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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Red Hat JBoss EAP

    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Sophos Cloud Web Gateway (discontinued)

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASophos Cloud Web Gateway has been discontinued since 30 June 2020.N/A
    Pricing
    Red Hat JBoss EAPSophos Cloud Web Gateway (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Red Hat JBoss EAPSophos Cloud Web Gateway (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Red Hat JBoss EAPSophos Cloud Web Gateway (discontinued)
    Application Servers
    Comparison of Application Servers features of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Sophos Cloud Web Gateway (discontinued)
    Feature
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
    6.8
    9 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Sophos Cloud Web Gateway (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    IDE support6.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security management7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Administration and management8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application server performance8.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Installation5.09 Ratings00 Ratings
    Open-source standards compliance7.09 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Red Hat JBoss EAPSophos Cloud Web Gateway (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (8 ratings)
    9.2
    (2 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    5.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Red Hat JBoss EAPSophos Cloud Web Gateway (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Red Hat
    JBoss EAP is subscription based/open source platform. It's very reliable and great for deploying high transaction Java based enterprise applications. It integrates well with third party components like mod_cluster and supports popular Java EE web-based frameworks such as Spring, Angular JS, jQuery Mobile, and Google Web Toolkit.
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    Sophos Secure Web Gateway is great for almost any business that needs an easily-manageable proxy server. We're a medium-sized enterprise, but the product would work great for much larger companies as well. The only real limitations would be hardware resources, but it isn't that intensive. The administration of it is very intuitive, and it was quick to set up. Where it might not make sense is across multiple sites, unless all internet traffic is funneled through one place. It would be a bit complicated to maintain multiple setups.
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    Pros
    Red Hat
    • MOD_CLUSTER integration. JBoss EAP integrates pretty well with mod_cluster. This is an intelligent load balancer especially useful in highly clustered environments.
    • Supports enterprise-grade features such as high availability clustering, distributed caching, messaging etc.
    • Supports deployment in on-premise, virtual and hybrid cloud environments.
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    • When IT Admins need to deploy virtually.
    • When IT Admins want to have high availability without an extra cost (via the Virtual Appliance Deployment).
    • When IT Admins want to control and give the internet fair use within the organization.
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    Cons
    Red Hat
    • Difficult to replicate configuration outside of a container environment
    • Still requires quite a bit of knowledge of the CLI
    • Integration with deployment tools requires CLI knowledge
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    • Administrator Permissions: There's not enough granularity on the administrative side. We ran into an issue where we wanted to restrict junior admins from being able to see traffic per user. But in doing so, it also prevented them from adusting some other settings they had to have access to, like setting exceptions for sites.
    • CA Database: I occasionally run into issues where the list of certificate authorities in the appliance is not up to date, and I have to manually add a CA. These aren't rare, never-heard-of authorities, either, but they are usually subsidiaries of one of the major ones.
    • Feedback: Sometimes it takes some good detective skills to track down why a legitimate site isn't working. It's often because of content hosted elsewhere (images, for example), but the reports aren't always clear as to what actually gets blocked. It takes some trial and error sometimes to unblock something that should be okay for our business.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Red Hat
    We are planning to migrate away from Jboss to Tomcat as Jboss has shown not interest in supporting OSGi which is heavily used at our shop
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    Usability
    Red Hat
    JBoss overall is easy to use. The installation and deployment of applications are quick. Documentations and support are also readily available.
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    Performance
    Red Hat
    JBoss EAP is lightweight and doesn't really consumes much physical resources. It's high performing and suites well for high transaction Java enterprise applications. The out of box performance settings are not really great and you will have to configure the settings to suite your environment to leverage it's full benefits.
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    Support Rating
    Red Hat
    Fast response.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Red Hat
    We selected JBoss because of compatibility with EJB's. We currently are trying to reduce our footprint and will highly consider using Tomcat.
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    Sophos Secure Web Gateway has flexible pricing and deployment options. It offers a huge range of categorization options and they also pull web categorization info from other services
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    Return on Investment
    Red Hat
    • Jboss EAP is easy to deploy and configure. This lead to lower cost and faster delivery.
    • Even though we have large number of machines running JBoss, we have only two Jboss Administrators. It doesn't requires too much administration and maintenance on daily basis and reduces number of administrators required for large implementations.
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    Discontinued Products
    • We have not had a single instance of malware since installing Web Gateway. We have other ways to prevent infections and attacks, of course, so this is just one tool in the box, but we had a handful before this from people visiting sites they should not have. Web Gateway has prevented those, at least.
    • There was some pushback initially as users had to deal with some business sites not working (usually due to CA problems). After the initial growing pains, however, we've seen very few other problems.
    • The appliance updates itself, in the middle of the night, so that reduces some overhead and planned downtime.
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