Cost saving and best in performance
What do you like best?
We did not find any difference between hardware product and VM series appliance of PAN in terms of functionality and performance. We are getting same level of performance and also able to use all the PAN OS feature that we can use on Hardware appliance. VM product always have great advantages as compare to hardware product e.g. easy installation and deployment, no physical wiring, easy backup, easy recovery are some examples. We also like its support to various hypervisors as well as cloud integration.
What do you dislike?
I personally do not find any technical dislike, but yes PAN should work on their VM licensing and make it easy, currently it is so complicated and hard to understand. Apart from them I do not have any dislike from the product as we are using it from last 5 years are very happy with the performance of product.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Well no doubt PAN products are very expensive products because of their best in class technology so first evaluate your business need and conduct POC, work on the ROI then decide you should go for PAN or not. Without working on all such factors it maybe a case where you will not get any ROI from PAN product.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
In some scenarios Hardware products can not be deployed or not suited best e.g. cloud and areas where we do not have much space to have many hardware devices. So it helps alot to deploy at our cloud network as well as in some plants where we have very limited IT infra due to space issues.
