead is stable, and it can even help you avoid service interruption in the event of a power outage. If your hardware fails, technical support will replace your device quickly."
"TCP optimization... caches a particular TCP connection and the next time a user uses that connection he will reach the destination easily."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"The interface should be more user-friendly and it should be easier to configure."
"Technical support used to be at a very high level but it is now a bit less so."
"Barracuda CloudGen Firewall should work a little bit more with the logs so that, in our company, we can generate a little bit more reports and get a bit more statistics, which would be fine for us."
"Sometimes we have a need for detailed reports. Barracuda NG Firewall does not have a reports module and uses a satellite application."
"The technical manuals, at times, have images that don't match the actual screens and are not always as clear as they could be on the configuration."
"They have a very complicated interface. It's very hard to learn."
"The features are a bit limited compared to other vendors."
"They should include a network switch in a future release."
"The application response time of the solution can be improved."
"The product needs improvement in its integration with SDN."
"Steelhead's handling of encrypted traffic could be improved because it requires some complex configuration to optimize encrypted traffic, especially when working with Microsoft protocols for mail servers and VPN services"
"I would like to see improvement in the solution’s configuration and protocol aspects. We have got some configurations that are not set. I would also like to simplify the call detection of some protocols."
"The product should offer more integration capabilities."
"One area for improvement is related to monitoring and visibility."
"Application response time and network performance could be improved."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 13th in WAN Edge with 35 reviews while Steelhead is ranked 15th in WAN Edge with 23 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Steelhead is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Steelhead writes "Exceptionally stable and reliable but costly". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense and Azure Firewall, whereas Steelhead is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform, Citrix SD-WAN, WAAS and Noction IRP. See our Barracuda CloudGen Firewall vs. Steelhead report.
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