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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/AF5 Distributed Cloud WAF leverages F5's Advanced WAF technology, delivering WAF-as-a-Service and combining signature- and behavior-based protection for web applications. It acts as an intermediate proxy to inspect application requests and responses to block and mitigate a broad spectrum of risks stemming from the OW ASP Top 10, persistent and coordinated threat campaigns, bots, and layer 7 DoS.N/A

    Hitachi Enterprise Cloud

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AHitachi Vantara offers the Hitachi Enterprise Cloud, an infrastructure-as-a-service platform. Hitachi provides a full portfolio of integrated hardware, software and enablement services designed to bring a pre-engineered level of efficiency and predictability to creating a cloud platform.N/A
    Pricing
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Hitachi Enterprise Cloud
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Hitachi Enterprise Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Hitachi Enterprise Cloud
    Considered Both Products
    F5
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    Hitachi Vantara
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    178 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    158 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    174 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    129 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    95%
    Implementation went as expected
    142 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Hitachi Enterprise Cloud
    Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
    Comparison of Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) features of F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall) and Hitachi Enterprise Cloud
    Feature
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)
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    Ratings
    Hitachi Enterprise Cloud
    8.5
    1 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Service-level Agreement (SLA) uptime00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Dynamic scaling00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Elastic load balancing00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Pre-configured templates00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Monitoring tools00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Pre-defined machine images00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Operating system support00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
    Security controls00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
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    F5 Big-IP Advanced WAF
    Score9.4 out of 10
    IBM Cloud Bare Metal Servers
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    Score9.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Hitachi Enterprise Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (180 ratings)
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.7
    (11 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.1
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.6
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    F5 Distributed Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall)Hitachi Enterprise Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    F5
    It is doing its job effectively, and its scalability is superb. So, if you have a mixed environment with cloud and on-premise systems to protect this product, provide a solution to the challenge. However, its management is more suited to DevOps teams rather than to the ones responsible for on-premise systems, making the management a bit more complex.
    Incentivized
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    Hitachi Vantara
    1) If you are gathering lots of data from many different points and transforming that data into something customized, and you need it secure yet accessible, this is a great option. 2) If you are looking for a platform and not just a service provider, this would be a great option. As a platform, there is a one-stop-shop feeling that gets you some better customer service and performance. But it also locks you into one provider, so don’t jump in if you feel like you’ll want a lot of flexibility. 3) Building or running VMware is really what this platform is all about. If you’re creating an app drawing from some complex data/sources, it’s an easier go with this tool than most others.
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    Pros
    F5
    • Layer seven attacks are becoming far more common. Traditionally it was always layered three, layer four, where you get an additional firewall, but with the application layer attacks become more frequent, more popular, et cetera. So having the web application firewall protecting us, and then with the recent Log4j, that's the most recent use case when it gave us that instant level of protection whilst we remediated the Log4j that we had that and the F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was protecting us.
    • I have a great relationship with the account manager, my account manager, and I think he drives the best price possible, um, for me, and I'm happy with that price.
    • F5 Distributed Cloud WAF is always innovating and evolving.
    • We run a very competitive proof value where we run numerous competitors against each other, and then we evaluate from that and then make the selection, and F5 Distributed Cloud WAF was the winner.
    Incentivized
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • It fills a niche that was needed before we as a company fully embraced the cloud with Azure. It was a great introduction to the cloud and there are some features I wish were more readily available with some of our Azure tools. Staying on top of your expenses is much harder without the transparency Hitachi provides.
    • It allows the small team managing it to simplify cloud operations using prebuilt computing and storage templates. Very easy to monitor, manage and optimize cloud operations.
    • Pre-Engineered, turnkey solutions with prebuilt services make it quick and easy to select the service needed for each app. With many different suppliers, we cater to many different connectors.
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    Cons
    F5
    • Lack of warnings, currently the console does not provide a warning when deleting key-value entry.
    • The web GUI could use some tweaking, currently no undo option when removing exclusion rules.
    • Configuration complexity, currently menus and options are hidden, making it hard to configure vs on prem.
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • Their ability to offer a public cloud solution that feels like a private cloud solution is a great feature, but not one that is easily understood outside of someone using the tool. I think they need more training and marketing around what they can do for cloud-native development.
    • I think they are lacking a solution to play in other playgrounds easily. Many of their offerings are better than what Azure provides, so I think there is room for them to leverage Azure size with customized, personalized features.
    • They really need something big to set them apart from the larger players in this space. I think of Snowflake with their amazing pricing model and the “oops!” button that undoes serious accidental deletes. Something like that would grow the user base and make it a major player.
    Incentivized
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    Likelihood to Renew
    F5
    We gave it an 8 because it protects our web apps well and is reliable. The WAF is flexible and meets most of our needs. It could improve in user interface and make integrations easier, but overall, it’s a solid and effective security tool for us.
    Incentivized
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    Hitachi Vantara
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    F5
    I believe is a solution that was designed from the start to be simple and easy to use. Coming from Imperva, it simply eased the burden and complexity of managing and securing our apps on different environments (cloud and on-prem). It easy to scale and very quick to deploy (as a cloud waf should be), provide us with DevOps integrations, visibility and automatic insights from multiple events that guarantee peace of mind for us analysts and opp managers.
    Incentivized
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    Hitachi Vantara
    No answers on this topic
    Reliability and Availability
    F5
    Seems no issue
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    Hitachi Vantara
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    F5
    Unnoticed slowness
    Incentivized
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    Hitachi Vantara
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    F5
    I never contacted support for this product.
    Incentivized
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    Hitachi Vantara
    No answers on this topic
    Online Training
    F5
    Online training saves me lots of time
    Incentivized
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    Hitachi Vantara
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    F5
    Just make sure you origin servers have F5 IPs allowed.
    Incentivized
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    Hitachi Vantara
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    F5
    The other one that I've used in the past, they're very similar and I haven't used it recently, so I can't do a side-by-side comparison today. But I can say that F5 does everything we want it to do consistent with what this other product did do and it's got enhanced features and of course we have a long history with F5 as a product set in general.
    Incentivized
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    Hitachi Vantara
    Hitachi Enterprise Cloud is a pleasant surprise, offering better management and control of your cloud containers and VMware. It is a platform and contains all you need to get going, so there is great appeal in smaller companies and isolated divisions/departments in larger companies. If I were managing a small group with a specific endpoint I would no doubt choose a solution like this, but being a large corporation we tend to drive towards larger solutions with internal competencies to support those larger roll-outs.
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    Scalability
    F5
    Dont see any issue so far
    Incentivized
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    Hitachi Vantara
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    F5
    • The biggest gain for us was speed. Before F5 Distributed Cloud WAF, onboarding a new app to our WAF stack meant manual rule tuning, traffic sampling and regression testing. Right now, we spin up a service, tag it with the right policy and its ready (production ready) within hours
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    Hitachi Vantara
    • The positive pricing aspect has been with the rate card and compute pricing transparency, being better able to manage the budget.
    • It is a small solution for us, so we are probably not realizing the potential savings we could get by rolling all our corporate cloud work into a single solution, but it is also good to keep multiple irons in the fire, so to speak.
    • The implementation has done very well in a small, controlled atmosphere. So while the ROI may not have been as high as we’d like to see, the success of the project has made it valuable none the less.
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