Sophos UTM in a glance
Overall Satisfaction with Sophos UTM
Sophos UTM and Sophos XG Appliances, deliver great security along with affordable pricing for every company. Sophos is great as a visionary company, keeping up with IT Managers' requests for features within their products (specially Sophos SG Appliances and XG NGFWs). Their hardware addresses a constant situation where many competitors fail; they are scalable, and tough (SSDs Hard Drives, and Intel latest generation processors is about it). Recently I found out an opportunity for us, as a company, to deliver something that many competitors fail at, HIGH AVAILABILITY with just 1 license. While other vendors, try to squeeze the companies for every penny, Sophos address that issue, and is honest about it: They deliver High Availability in Active/Passive mode, with two identical hardware options, with just one license (with their main competitor, you MUST buy two licenses, which makes the solution more expensive). Sophos is honest, with their products and technology.
- Scalability, if you needed HA in Active/Passive Mode, but need more throughput during certain periods when the parameters change (i.e. number of users, or Internet bandwidth growth) you can always license the second one and it will behave as a Cluster in Active/Active mode in just 2 minutes, with no downtime.
- Delivers great WebGUI management, which is easily understandable by every IT Professional
- Worldwide RMA, gosh! If you have any kind of issue with your hardware, Sophos will deliver it to your business door, at no cost, with a return label for you to ship the damaged or faulty device back. No questions asked.
- Constant visionary technology, with out of this world new features.
- Better standard support, it used to be great, now, not so much (for paying customers, that only aquired the Hardware)
- Better wireless solution, there is always room for that, now that everybody needs robust wifi, even at home!
- Faster and more robust wireless Access Points, or different vendor-like compatibility.
- Great ROI when we decided to change all of our previous UTM products to this, since our team got trained, and the support cases hit rock bottom - almost NO support needed.
- Negative impact when we've been asked about a 300 Access Point solution for several projects and we can't deliver a robust wifi solution managed by the UTM.
- Great positive impact when our company decided to invest in Sophos by representing them, and we created a very strong goodwill partnership, and almost in every LatAm country everybody knew who Sophos is. Great advertising and marketing campaigns on the Sophos side.
Sophos delivers great throughput, and great and simple WebGUI. There is no other honest (or even capable) high availability scenario for industries that needs 99% of uptime (almost everyone, since now everyone relies on the Internet). Robust hardware and in the software version, more compatible hardware that works with most Ethernet cards and vendors...