"The compression of Riverbed is very powerful. It can also handle large quantities of traffic."
"I find the most valuable to be the compression and exchange replication."
"It is very easy to install the solution."
"It is very easy to deploy. The GUI interface is really good, and the security features are also very good. It is also stable and scalable, and their support is also good."
"The most valuable features are the main steering and the firewall. The security features and SD-WAN features are also quite good."
"Their dashboard is also a good point for us and the customer. The solution is very clean and easy."
"The solution is stable and suitable."
"There are great security and ops features without the need for having a different box for security."
"The flexibility is a great feature."
"It's very powerful, especially for engineering teams."
"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."
"The product should offer more integration capabilities."
"If we load a primary firewall, the secondary firewall usually handles all the active connections, but in Riverbed, this isn't the case. We lose all the active connections at the moment of failure."
"They should include a network switch in a future release."
"Another thing that should be improved in Versa are their firewall features."
"SASE is the next big thing that is coming up, and it needs to be developed in Versa. This is the only thing that needs to be adapted very quickly by Versa. With the pandemic going on, I would like to see more features for working from home. They have launched Versa Secure Access (VSA), but it is currently immature. They need to tighten it up for work from home and SD-WAN concept."
"Future releases should contain AI for the voice feature."
"The interface could be simpler."
"I heard about them for the first time just before I started working on Versa. They do have blogs for information, but they could publicize more about the documentation and architecture. It doesn't seem to have that much exposure, and they should work on their customer base more."
"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 security should be improved."
"The stability of FlexVNF's controller and devices could be improved."
Steelhead is ranked 15th in WAN Edge with 3 reviews while Versa FlexVNF is ranked 7th in WAN Edge with 8 reviews. Steelhead is rated 8.0, while Versa FlexVNF is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Steelhead writes "Powerful compression and application optimization". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Versa FlexVNF writes "Very user-friendly and nimble software platform solution". Steelhead is most compared with WAAS, Citrix SD-WAN, Cisco SD-WAN, SteelConnect and Silver Peak VX, whereas Versa FlexVNF is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Fortinet FortiGate, Meraki SD-WAN and Netskope CASB. See our Steelhead vs. Versa FlexVNF report.
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