Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN vs. Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN
Score 8.2 out of 10
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Prisma SD-WAN (formerly known as CloudGenix but now as Prisma from Palo Alto Networks since being acquired in April 2020) offers an Autonomous SD-WAN solution, designed to provide app-policies aligned to business intent, along with direct access to multi-cloud and dev-ops frameworks to deliver unparalleled productivity gains, and cost-savings compared to first generation SD-WAN alternatives.N/A
Silver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Silver Peak's WAN Optimization brand and appliances were discontinued after the company's acquisition in 2020 by HPE. Similar capabilities are supplied now under HPE's Aruba brand.N/A
Pricing
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
Cisco Meraki MX
Cisco Meraki MX
Score 9.0 out of 10
Cisco Routers
Cisco Routers
Score 9.2 out of 10
Enterprises
Cisco Meraki MX
Cisco Meraki MX
Score 9.0 out of 10
Cisco Routers
Cisco Routers
Score 9.2 out of 10
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User Ratings
Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WANSilver Peak WAN Optimization (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(3 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Support Rating
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Palo Alto Networks
CloudGenix would be suited for any company that has an internet connection if you have multiple sites you could use this to help with network traffic and what should take precedence over other applications. If you didn't have various sites, you could go with another type of internet connection.CloudGenix may not be suited for that scenario.
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This is well suited when you need to deploy a virtual router to provide SD-WAN services across multiple sites. This works great for small businesses since they added firewall services. The price and feature set are also great for mid-sized enterprises due to the ability to manage multiple appliances with templates, central reporting, and ability to provide high availability of the appliances with VRRP.
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Pros
Palo Alto Networks
  • Circuit Monitoring
  • QOS of network traffic
  • High Availability
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  • WAN Acceleration.
  • Improves application performance.
  • Reduce bandwidth costs.
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Cons
Palo Alto Networks
  • Some warning messages are hard to pinpoint the actual issue.
  • Support was faster at first, seems to not be as quick as in the beginning.
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Discontinued Products
  • Managing more and more routers can add complexity with templates.
  • Documentation around internal routing protocol they use is confusing.
  • Boost add-on was oversold by pre-sales team and not helpful during testing.
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Support Rating
Palo Alto Networks
The support was super fast in the beginning. Sometimes it seems now that the support does not get back to you as quickly. When we do get in contact with the support, they are usually knowledgeable and can help find the problem. The support has also been easy to work with.
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They need to improve their Spanish communication.
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Alternatives Considered
Palo Alto Networks
We evaluated Silverpeaks and Cisco. We found that CloudGenics' had a pricing model that met our needs. The sales team we worked with went over our existing environment thoroughly to provide the right size solution without compromising or limiting our technology needs. While the overall solutions form each vendor would have worked, we simply believed CloudGenic was the right fit for our company based on price, sales, support, and functionality.
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We currently have almost all Cisco Meraki and would have loved to keep the product portfolio the same. Silver Peak was far cheaper and offered far more features. A lot of our evaluation showed that NGFW offers SD-WAN but it is not a full-featured deployment. Silver Peak is by and large better at being able to use both links at once, offer failover, QoS, and central reporting.
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Return on Investment
Palo Alto Networks
  • Reduced Down time
  • Improved throughput due to their intelligent data analytics
  • Full utilization of all data circuits
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Discontinued Products
  • Able to get rid of MPLS
  • No more router hardware costs
  • Able to use both WAN links instead of one being only failover
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