@storageninja said in Barracuda vs Meraki - firewalls:
@scottalanmiller said in Barracuda vs Meraki - firewalls:
From Wikipedia: "SD-WAN is an acronym for software-defined networking in a wide area network (WAN). An SD-WAN simplifies the management and operation of a WAN by decoupling (separating) the networking hardware from its control mechanism. This concept is similar to how software-defined networking implements virtualization technology to improve data center management and operation."
Notice that what it IS does not guarantee or even suggest any of those things. You are working form revisionist marketing material and not what an SD-WAN actually is. Very dangerous because it makes it trivial for salesman to sell you an SD-WAN with you thinking that they sold you all this stuff, and get nothing. And they did nothing wrong, because they were being honest.
Or keep reading the wikipedia article and see that I was largely describing the feature section....
Yes, but you were describing possible features as defining characteristics which are wholly different things. That's how sales people trick customers all the time. Customer things X means Y, sales people know this is a common misconception, they promise X knowing the customers wants Y, customer is at fault for buying the wrong thing.
UTM and SAN are famously sold this way.
