Likelihood to Recommend It's very well suited for geographically dispersed organizations, where deploying and managing remote firewalls and other network security functions aren't practical. Once deployed, and the deployment isn't difficult after planning and understanding the data flows of the IoT devices, the system is easily managed and flexible. You're able to allow front line operations people to add devices into a role without sacrificing the integrity of the security model.
Read full review With proper design, VMware NSX can and should be deployed to virtually any VMware virtualization environment, but the deployment should be tailored to the needs of that environment. There isn't really a one size fits all deployment design for all environments. That versatility is what provides its greatest strength to a business.
Read full review Pros Low capital and support cost structures. Ease of deployment. Ability to work over the existing network. Read full review End to end encryption on the wire. Micro-segmentation. Integrates well with existing VMWare environment. Integrates well with our existing network. Read full review Cons Integration with third-party security controls. Automating the on-boarding of devices. Reporting needs to be more detailed. Read full review Interoperability in multi-vendor environments Advanced networking and packet acceleration options can be improved Read full review Support Rating It's pretty darned good for a new company. We had to hash through a couple of instances that no one had ever run into, but once we got to the right person on the engineering team, they were able to work through the solution pretty quickly. The nice thing is, unlike Cisco, once you fix something, you don't find three new things that have to be changed.
Read full review Alternatives Considered The cost and complexity vs. ISE is as different as Uber and Lift are from trying to take a taxi in Duluth, Minnesota. The complexity of Cisco's IoT security is a joke. It was going to take us over a year just to deploy all the Cisco equipment, and that was if we could have gotten it all working together. We got the entire project deployed in just under 3 months, and that includes working out all the bugs and logistics. Honestly, I don't think all the Cisco parts would have ever been running like Cisco promised it would. It's just way too complicated.
Read full review We use both
Cisco ACI and VMware NSX, and while they have different strengths and capabilities, I would recommend VMware NSX, as it can be used in all VMware environments, without costly physical infrastructure changes.
Cisco ACI provides some of the same capabilities, but not all. It's focus relies on physical networking changes.
Read full review Return on Investment Capital cost to deploy was 1/4 the cost of doing Cisco. People and time frame to do the entire deployment was 1/12th the time/people to complete the installation. On-going management is being done without adding staff. Read full review Ability to move workloads more easily with the ability to stretch/move networks across multiple physical locations. The added flexibility allows you to expedite tech refreshes since you're no longer constrained by the hardware. Read full review ScreenShots