Akamai Guardicore Segmentation vs Nutanix Flow Network Security comparison

Akamai and Nutanix are both solutions in the Microsegmentation Software category. Akamai is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.0, while Nutanix is ranked #5 with an average rating of 9.7. Akamai holds a 27.3% mindshare in MS, compared to Nutanix’s 6.0% mindshare. Additionally, 87% of Akamai users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Nutanix users who would recommend it.

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Nov 4, 2024

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation and Nutanix Flow Network Security both focus on network security with different methods. Akamai holds an edge in micro-segmentation and visibility, while Nutanix excels in user-friendly virtual networking.

Features: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation specializes in micro-segmentation, fast policy application, and high visibility. It integrates well with different network settings and supports a wide array of operating systems. Nutanix Flow Network Security is known for its simple deployment and management, quality APIs, and solid micro-segmentation in a virtual framework.

Room for Improvement: Akamai users call for lower licensing costs and better integration with additional tools, plus more flexible dashboards and improved automation. Nutanix Flow could enhance networking features and disaster recovery integration. Both need advancements in customization and management.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Akamai Guardicore Segmentation supports diverse environments including public and hybrid clouds and is praised for excellent technical support. Nutanix Flow offers consistency, mainly for on-premises and public clouds, but needs to improve its support responsiveness.

Pricing and ROI: Akamai Guardicore is seen as expensive but offers protective features that clients value positively in terms of ROI. Nutanix Flow is competitively priced with clear subscription plans, though more pricing tiers for various customer sizes are desired. Akamai shows significant ROI with data protection and lower resource demands, while Nutanix offers affordability without missing crucial features.

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Categories and Ranking

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Ranking in Microsegmentation Software

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud and Data Center Security (1st), Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPP) (11th), Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) (4th)

Nutanix Flow Network Security

Ranking in Microsegmentation Software

5th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Microsegmentation Software category, the mindshare of Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is 27.3%, up from 24.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nutanix Flow Network Security is 6.0%, down from 8.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Microsegmentation Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Akamai Guardicore Segmentation	27.3%
Nutanix Flow Network Security	6.0%
Other	66.7%

Microsegmentation Software

Featured Reviews

Uday Varma

Solution Architecht at Inspira Enterprise

Offers granular control and ease of policy creation with features like telemetry and micro-segmentation but incident tagging is missing

Our customers use the solution for micro-segmentation within the data center or cloud environments. One customer uses it for their on-premises infrastructure, deployed at the code level across their massive network. Another customer uses it in a data center to monitor microsegmentation for their 500-node workload. Moreover, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation has helped our customers manage and secure traffic between different applications or workloads. Earlier, they were using VMware NSX-v, which offered good logging for distributed services on an analytical level. However, Akamai Guardicore Segmentation provides them with better overall visibility and granular control over-segmentation, even for inter-application and inter-routing traffic.

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Gus Thompson

IT Principal Analyst at Pima Community College

Offers great integration capabilities and helps design a disaster recovery plan

My company is still determining how the product has improved network visibility. My organization is still actively developing the product. There are many things my company is doing in the background to make sure that our VMs come up. My company deals with Nutanix Cross Hypervisor Disaster Recovery, so we are moving from an ESXi or VMware to Nutanix AHV, meaning that my company is crossing over from hypervisor technologies and leveraging Nutanix to maintain the networks at our DR facility. The most valuable feature of the product in enhancing the security posture stems from the micro-segmentation provided by the product, but I think that it is a functionality in its early stages. The product's micro-segmentation features are being developed to be made robust against technologies such as NSX from VMware and other hypervisor-dependent technologies such as Guardicore. I can't say that the product has given my company any additional features yet, but we hope that the tool will provide us with additional functionalities in the future. The product's micro-segmentation features seem to be on par with the other technologies in the market when it comes to its ability to isolate workloads. I haven't noticed any improvements in my company due to the automation capabilities of the product, especially since everything is done manually in our organization because we know the application very well, and we also know how we want to protect it. I am sure the product has automatic features, but we haven't used them in our company. There has been a positive impact due to the integration capabilities of the product with the other solutions in our company's IT infrastructure. I recommend the product to those who plan to use it, especially those who use Nutanix AHV as a hypervisor. It would be a good choice to work with the account rep in your company so that you can get a system engineer to help you walk through the majority of the deployment and setup phases since the documentation has certain shortcomings. I rate the overall tool a ten out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable feature is the visibility of processes and connections."

"Its deception features are great, providing a rich telemetry of lured origins, and are a great resource for any active defense strategy."

"The tool is a complete package that offers many features like visibility. You can get a graph with real-time workflows and visibility into server-to-server communication. We get visibility into many things happening within our environment."

"This tool greatly helps in understanding the footprint of the attacks."

"I found the solution to be stable."

"Guardicore makes its own rule set automatically, so we can work fast when creating a rule set."

"We like the centralized management of the firewalls. Until we installed Guardicore Centra, we managed all our firewalls individually, so making changes was complicated, difficult, and time-consuming."

"The tool's most valuable feature is its visibility."

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"Nutanix Flow has a lot of data protection features. It's also valuable for operations and management. It's a big solution that works well with different solutions and is suitable for most business cases."

"Nutanix Flow Network Security is a simple solution that is usable, easy to understand, and easy to deploy."

"Flow Network Security's most valuable features are user-friendliness, the console, and policy creation."

"They also introduced that they develop API first and the rest follows."

"We appreciate the fact that this solution allows us to segregate two virtual machines that are in the same cluster."

"It allows for policies that enable complete visibility and traffic control."

"The network view was excellent as it allowed us to expand the server view and visualize all connections it made within the environment. This was particularly useful in identifying the path of our data and not just its location within the data center."

"Nutanix Flow is straightforward to install. You only need to select a checkmark that you want to enable Nutanix Flow."

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Cons

"I would rate the stability a six out of ten, where one is low and ten is high stability."

"They can maybe improve their customer service just because they are kind of a small organization, and customer service isn't as big as others such as VMware."

"Kubernetes is not installed in the way we need it."

"Incident tagging could be improved. Other vendors offer semi-automatic tagging, which Guardicore doesn't yet have."

"In our version, when using the terminal server, we cannot exclude user tasks for each session."

"Needs more customization of honeypots and a vaster catalog of systems able to be mimicked."

"The product needs a few features like enhanced user policies and payload-level inspection to improve the offering."

"It would be very helpful for beginners if the solution had more windows to help with the terms inside instead of going to the documentation."

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"The documentation offered by the product is an area with certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"Last time I used it, it was not handy to see or to analyze traffic logs."

"We would like the reporting functionality of this solution to be improved."

"The most difficult part is the configuration of the initial blueprints."

"Nutanix Flow's networking features could use some improvement. Also, I don't know if it's currently supporting load balancing or not."

"I would rate Flow Network Security's stability seven out of ten - it could be improved."

"While the graphical interface of Nutanix Flow Network Security could have been improved, and some of the reporting features needed extra work, the product's features were similar to VMware's NSX. The difference lay more in the presentation and user interface."

"For customers who are running Nutanix Flow and AHV, the largest area for improvement is in the disaster recovery environments. To automate the populate of rules from one side to the other side in case of disaster you report everything on the disaster recovery site, and you have all the rules automatically applied. This was something that was being built when I left Nutanix. It might already be available. Additionally, the usability of the rules editor could improve."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"GuardiCore has made some new changes to the license now. We've seen monthly and annual licenses based on a subscription. We have a few clients that pay anywhere from $25,000 a year."

"Guardicore Centra provides better value for money than NSX, was the other solution that we looked at, which was too expensive for what it does."

"Compared to the pricing we were seeing from both Illumio and Edgewise, Guardicore was very competitive."

"The price is the same as other products in the market. There's no price argument to choose one or the other product, it will cost the customer approximately the same."

"Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is expensive."

"The customer would complain about the cost."

"This is not a cheap solution but you have to consider the bigger picture, which is what it is giving you."

"The pricing is too high."

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"On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten."

"The product is available for free use."

"This model is very accessible to implement."

"There are different licensing models."

"There is an annual subscription to use this solution. There is a 60-day trial to use the solution, it gives you time to decide if you want to continue using the solution."

"Flow Network Security is available on a three-year license, with annual renewals of the maintenance fee."

"In comparison to other options available in the market, I would rate their pricing as very competitive, probably a two or three out of ten for cost."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	9

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	4

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Guardicore Centra?

I would rate the pricing a six out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. I know other micro-segmentation tools like Cisco or Illumio, and so I think they are in the middle.

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What do you like most about Guardicore Infection Monkey?

Initially, I liked the telemetry part. But later, we used the microsegmentation features that we were able to deploy and found that they really stood out from other vendors. It allows us to see mi...

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What needs improvement with Guardicore Infection Monkey?

When we have more than one interface, we can only have one policy for both interfaces. Normally, you have assets with a production interface and a server interface that are only for management. But...

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What do you like most about Nutanix Flow?

Nutanix Flow Network Security is a simple solution that is usable, easy to understand, and easy to deploy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nutanix Flow?

There are different models like Nutanix AOS Pro or Ultimate license. The prices are different, but it's not in the same price range as Cisco ACI, for example.

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What needs improvement with Nutanix Flow?

Last time I used it, it was not handy to see or to analyze traffic logs. As a Check Point partner as well, we have some more expectations to log in. Probably, it's possible to forward all the traff...

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Comparisons

Illumio vs Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Compared 43% of the time

VMware NSX vs Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Compared 10% of the time

Cisco Secure Workload vs Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Compared 9% of the time

Cisco ACI vs Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Compared 3% of the time

Xshield vs Akamai Guardicore Segmentation

Compared 2% of the time

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VMware NSX vs Nutanix Flow Network Security

Compared 76% of the time

Illumio vs Nutanix Flow Network Security

Compared 10% of the time

Cisco Secure Workload vs Nutanix Flow Network Security

Compared 3% of the time

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Also Known As

Guardicore Centra, GuardiCore

Nutanix Flow Microsegmentation

Overview

Akamai Guardicore Segmentation is a software-based microsegmentation solution that provides the simplest, fastest, and most intuitive way to enforce Zero Trust principles. It enables you to prevent malicious lateral movement in your network through precise segmentation policies, visuals of activity within your IT environment, and network security alerts. Akamai Guardicore Segmentation works across your data centers, multicloud environments, and endpoints. It is faster to deploy than infrastructure segmentation approaches and provides you with unparalleled visibility and control of your network.

Akamai

Flow Network Security is a stateful, distributed, microsegmentation firewall. It is provided as part of NCI Ultimate or as part of the optional Security Add-On package for NCI Pro.

Nutanix

Sample Customers

Santander, Frontier Airlines, OpenLink, Intermountain Healthcare, Cellcom, BancoBASE

JetBlue, International Speedway Corporation, Volkswagen SAIC, Brighton and Hove City Council, Foresters Financial, Janus International Group, Cloud Comrade, Serco

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