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Oracle SD-WAN (Talari) vs. Riverbed SteelHead

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)
Score 8.0 out of 10
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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
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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
Pricing
Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)Riverbed SteelHead
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Offerings
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
Oracle SD-WAN (Talari)Riverbed SteelHead
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8.0
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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
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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!
Ralf Richter | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ralf Richter
Senior Solution Architect
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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).
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  • Effectively improves data throughput over VPN WAN connections.
  • Seamless operation.
  • Optimizes a variety of applications. Including, HTTPS, Citrix, Netapp SM and SV, Exchange, etc.
Tim Slater | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tim Slater
Manager, Corporate Services and Information Systems
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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
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  • 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
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Anonymous
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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.
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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.
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We felt our value and price for Riverbed Steelhead blew the competition out of the water.
KW
Kevin Walgren
Technology Lead
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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
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  • Files now open a lot quicker, at near local speeds.
  • We are able to respond to customers quicker as we can get access quicker.
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