Palo Alto Networks Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series vs. SonicWall E10000 Series

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series
Score 9.7 out of 10
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The VM-Series is a virtualized form of Palo Alto next-generation firewall that can be deployed in a range of cloud environments. The VM-Series natively analyzes all traffic in a single pass to determine the application identity, the content within, and the user identity.N/A
SonicWall E10000 Series
Score 0.0 out of 10
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SonicWall E10000 Series is the company's high end next generation firewall (NGFW).N/A
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
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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
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Features
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Firewall
Comparison of Firewall features of Product A and Product B
Palo Alto Networks Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM Series
9.5
6 Ratings
11% above category average
SonicWall E10000 Series
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Ratings
Identification Technologies9.76 Ratings00 Ratings
Visualization Tools9.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Content Inspection10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Policy-based Controls9.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Active Directory and LDAP9.56 Ratings00 Ratings
Firewall Management Console9.46 Ratings00 Ratings
Reporting and Logging9.36 Ratings00 Ratings
VPN9.26 Ratings00 Ratings
High Availability8.85 Ratings00 Ratings
Stateful Inspection10.06 Ratings00 Ratings
Proxy Server9.44 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 9.2 out of 10
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Score 9.2 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Score 9.3 out of 10
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Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Score 9.3 out of 10
Enterprises
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Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Score 9.3 out of 10
Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Palo Alto Networks Virtualized Next-Generation Firewalls - VM SeriesSonicWall E10000 Series
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(8 ratings)
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Support Rating
10.0
(1 ratings)
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Palo Alto Networks
PaloAlto VM-200 is a virtualized firewall with high processing power and network edge protection. The great advantage is being able to implement in a VMware environment without worrying about hardware, rack space, physical network connections and others. It can be easily managed via the web and remotely to create protection, access and reporting rules. The VM-200 firewall can be used by any company, small or large because it has several models available according to the real needs of each one.
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SonicWall
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Pros
Palo Alto Networks
  • Decrypt internet traffic
  • daily reporting of top internet users
  • classify internet traffic in real-time to allow us to understand the organization needs.
  • Strong AI capabilities
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SonicWall
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Cons
Palo Alto Networks
  • High Availability can be improved to allow active-active deployment
  • All command line documentation to provide and support automation
  • It will be nice to have link aggregation just like in the hardware firewall models.
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SonicWall
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Support Rating
Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto VM series are best selling and industry's top-selling security product which customers prefer while securing their public cloud environment
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SonicWall
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Alternatives Considered
Palo Alto Networks
palo alto firewalls are application-oriented systems. They can beat other product which are based on layer 3/4 inspection. Vm series are also quickly available and could be useful in urgent deployment needs . other vendors like Fortinet and cisco could take much more time to provide the VM and in some cases installation and license validation are complicated
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SonicWall
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Return on Investment
Palo Alto Networks
  • ROI has been achieved quickly through lack of security incidents.
  • Inline filtering happens at line rate, unline Sourcefire from Cisco.
  • Great incentives from PAN to switch made a difference in the choice to change.
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SonicWall
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