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Next best UTM product recommendations?

MW

We have begun our corporate search for the next great UTM product . 


With the writing on the wall for the UTM series going EOL in the next few years, I was wondering what other firewalls people have had good experience with?  We will be replacing our ageing 525 HA cluster but also need to select a product we use for our customers.   We like to eat our own dog food before we ask our customers to purchase our recommended firewalls.

So, whats out there?  We have tried the sonicwalls and they use the same per policy paradigm crap used by the SophosFS/Cyberroam. 


We need a solution that scales from SMB up to the enterprise space.  And home based usage would be a bonus too.

Ideas?




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    i did alot of testing of different firewalls and utm products. UTM 9 is still a product i would recommend and buy/subscribe today if we needed a UTM Solution.

    If you need scalability and just simple firewall without UTM features the former makers of Astaro made "ocedo", a network virtualization product that scales very well. It does not replace a UTM but can manage your networks pretty well if you have multiple locations etc. (lacking some features)

    UTM going EOL will be a problem in a few years, considering the current state of the "next gen firewall" we will not stay with sophos. That beeing said we are not going to ocedo either (it lacks too many features of the UTM) - It will definitly be "interesting" on what will be on the market.

    On the other hand i can not imagine that sophos will send UTM 9 EOL before having a product that is a "worthy" replacement. That would be stupid and bad for business.
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    On the other hand i can not imagine that sophos will send UTM 9 EOL before having a product that is a "worthy" replacement. That would be stupid and bad for business.

    Isn't that almost exactly what happen? I mean I've tried to setup the Sophos "next gen firewall" on the same hardware used for my UTM 9.3, the thing does not even detect my networks interfaces.. Straight to NO GO / BROKEN for me.

    I'm sad to see what's happening here really though maybe the community could buy Karlsruhe and continue as OpenAstaro?? Anyways as SFOS is a no go for me i'll check a few alternatives, Fortinet FortiGate being my number one target. Although clearly there is no rush for now..

    I've checked other solutions like pfSense, Untangle, ipFire amongst others and clearly they do not compete aligned to Astaro utm..

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    On the other hand i can not imagine that sophos will send UTM 9 EOL before having a product that is a "worthy" replacement. That would be stupid and bad for business.

    Isn't that almost exactly what happen? I mean I've tried to setup the Sophos "next gen firewall" on the same hardware used for my UTM 9.3, the thing does not even detect my networks interfaces.. Straight to NO GO / BROKEN for me.

    I'm sad to see what's happening here really though maybe the community could buy Karlsruhe and continue as OpenAstaro?? Anyways as SFOS is a no go for me i'll check a few alternatives, Fortinet FortiGate being my number one target. Although clearly there is no rush for now..

    I've checked other solutions like pfSense, Untangle, ipFire amongst others and clearly they do not compete aligned to Astaro utm..

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