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Future of SG

JoergRiether

Hi,

we wanted to get proposals for new UTMs today and were informed by a German channel partner in astonishment that SG "maybe" can no longer be bought and that it would be over from the end of 2022.

I cannot imagine this with the best will in the world. Firstly, there is still no functional parity with XG in my eyes and secondly, there is no cleanly developed automatic migration process. Purely subjectively, I estimate the SG users at about 85% and the XG at about 15% purely quantitatively.

In this respect, this would be a wrong signal in my eyes, also for economic reasons.

Could Sophos please say something about this? Because if the SG is actually completely discontinued and the two reasons mentioned above are still valid, then we have to look around for something else.

Thanks

Joerg



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  • 0

    Hi.

    For my opinion, its just fair that Sophos would  announce there intention concerning the UTM, so we can plan our steps to the future.
    My license is valid until 5/2023.
    I surly need to know if it will work until then.
    i would be happy to see this product continuing, since XG is no yet something I could consider as FW for my organization.

    Goldy

  • 0

    Per their Lifecycle Policy, we wouldn't know EoL until 90 days before actual EoL for v9 (Sophos UTM & XG Firewall Lifecycle Policy)

    They are still maintaining 'No Declaration' for EoS/EoL for v9.

    So, it's not today.  Tomorrow doesn't look too good for an announcement either.  I wouldn't actually expect it until they get XG sorted out, even though they believe it to be the best thing since sliced bread, for a lot of us it's just soggy bread.

    OPNSense 64-bit | Intel Xeon 4-core v3 1225 3.20Ghz
    16GB Memory | 500GB SSD HDD | ATT Fiber 1GB
    (Former Sophos UTM Veteran, Former XG Rookie)

  • 0

    Hello,

    we replaced two nodes of our SG330 cluster with two new SG450 Nodes running on Sophos UTM 9.05-7 last weekend.

    The license is valid until April 2024. 

    On a german webinar they said that Sophos SG series with UTM has at the moment no EOL.

    The XG series is currently not of interest to us.

    Maybe we will choose the XGS series in a few years, when Sophos Firewall OS is a bit more fulsome ;-)

    https://www.sophos.com/de-de/products/next-gen-firewall/tech-specs.aspx#Overview 

  • 0

    Guys, you will want to consult Retirement Calendar: Sophos SG UTM, XG Firewall, Wireless, RED.

    Cheers - Bob

     
    Sophos UTM Community Moderator
    Sophos Certified Architect - UTM
    Sophos Certified Engineer - XG
    Gold Solution Partner since 2005
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  • 0 in reply to BAlfson

    Hi Bob.

    As usually - great to hear from you/

    As I see software UTM are still Active.
    Good news.
    Are there any plan for the future concerning UTM?
    Are they going to develop it (out of security update?)

  • 0 in reply to BAlfson

    Well, as i said in my other threads. It's also a trust issue.

    So can we trust this Calendar ?

    Or does the long period of no updates and the support issues tell a different story ?

    The result are rumors which will lead to the same effect ( long term) as an EOL. People will just walk away.

    no one will habe to deal with support issues, unclear product support and rumors about the status of the product in use.

    it would be a VERY good idea for sophos to get up with a pro statement for the UTM, because there are too many rumors already in the wild.

  • 0 in reply to Goldy_01

    I seriously doubt development will be a thing for SG and will be just patches.  Efforts are going more towards the XG series, and probably should be to get it up to a viable standard. 

    OPNSense 64-bit | Intel Xeon 4-core v3 1225 3.20Ghz
    16GB Memory | 500GB SSD HDD | ATT Fiber 1GB
    (Former Sophos UTM Veteran, Former XG Rookie)

  • 0 in reply to WolfgangS

    We have the same concern as an IT service provider with 80+ Sophos SG Customers.

    If Sophos wil stop SG we will switch to another Firewall maybe Fortigate. XG is not a stable or a usable Product in near future..

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