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ShieldX vs VMware NSX comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 14, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

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ShieldX is praised for responsive, knowledgeable customer service, effective problem-solving, comprehensive documentation, and excellent onboarding process ensuring customer satisfaction.
Sentiment score
7.9
VMware NSX support is generally reliable but varies in responsiveness and expertise, with improvement needed in certain regions.
Our technicians have a good support experience from the company.
 

Room For Improvement

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Users suggest improving ShieldX's dashboard, customer support response times, performance, integration, documentation, setup process, updates, and feature additions.
Sentiment score
4.9
VMware NSX needs enhancements in integration, automation, deployment, and support to address complexity, pricing, and user-friendliness challenges.
 

Scalability Issues

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ShieldX is praised for scalability, adaptability, seamless integration, and robust performance across diverse infrastructures and varying network sizes.
Sentiment score
7.8
VMware NSX is scalable across large infrastructures, praised for adaptability, hardware independence, and seamless integration in various environments.
 

Setup Cost

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ShieldX offers flexible, cost-effective, and scalable pricing options tailored to enterprise needs, with transparent pricing and strong support.
Sentiment score
4.8
VMware NSX pricing is higher than competitors, complex, and may discourage smaller organizations due to potentially unused features.
VMware NSX is a little higher in price compared to the competition.
 

Stability Issues

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Users praise ShieldX for its stability, reliability under various conditions, minimal downtime, and consistent protection against threats.
Sentiment score
8.0
VMware NSX is stable and mature, praised for robust performance and dependability, despite occasional minor upgrade issues.
 

Valuable Features

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ShieldX is valued for scalability, integration, ease of deployment, comprehensive security, high performance, user-friendly management, and automated policies.
Sentiment score
8.0
VMware NSX offers micro-segmentation, automation, scalability, and integration, enhancing security and flexibility across virtual environments and clouds.
The most powerful feature of VMware NSX is the micro-segmentation that allows us to separate the different protocols our application works with.
 

Categories and Ranking

ShieldX
Ranking in Cloud and Data Center Security
20th
Ranking in Microsegmentation Software
13th
Average Rating
9.2
Number of Reviews
4
Ranking in other categories
Firewalls (49th)
VMware NSX
Ranking in Cloud and Data Center Security
1st
Ranking in Microsegmentation Software
1st
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
101
Ranking in other categories
Network Virtualization (2nd), Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) (8th), Network Detection and Response (NDR) (7th), Network Automation (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Cloud and Data Center Security category, the mindshare of ShieldX is 0.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware NSX is 25.7%, down from 33.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud and Data Center Security
 

Featured Reviews

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Proactively monitors, blocks, and reports what it has blocked; and self-updates meaning there is zero maintenance
The most valuable feature is the automatic scaling. With its microservices, it scales both up and down, depending on traffic and throughput. The traffic through our website depends on holiday bookings. It's very quiet in November through January, and then our traffic picks up quite rapidly and, at our peak, we will take in excess of a million pounds of business a day through our website. The UI was also one of the huge selling points. My web development manager was blown away with the detail and the granularity that you can get out of the UI. It is a very strong and informative UI, with the amount of data it provides. Uptime on the system has been 648 days and we do very little to it because it self-updates and alerts. It does everything that we need it to do, so the administration side of it is zero. One of the beauties about ShieldX is that it's such a good "fire-and-forget" product.
Chris Nixon - PeerSpot reviewer
Overly complex, initial setup could be simplified, but the migration methods are good
The on-premises version of VMware NSX is not scalable. The cloud version is most likely fine. I couldn't really say, but after the on-premise system was implemented, everyone was afraid of change. It was really flaky. We don't have a large number of users. It is not used as such by people; it is a piece of infrastructure software. There would have been less than half a dozen, not very many.
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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company
16%
Financial Services Firm
14%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
9%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
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Also Known As

APEIRO, ShieldX APEIRO
VMware Nicira, Lastline Defender
 

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Sample Customers

Iowa State University
City of Avondale, Lumeta, Kroll Ontrack, Heartland Payment Systems, Baystate Heallth, Exostar, Tribune Media, iGATE, NTT Communications, Synergent, California Natural Resources Agency, Bloomington Public Schools, Columbia Sportswear, Join Experience S.A, Schuberg Philis
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