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    Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/ARed Hat Virtualization (formerly Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, broadly known as RHEV) is an enterprise level server and desktop virtualization solution. Red Hat Virtualization also contains the functionality of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktop in later editions of the platform.

    $999

    Per Year Per Hypervisor

    Symantec Content & Malware Analysis

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/ASymantec Content & Malware Analysis is an application which provides advanced threat detection and threat hunting through advanced machine learning, based on intelligence gathered from ProxySG, threat intelligence services, and other sources.N/A
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    Editions & Modules
    Standard
    $999.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
    Premium
    $1,499.00
    Per Year Per Hypervisor
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    Pricing Offerings
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    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
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    Server Virtualization
    Comparison of Server Virtualization features of Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued) and Symantec Content & Malware Analysis
    Feature
    Red Hat Virtualization (discontinued)
    7.7
    10 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Symantec Content & Malware Analysis
    -
    Ratings
    Virtual machine automated provisioning7.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management console7.310 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine backup7.29 Ratings00 Ratings
    Live virtual machine migration6.910 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hypervisor-level security8.99 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score10 out of 10
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.6
    (11 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
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    Discontinued Products
    RHEV is well suited for organizations that need a cost-effective and flexible solution for their environment. As its vendor-independent software, easily install on any type of hardware. RHEV provides a GUI interface to manage the software, which makes the management of the software easier for the end-user. RHEV is best for non-production or less critical applications. RHEV can be easily integrated with other REDHAT software.
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    If you have Symantec based environment including Symantec proxy and endpoints, Content and Malware Analysis is the obvious choice. You can't run the CAS-MAS as a standalone deployment, you need proxies or ICAP supported devices capable to send the files/URLS. It's not a network security device where you can flow/direct the traffic to C/MAS. It does not have UBA, NBA or NTR features, it is just working for analyzing files as expected.
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    Pros
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    • RHV issues/bugs can be reported via Bugzilla to RH support. The service is great and typically responds soon.
    • Red Hat distribution integration is seamless as it is integrated into the kernel.
    • OpenStack support enables more customized VM templates and network configuration control.
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    • 0 day detection and prevenion
    • Flawless integration with Symantec Ecosystem
    • Integration with other vendors supporting ICAP is also working
    • Custom and golden image support
    • High performance on busy environments
    • Many threats are already detected and prevented through the CAS, it improves the performance drastically.
    • Already builtin virustotal integration
    • Reference to updates and updates information where I can see the product/service detecting which APTs
    • Multiple Antivirus engines which you can select/subscribe
    • Manual submission of file is supported through the gui
    • URL manual submission is also supported
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    Cons
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    • 1- RHVM API is pretty slow, especially after creating a VM it is not possible to retrieve the VM details (i.e VM's MAC Address) fast enough, where we need to place a pause in our Ansible Playbook, make the automation process slow.
    • 2- RHV is still using collected to monitor the hypervisors which is deviating from Red Hat policy for other RHEL based applications to use PCP to monitor, which is richer in features.
    • 3- It will be great if it is possible to patch the hypervisors using other tools such as satellite and not only via RHVM.
    • 4- In the past Red Hat used to present patches in the z release (i.e. 4.3.z), and features in the y release (i.e 4. y), but starting from 4.4 that is mixed together wherein the Z release you get both patches and features, that is not good because that requires a lot of time to test when we patch as it includes features as well.
    • 5- Engineering team has to be more reactive when new feature is requested.
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    • API support is lacking
    • Symantec/Broadcom security vision in general
    • Symantec support is not perfect
    • You can't run the product as a standalone network device
    • No packet capture capabiliy or work in span mode
    • You need a dedicated hardware to make it run
    • You need to buy
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    Alternatives Considered
    Discontinued Products
    RHEV is an excellent product, includes more features, is less expensive, and has rock solid reliability and is backed with the best Red Hat Support in the industry. RHEV uses KVM under the hood which is used by all the big players in the industry (AWS, Rackspace, etc) to lower their overall costs and improve efficiency and profits and that's why RHEV is an excellent solution!
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    Broadcom
    We have been using many solutions even tested nearly all available 0day sandbox solutions in the market. We choose Symantec CMA as we have already Symantec endpoint protection/EDR on the client, Symantec proxy for the web access, SCMA fits our environment. We have a big bargain when we puchase lots of equipment from the Symantec. Detection and prevention is very good at SCMA but some constant issues; like the product is not designed for heterogeneous environments, we can not integrate the SCMA with WAFs, it's lacking in api and request/reply calls. There's no file scanning, discover the option. SIEM integration is not smooth. I can not run some of the SOAR playbooks through the SCMA.
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    Return on Investment
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    • RHEV has provided a positive ROI as our customers are not experiencing as many outages during maintenances.
    • We have not experienced any catastrophic failures as a result of vsphere losing connection to the ntp.
    • There has been a level of stability in our environment that was not previously experienced with our previous vendor.
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    Broadcom
    • 0-day and APT risk is covered by the SCMA
    • As the SSL is inspected and analyzed at Bluecoat proxy servers, hidden threats, malicous files are passed to SCMA to be analyzed.
    • Getting full visibility at file trajectory level
    • As it's a full proxy and ICAP integration, we are sure that the files are to analyzed and scanned for malicious activity. This is a big plus compared to NGFW analyze concept, as the NGFWs have special failsafe mechanisms allowing bypass of file analysis. SCMA fully catches the hidden threats.
    • Flawless integration with Bluecoat systems is a big plus, customers are getting the same type of messages within their browsers.
    • A negative impact is the standardization when I deploy SCAM to one of our locations. Then the auditors demand the same coverage within other areas and it comes with the cost. Especially maintaining these devices on premise environment has a significant cost.
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