Compare Cisco Catalyst 8000V Edge Software vs. Critical Stack

UTunnel Secure Access delivers Cloud VPN, ZTNA, and Mesh Networking solutions to ensure secure remote access and smooth network connectivity. ACCESS GATEWAY: Our Cloud VPN as a Service enables quick deployment of Cloud or On-Premise VPN servers. Utilizing OpenVPN and IPSec protocols, it facilitates secure remote connections with policy-based access control, allowing you to easily establish a VPN network for your business. ONE-CLICK ACCESS: The Zero Trust Application Access (ZTAA) solution transforms secure access to internal business applications such as HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, and RDP. Users can access these applications through web browsers without needing client software. MESHCONNECT: This Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) and mesh networking solution provides granular access controls to specific business network resources and supports the creation of secure interconnected business networks. SITE-TO-SITE VPN: The Access Gateway solution also allows for the setup of secure IPSec Site-to-Site tunnels. These tunnels can connect UTunnel's VPN servers with other network gateways, firewalls, routers, and unified threat management (UTM) systems.

ThreatLocker is a Zero Trust security platform that stops cyber threats by allowing only approved applications and activity to run. It removes standing admin rights, enforces least privilege, and gives organizations precise control over software behavior. With capabilities like application control, ringfencing, and device and storage restrictions, it prevents ransomware, zero day exploits, and unauthorized actions before they can execute. Purpose built for IT and security teams, ThreatLocker offers centralized management and full visibility across endpoints, users, and applications. It helps shrink the attack surface, restrict lateral movement, and meet compliance requirements with detailed auditing. Quick to deploy and easy to manage, the platform includes a large maintained application library and simplified approval workflows, enabling stronger security with less operational burden while keeping the business running smoothly.

Site24x7 provides unified cloud monitoring to support IT operations and DevOps within small and large organizations. The solution monitors real users' experiences on websites and apps from both desktop and mobile devices. DevOps teams can monitor and troubleshoot applications and servers, as well as network infrastructure, including private clouds and public clouds, with in-depth monitoring capabilities. Monitoring the end-user experience is done from more 100 locations around the globe and via various wireless carriers.

Auvik Network Management is a network management and monitoring software designed to empower IT professionals with deep visibility, automation, and control over their network infrastructure. This innovative platform is trusted by businesses of all sizes to streamline network operations, enhance security, and optimize performance. One of Auvik's standout features is its real-time network mapping and discovery capabilities. It automatically generates interactive, visual maps of your network topology, allowing you to easily identify devices, connections, and potential bottlenecks. This invaluable insight helps in planning and optimizing network architecture for maximum efficiency.

NetCrunch is a next-gen, agentless infrastructure and traffic network monitoring system designed for hybrid, multi-site, and fast changing infrastructures. It combines real-time observability with alert automation and intelligent escalation to eliminate the overhead and limitations of legacy tools like PRTG or SolarWinds. NetCrunch supports agentless monitoring of thousands of nodes from a single server-covering physical devices, virtual machines, servers, traffic flows, cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP), SNMP, syslogs, Windows Events, IoT, telemetry, and more. Unlike sensor-based tools, NetCrunch uses node-based licensing and policy-driven configuration to streamline monitoring, reduce costs, and eliminate sensor micromanagement. 670+ built-in monitoring packs apply instantly based on device type, ensuring consistency across the network. NetCrunch delivers real-time, dynamic maps and dashboards that update without manual refreshes, giving users immediate visibility into issues and performance. Its smart alerting engine features root cause correlation, suppression, predictive triggers, and over 40 response actions including scripts, API calls, notifications, and integrations with Jira, Teams, Slack, Amazon SNS, MQTT, PagerDuty, and more. Its powerful REST API makes NetCrunch perfect for flow automation, including integration with asset management, production/IoT/operations monitoring and other IT systems with ease. Whether replacing an aging platform or modernizing enterprise observability, NetCrunch offers full-stack coverage with unmatched flexibility. Fast to deploy, simple to manage, and built to scale-NetCrunch is the smarter, faster, and future-ready monitoring system. Designed for on-prem (including air-gapped), cloud self-hosted or hybrid networks.

Around 25 million engineers work across dozens of distinct functions. Engineers are using New Relic as every company is becoming a software company to gather real-time insight and trending data on the performance of their software. This allows them to be more resilient and provide exceptional customer experiences. New Relic is the only platform that offers an all-in one solution. New Relic offers customers a secure cloud for all metrics and events, powerful full-stack analytics tools, and simple, transparent pricing based on usage. New Relic also has curated the largest open source ecosystem in the industry, making it simple for engineers to get started using observability.

Grafana Labs delivers the leading AI-powered observability platform, built around Grafana—the most widely adopted open source technology for dashboards and visualization. Recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms, Grafana Labs supports more than 25 million users and thousands of organizations worldwide, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Grafana Cloud is the open observability cloud, designed to help engineering teams observe everything and solve anything. Built on open source, open standards, and open ecosystems, it unifies metrics, logs, traces, and profiles in a single platform for full-stack visibility across applications, infrastructure, and digital experiences. At the core is the open-source LGTM stack: Grafana for dashboards and visualization, Mimir for metrics, Loki for logs, and Tempo for distributed tracing. Native OpenTelemetry and Prometheus support allow teams to ingest telemetry from virtually any environment, while hundreds of integrations connect existing tools and data sources without costly rip-and-replace migrations. Grafana Cloud combines powerful analytics with AI-driven observability. Grafana Assistant helps engineers investigate issues, explore telemetry, and troubleshoot faster. Adaptive Telemetry identifies the data that matters most and aggregates the rest, helping organizations reduce telemetry costs while preserving valuable insights . With solutions for Kubernetes monitoring, application observability, digital experience monitoring, incident response, synthetic monitoring, and performance testing, Grafana Cloud delivers a complete observability platform that scales with your business.

Secure your organization from costly data breaches while meeting essential compliance requirements, such as ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA. Our software-based VPN solution is easy to deploy alongside your existing systems, giving you a powerful and adaptable tool for securing your enterprise network. Our VPN Professional plan allows your team to connect securely to your local networks and cloud-based services. And with granular segmented control over who can connect to dedicated VPN servers and Gateways (logical groupings of dedicated servers), you can ensure your staff can access the resources they need (but only what they need). All of our business plans use robust industry-standard AES-256 or ChaCha20 encryption to ensure your data remains secure. You can further strengthen your organization's security with enforced two-factor authentication (2FA) and seamless login through single sign-on (SSO) with SCIM support for automated user provisioning. Our global high-performance (mainly 10 Gbps) server network is one of the largest in the world, and is part of the trusted Proton ecosystem — a suite of fully open source, end-to-end encrypted services built by the creators of Proton Mail and designed specifically to keep your business secure.

We help companies secure their Internet connections and networks. Our VPN service provides additional protection for your communications. This is done by encrypting all traffic incoming and outgoing to ensure that no third party can access your confidential information. Secure your organization from security breaches. Remote access is secured. Simplify your business network security. Access region-specific online content anywhere in the world

SuperOps is a next-generation, all-in-one PSA-RMM platform designed for ambitious MSPs looking to scale efficiently. Infused with AI-driven intelligence and smart automation, SuperOps offers a comprehensive suite of features, from IT documentation to project management, ensuring MSPs have everything they need in one place. Say goodbye to juggling multiple disconnected tools—SuperOps empowers MSPs to move beyond outdated, fragmented systems with a cloud-native platform built for simplicity and productivity. Experience a seamless, modern solution that streamlines operations and makes managing IT services effortless.