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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ASolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) is designed to assist IT and security admins to quickly and easily provision, deprovision, manage and audit user access rights to systems, data, and files. By analyzing user authorizations and access permission you get visualization of who has access to what and when they accessed it. Demonstrate compliance with most regulatory requirements with customized reports. Provision and deprovision users using…N/A

    Barracuda CloudGen Firewall

    Score9.4 out of 10
    N/ABarracuda CloudGen Firewalls provides a wide range of security and connectivity features, including web filtering, NAC and SSL VPN and other features for remote access, as well as protection as edge devices and IoT security.N/A
    Pricing
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Barracuda offers prospective buyers a build and quote tool on their website.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    67%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    75%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    78%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    75%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    63%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
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    Features
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
    Firewall
    Comparison of Firewall features of SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) and Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
    Feature
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)
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    Ratings
    Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
    9.5
    11 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Identification Technologies00 Ratings9.710 Ratings
    Visualization Tools00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Content Inspection00 Ratings9.49 Ratings
    Policy-based Controls00 Ratings9.810 Ratings
    Active Directory and LDAP00 Ratings9.611 Ratings
    Firewall Management Console00 Ratings9.611 Ratings
    Reporting and Logging00 Ratings9.411 Ratings
    VPN00 Ratings9.710 Ratings
    High Availability00 Ratings9.99 Ratings
    Stateful Inspection00 Ratings9.88 Ratings
    Proxy Server00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    10.0
    (14 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    6.4
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    5.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    1.8
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    4.5
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)Barracuda CloudGen Firewall
    Likelihood to Recommend
    SolarWinds
    It [SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM)] is well suited for small to medium sized companies who want to enhance and ease up their daily work. As well as it is suited for organized structures, it has its problems with very complex environments. For example, if you are working with direct and multiple permissions instead of having more granular group based permissions.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    I would say a small business with a basic firewall and security needs would be a perfect fit for the Barracuda CloudGen firewall. I know that they soon end up leaving the NG models and are moving forward with the F series firewall. I think the F series is a much more difficult to manage device and doesn’t offer simplistic configuration or use and lacks cloud control so I don’t understand the move on Barracuda’s part to nix a great easy to manage the firewall. I do think that the NG line is maybe too simple for bigger businesses and would lack some main features that they would require.
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    Pros
    SolarWinds
    • SolarWinds Access Rights Manager is easy to set up and configure. We had the first report generated in a few hours.
    • The automated feature for the reports is great. We just set it and forget it and now the reports get emailed on schedule.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • The management software is excellent. It make it much easier to manage the firewalls than some of the other vendors.
    • Watching real-time traffic is easy to do when trying to troubleshoot a users issues getting to a particular service.
    • Support from Barracuda has been excellent. We rate their phone and online remote support as being the best in the business.
    • We like the QoS and Traffic shaping of the NG Firewalls. They help is manage our limited bandwidth, so that business critical resources are available over lesser critical resources.
    • Integration with Active Directory makes it easy to identify users activities in logs.
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    Cons
    SolarWinds
    • Licensing model when we changed over to SolarWinds was [I feel] a nightmare. It needs to be more streamlined and SolarWinds needs to understand what their customers require. When we changed over to SolarWinds we found it very hard to get answers to what modules we were still licensed for.
    • Our current system is not functioning. We can't login to the application with the accounts we created that were working. The error that appears doesn't help to resolve it. So at present we just renewed licenses for this year and we can't use the system.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • Very complex and steep learning curve to get up to speed.
    • Multiple ways to configure for the same service or feature. Takes time to determine "your" customized build.
    • Interface can sometimes be clunky when trying to determine how it's organized or arranged. Again, steep learning curve.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    SolarWinds
    It is in place and working. No time or money to consider anything else.
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    Usability
    SolarWinds
    End user experience is much better than administration
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Easy enough to use and configure using the management UI. Reporting from the web filter is a little clunky, and not very user friendly. To be perfectly honest, once it's set up and running, there isn't a lot to do from the day-to-day side of things, which is not a bad thing.
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    Reliability and Availability
    SolarWinds
    On occasion the server will need to be restarted to get things running again
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    SolarWinds
    Satisfactory performance
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    SolarWinds
    Very slow response times and sometimes I found the solution and ended up sharing it with support
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    I could go on and on about how good Barracuda's support really is. I have yet to have a problem they didn't help me fix and I always learn something when talking with them. The story that best describes my overall experience with Barracuda's support is this: When I first put in the xSeries they had a problem with a policy route. There was a bug in the code and in the one situation I was it, it just would not work. I went up the levels of support and they couldn't fix it. Well, next thing I know I am on the phone with 2 of the guys that programmed the thing and they work out the solution in no time and get me going. That is support. That is what I have come to expect from Barracuda. If the tech on the phone doesn't know the answer, they do not stop until they find it. Grant it, I also have to admit I do not call support with every problem, I try to work it out on my own first as that is how I learn best, so when I do call support it is going to be complicated.
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    Implementation Rating
    SolarWinds
    It was my first exposure to this type of product and I wasn’t given the time to figure out how best to implement it. I would say get a plan together of what you are tying to accomplish first
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    Alternatives Considered
    SolarWinds
    I found the installation and configuration to be much easier and more straightforward. What also assisted in the decision to go with Access Rights Manager, was the fact we already made use of Solarwinds products. Knowing from previous experiences with their support staff, meant we knew how great their after-hours support was whenever we had any technical issues with the platform. We felt it would be better to keep it all under one roof so to speak
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    Our Cisco firewall was always difficult to make any changes against. It had no user-friendly GUI interface. We were calling technical support most of the time whenever we needed to make any changes. The Barracuda CloudGen Firewall has a GUI interface which we are looking forward to getting better acquainted with as we move off of our old Cisco. Of course, Barracuda's technical support is always there and is top notch!
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    Scalability
    SolarWinds
    No experience with this
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
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    Return on Investment
    SolarWinds
    • Team leads recieve automated reports of permissions within their team, and it allows them to proactively audit their team members
    • Security specialists have really clear dashboards to audit individuals
    • We can be sure we never leave a permission open after a person leaves
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    Barracuda Networks Inc.
    • We saved multiple thousands of dollars the first year out with the firewall in maintenance fees. We paid for the firewall and 3 years of service and still saved money.
    • The ease of management allows me to do my job more efficiently. I save a lot of time when doing my day to day job because I can get to my firewall virtually anywhere.
    • I feel a lot safer and my business more secure knowing that I have configured things the way they need to be and it was simple and not overly complicated.
    Incentivized
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    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) Screenshots

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    Barracuda CloudGen Firewall Screenshots

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