Oracle SD-WAN (Talari) vs. Riverbed SteelHead

Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)

Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)

2 Reviews and Ratings

Riverbed SteelHead

Riverbed SteelHead

18 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	The vendor states that Oracle SD-WAN was created to solve the ongoing IT challenges network managers face every day—from expensive, sluggish, inflexible WANs to difficulties deploying new office WAN links and accessing cloud services. With Oracle SD-WAN, enterprises can benefit from internet economics, leverage high-bandwidth and inexpensive Internet connections, and safely migrate applications to the public cloud and SaaS at their own pace. The technology is based on Oracle's 2018 acquisition…	N/A
Riverbed SteelHead	Score 8.1 out of 10	N/A	San Francisco based Riverbed Technology offers Steelhead, a WAN optimization solution. The new SteelHead 90 series appliances are designed to provide performance, security, scalability, data movement efficiency, and resilient networking.	N/A

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Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)

Riverbed SteelHead

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Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)	Riverbed SteelHead
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Community Pulse
	Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)	Riverbed SteelHead
Considered Both Products	Oracle SD-WAN (Talari) Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle SD-WAN (Talari) While I haven't looked at Silverpeak in a long time and haven't used any of the other big players, this product is a dedicated SD-WAN solution, so no need to get a combination device, unless that's important. We will likely implement SD-WAN through our next firewall platform … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Oracle SD-WAN (Talari) I would say they are pretty close in service delivery and the way they manage link performance. The only thing I would say Citrix is more expensive, but I like Citrix support better ( experience with Citrix LB). We have been using Meraki for a while. It delivers what we … Incentivized Helpful?	Riverbed SteelHead KW Kevin Walgren Technology Lead Chose Riverbed SteelHead We felt our value and price for Riverbed Steelhead blew the competition out of the water. Incentivized Helpful? RR Ralf Richter Senior Solution Architect Chose Riverbed SteelHead We tested Cisco eleven years ago in parallel with Riverbed in a PoC. The Cisco configuration was very complex and sticky based on the location. The Riverbed configuration is flexible based on the whole storage. A software client for devices like laptops or tablets is not … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Riverbed SteelHead We used some firewalls with built-in WAN optimisation, however, they lacked the features that Riverbed Steelhead gave us. Incentivized Helpful? TS Tim Slater Manager, Corporate Services and Information Systems Chose Riverbed SteelHead I have done a POC of several other vendors products and Riverbed Steelhead comes out on top. Incentivized Helpful? KD Kyle Depue Network Services Manager Chose Riverbed SteelHead Steelhead is still clearly the leader in this space but needs to work on RIOS code stability. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Riverbed SteelHead Riverbed Steelhead offers simplicity and fantastic customer support. The performance is a cut above the others as well. Incentivized Helpful?

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	Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)	Riverbed SteelHead
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User Ratings
	Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)	Riverbed SteelHead
Likelihood to Recommend	8.0 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)	Riverbed SteelHead
Likelihood to Recommend	Although things like high speed are not available in Talari (I think none of the SDWAN providers offer this), Talari devices provide good security and are easy to manage Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Riverbed Steelhead is very stable and integrates into applications easily, especially Microsoft and Azure or AWS. If there is a new Windows version available, the Riverbed version is not far away. The remote locations can work like they are located near the data center. For this reason, you can reduce your global data centers to a minimum. Some customers have just one! Incentivized Ralf Richter Senior Solution Architect Read full review
Pros	Failsafe- ability to aggregate low cost link and increase enterprise WAN bandwidth and also provide safe failor over in case of link interruption, with almost zero drops. In a lab test for voice it works perfectly for voice. Config Change without system interruption (change config and apply it during Maintenance windows). Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Effectively improves data throughput over VPN WAN connections. Seamless operation. Optimizes a variety of applications. Including, HTTPS, Citrix, Netapp SM and SV, Exchange, etc. Incentivized Tim Slater Manager, Corporate Services and Information Systems Read full review
Cons	Talari Aware management solution very complex to set up useful dashboards Management interface seems overly complex (7.3), though this was supposedly improved in 9.0 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	A reduction in price is always welcomed Simplify and streamline advanced features and add-on pieces for more detailed traffic analysis Getting granularity into traffic behavior becomes confusing and very expensive Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Support Rating	So far so good. I have no problems with support; they were able to deliver a good service to us every time we needed it. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	While I haven't looked at Silverpeak in a long time and haven't used any of the other big players, this product is a dedicated SD-WAN solution, so no need to get a combination device, unless that's important. We will likely implement SD-WAN through our next firewall platform refresh as a backup to Talari. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	We felt our value and price for Riverbed Steelhead blew the competition out of the water. Incentivized KW Kevin Walgren Technology Lead Read full review
Return on Investment	For lower-bandwidth requirements (100's of Mbps) it is very cost-effective vs. the other big names Hardware is reasonably priced Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Files now open a lot quicker, at near local speeds. We are able to respond to customers quicker as we can get access quicker. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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