We performed a comparison between Cato Networks and VMware SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: Cato Networks is praised for its affordability, web filtering, antivirus capabilities, and always-on VPN for remote workers. They also offer centralized management and traffic acceleration for difficult countries. On the other hand, VMware SD-WAN has more advanced firewall and security features, better flexibility for customers, and improved reporting and monitoring. Customer service and support are mixed for both, but setup is rated highly for both.
"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 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 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."
"We appreciate the optimization and acceleration of the performance of SDP users."
"I haven't had any trouble, and practically forget that I'm using it."
"It's a cloud-based solution that integrates well with everything."
"The solution is stable."
"The query and the SD-WAN are useful features of the solution."
"The WAN aggregation feature is the most valuable."
"It is a stable solution...it is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it also works as a next-gen firewall because it has security features."
"When extra capacity is needed, we can get it very quickly."
"The most valuable feature of VMware SD-WAN is security. Additionally, the integration and configuration are easier to do than with other solutions, such as Cisco."
"VMware has been chosen by many of our customers who do not want to do a lot of complex routing in their environment and want a very easy-to-use solution. The most valuable features are simple troubleshooting, Dynamic Multipath Optimization (DMPO), and cybersecurity."
"The product’s most valuable feature is DMPO."
"If one circuit crashes, we are able to switch to a second circuit without any disruption in connection."
"It can be used for load balancing and load sharing. It's easy to use and customizable."
"I love the solution because of its many features like cluster and cloud VPN."
"It is very simple to configure. When you use the cloud to configure the equipment, it has zero-touch provisioning."
"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."
"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."
"Lookout was moving into the SSE space. And so their work on SecureWeb Gateway and SD-WAN is still sort of evolving."
"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"
"Cato Networks could improve their intrusion detection. There is not a lot in place."
"I am located in South Korea, and I can say that most people here have no idea about Cato Networks. I think Cato Networks should promote its network services in various countries."
"The product must evolve into the endpoint domain."
"Cato Networks security could be better."
"They should add more sophisticated security features. It should also be integrated into the cloud."
"The different languages in the user interface should be enhanced."
"The tool needs to be more granular. Its reports are not very in-depth."
"A little tweaking or improvement of the UI in terms of logging when troubleshooting would be an improvement because it's very detailed."
"Technical support is in need of improvement."
"VMware SD-WAN could be improved with more automation and more integration, but each vendor could use these improvements."
"The firewall can be more advanced."
"The cost of VeloCloud could be lowered."
"There is no security included, which is something that should be improved."
"They need more gateways"
"VMware SD-WAN could improve by having more partnerships with other vendors."
"Reporting is an area that can be improved, as there are some features that are lacking with the reporting aspect."
Cato SASE Cloud Platform is ranked 5th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 21 reviews while VMware SD-WAN is ranked 4th in Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) Solutions with 50 reviews. Cato SASE Cloud Platform is rated 8.8, while VMware SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cato SASE Cloud Platform writes "Useful remote worker VPN, centralized management, and simple on-boarding process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware SD-WAN writes "To fully utilize cloud vendors' hardware networking, Microsoft and VMware support everything". Cato SASE Cloud Platform is most compared with Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange, Cisco SD-WAN, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet FortiGate and Perimeter 81, whereas VMware SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN, Versa Unified Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) Platform and Aruba EdgeConnect SD-WAN Platform. See our Cato SASE Cloud Platform vs. VMware SD-WAN report.
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