Oracle SD-WAN (Talari) vs. Riverbed SteelHead

Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)

Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)

2 Reviews and Ratings

Riverbed SteelHead

Riverbed SteelHead

18 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	The vendor states that Oracle SD-WAN was created to solve the ongoing IT challenges network managers face every day—from expensive, sluggish, inflexible WANs to difficulties deploying new office WAN links and accessing cloud services. With Oracle SD-WAN, enterprises can benefit from internet economics, leverage high-bandwidth and inexpensive Internet connections, and safely migrate applications to the public cloud and SaaS at their own pace. The technology is based on Oracle's 2018 acquisition…	N/A
Riverbed SteelHead	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	San Francisco based Riverbed Technology offers Steelhead, a WAN optimization solution, which includes the SteelHead CX/GX delivering optimization for Hybrid WANs, accelerating the performance of applications to improve productivity and reduce costs, and SteelHead SD combining SD-WAN and WAN Optimization, providing a single, unified orchestration and connectivity fabric across the entire distributed enterprise network with embedded security, optimization, and visibility.	N/A

Pricing

Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)

Riverbed SteelHead

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Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)	Riverbed SteelHead
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Community Pulse
	Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)	Riverbed SteelHead
Top Pros	Pro Low cost Pro Maintenance windows Pro Reliable platform	Pro Microsoft exchange Pro Remote sites Pro Gives insight
Top Cons	Minus Dynamic routing Minus Overly complex Minus Routing protocols	Minus Traffic analysis Minus Dashboard capabilities

Best Alternatives
	Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)	Riverbed SteelHead
Small Businesses	No answers on this topic	No answers on this topic
Medium-sized Companies	Cisco Meraki MX Score 9.1 out of 10	Cisco Routers Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises	Cisco Meraki MX Score 9.1 out of 10	Cisco Routers Score 8.7 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)	Riverbed SteelHead
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (2 ratings)	10.0 (6 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)	Riverbed SteelHead
Likelihood to Recommend	Oracle Product has been around for a long time and the stability and features are excellent. Now that Oracle owns it, its long-term viability is both improved (given Oracle isn't going anywhere anytime soon), but all the layers of bureaucracy and auditing that Oracle is famous for comes along with it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Riverbed Technology If you are dealing with large CAD files on a daily basis "remotely", Riverbed Steelhead makes your home office feel just like the office Incentivized KW Kevin Walgren Technology Lead Read full review
Pros	Oracle Failsafe- ability to aggregate low cost link and increase enterprise WAN bandwidth and also provide safe failor over in case of link interruption, with almost zero drops. In a lab test for voice it works perfectly for voice. Config Change without system interruption (change config and apply it during Maintenance windows). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Riverbed Technology Effectively improves data throughput over VPN WAN connections. Seamless operation. Optimizes a variety of applications. Including, HTTPS, Citrix, Netapp SM and SV, Exchange, etc. Incentivized Tim Slater Manager, Corporate Services and Information Systems Read full review
Cons	Oracle Talari Aware management solution very complex to set up useful dashboards Management interface seems overly complex (7.3), though this was supposedly improved in 9.0 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Riverbed Technology A reduction in price is always welcomed Simplify and streamline advanced features and add-on pieces for more detailed traffic analysis Getting granularity into traffic behavior becomes confusing and very expensive Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	Oracle So far so good. I have no problems with support; they were able to deliver a good service to us every time we needed it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Riverbed Technology No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Oracle While I haven't looked at Silverpeak in a long time and haven't used any of the other big players, this product is a dedicated SD-WAN solution, so no need to get a combination device, unless that's important. We will likely implement SD-WAN through our next firewall platform refresh as a backup to Talari. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Riverbed Technology We tested Cisco eleven years ago in parallel with Riverbed in a PoC. The Cisco configuration was very complex and sticky based on the location. The Riverbed configuration is flexible based on the whole storage. A software client for devices like laptops or tablets is not available for Cisco WAAS, therefore we selected Riverbed based on a PoC. Incentivized Ralf Richter Senior Solution Architect Read full review
Return on Investment	Oracle lowes oue WAN links Cost Lower our Tshoot time /remote office Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Riverbed Technology Files now open a lot quicker, at near local speeds. We are able to respond to customers quicker as we can get access quicker. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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