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Sophos UTM firewall being phased out?

R Hartes

I was visited by our Sophos reseller, he tells us that Sophos UTM is no longer being developed, and we should migrate to XG instead. We can keep the same hardware (SG300), we just need to install new software, and migrate the firewall rules. Licenses and support remain the same.

Anyone else heard that UTM is no longer being developed, and advised they should switch to XG?

Thanks,

Richard.



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  • 0 in reply to Renede Bie

    Hi,

    Homelicense always is issued for 3 years.

  • 0 in reply to Emile Belcourt

    Hi Emile, thanks for the comprehensive response and the thought behind it. It sounds like it's a long-term planning to phase out UTM rather than short-term to me. I question if we need to move this year to XG, since it performs perfectly well for us. Our support finishes next year (summer 2020) so i think this might be a project for next year.

    Regards, Richard.

  • 0

    Changing from UTM to XG involves a complete redesign.   No way that you want to attempt a migration using a single device.   There is no migration script and there probably never will be.  

    Consequently, when you decide to retire your UTM, you can pick from any solution from any vendor, XG has to win the competitive evaluation at that moment in time.  This includes the choice between applicance and cloud products, and the choice between single-purpose and multi-function devices.

  • 0 in reply to R Hartes

    I agree with the timelines proposed by Emile.

    I don't think Sophos wants to anger thousands of otherwise-happy customers so I don't think they will announce end-of-sales before they have a robust migration tool.  I started with the double-secret beta of that almost two years ago, but the XG had too few features and we all lost interest, as the devs at Sophos also seem to have done at the time.  I expect that there won't be much effort on that until XG is roughly at feature parity with the UTM.

    So I agree that there's no reason to be in a hurry to leave the investment in the UTM behind.  No reason to move to XG for most organizations.

    Cheers - Bob

     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
    Sophos Certified Architect - UTM
    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
    MediaSoft, Inc. USA
  • 0 in reply to BAlfson

    I remember that beta (more alpha) migration tool and in the end, still, it's easier to do a complete migration manually.

    A lot of our customers take it as an opportunity for a cleanup or redesign of their security standpoint. I think the only thing i kind of want a migration tool for is network objects and maybe firewall rules & NAT rules. The web filter is so far different as well as the IPS it means a lot of reconfig.

    Emile

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