On 2015-04-23 09:32, Antoine Benkemoun-Andre wrote:
That’s a very good remark :)
As I mentioned previously, we’re presently fully standardised on their appliances (physical so far) and have no particular complaints about it so we see no reason why we should not continue this way. In our opinion, standardisation has quite a lot of value.
You are talking about mono-culture and vendor lock-in. Those have little to do with standardization.
Also note that from a perspective of most admins, mono-culture is bad, as that means if one thing is broken, everything is broken, while diversity would mean that a bug might not affect all things.
On the flip-side though, having only one thing to support does mean less overhead; and if you are thinking about "cloud" firewalls, well, nothing much can be helped there IMHO...
Without requirements (which could include "team is 1 person big, hence, not going to bother with multiple things" or "we have zero budget" or "management already decided" ;) little anybody can say if something is good or bad though.
Greets, Jeroen