>push towards more cloud-managed switches Can you imagine? An entire enterprise's intranet, as opposed to just a single machine, as a possible attack vector for hackers? If possible, switches really should be managed locally, and I'm glad that's an option here, but damn, I just don't like the sound of this.
Yah because everyone hacks googles cloud or amazon cloud. I would argue local switches more vulnerable. Hell my local walmart keeps its server room door open because its "to hot in there to do any work". They do 100 million in sales a year and they don't even care about access to it.
Netgear has gone to complete shit over the last few years. Every product I've interacted with since ~2015 has been super buggy, lost support, or failed. Their support is awful, outsourced, and they have a policy of no refunds and pushing support contracts on people who need the most basic assistance (which is naturally non-refundable even if they can't resolve a problem...)
If you want cloud managed switches, look to Meraki. I’ve seen multiple demos and they look pretty slick. Though you need to be aware that your networking as a service needs a yearly renewal to cover all your networking devices so it’s no longer “buy it once and own it forever”.
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JoeyJoJo123 - Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - link
>push towards more cloud-managed switchesCan you imagine? An entire enterprise's intranet, as opposed to just a single machine, as a possible attack vector for hackers? If possible, switches really should be managed locally, and I'm glad that's an option here, but damn, I just don't like the sound of this.
imaheadcase - Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - link
Yah because everyone hacks googles cloud or amazon cloud. I would argue local switches more vulnerable. Hell my local walmart keeps its server room door open because its "to hot in there to do any work". They do 100 million in sales a year and they don't even care about access to it.Samus - Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - link
Netgear has gone to complete shit over the last few years. Every product I've interacted with since ~2015 has been super buggy, lost support, or failed. Their support is awful, outsourced, and they have a policy of no refunds and pushing support contracts on people who need the most basic assistance (which is naturally non-refundable even if they can't resolve a problem...)CoreLogicCom - Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - link
If you want cloud managed switches, look to Meraki. I’ve seen multiple demos and they look pretty slick. Though you need to be aware that your networking as a service needs a yearly renewal to cover all your networking devices so it’s no longer “buy it once and own it forever”.