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Cisco Secure Workload vs. CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Secure Workload

    Score9.1 out of 10
    N/AThe Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Tetration) platform offers holistic workload protection for multicloud data centers by enabling a zero-trust model using segmentation. This approach allows users to identify security incidents faster, contain lateral movement, and reduce the attack surface. Tetration's infrastructure-agnostic approach supports both on-premises and public cloud workloads.N/A

    CTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)

    Score8 out of 10
    N/ACTERA offered a cloud storage gateway and NAS appliance the Edge X Series. The product line has been discontinued.N/A
    Pricing
    Cisco Secure WorkloadCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Secure WorkloadCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsCisco Secure Workload software is licensed based on the number of workload equivalents or devices (endpoints) depending on the agent or sensor type being used. Telemetry data can be collected using agents, supported by other supported sensors or collectors, in any combination. Policy enforcement is enabled through agents with enforcement capability with infrastructure enforcement delivered through Cisco Secure Firewall Integration, Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs), and Security Groups in public cloud infrastructure or orchestrated via streamed Kafka policy. Workload is defined as a virtual machine, bare-metal server, or container host and includes server and desktop operating systems.—
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Secure WorkloadCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.3
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    User Testimonials
    Cisco Secure WorkloadCTERA Edge X Series (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    The biggest challenge with this product is it crosses lines. You need somebody who can support servers as well as somebody who supports the infrastructure. And that's usually two different jobs, two different job titles, two different departments. So if you have a lot of silos within your organization and you have groups that don't work particularly well together between the server team and the network team, you will have problems developing and working on this product. If your server team and your network team work well together, then you'll have a lot fewer problems, it'll work pretty well. But if your server team and your network team are like oil and water don't bother.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    This is all about the selling you a "Device" and prices vary greatly between resellers. The devices work well, but the pure cloud solutions need a lot of work.
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    Pros
    Cisco
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    Discontinued Products
    • Standard File Backup
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    Cons
    Cisco
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    Discontinued Products
    • SQL Backups just don't work reliably. For us, we lost all of our SQL data backed up through the CTERA Application process. Although the logs indicated a success, that was really not the case. This came close to putting us out of business. Luckily I had taken a genuine SQL backup to a folder. Unfortunately it was a month old. We had to pick-up the pieces from there.
    • Don't use it for file sync and share. There are better products out there i.e. anchorworks.com
    • Support sucks. Good luck with response time and answers that are inconsistent between team members. For example I had to rebuild a VM from scratch. When I re-installed the CTERA client It obviously thought I was adding another device. When I inquired to tech support, one member said "copy the old Data folder" (I still had the old VHD. That did not work). The other directed me to the correct spot to just change the associated folder. The turn-around time was over 24 hours for this simple fix.
    • Documentation, plenty of fodder but no real tech there.
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    Alternatives Considered
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    Unfortunately CTERA does not stack up well if you want a pure cloud BDR. I have use iDrive and Asigra. iDrive has similar support and SQL backup issues. Asigra can vary widely in support and price, but the software is solid.
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
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    Discontinued Products
    • NONE, it about put us out of business
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    Cisco Secure Workload Screenshots

    Screenshot of Secure Workload DashboardScreenshot of Secure Workload Policy CanvasScreenshot of Secure Workload Flow Logs and Telemetry