Has anyone actually found Palo Alto’s Prisma* offerings to live up to the hype? Every vendor seems to be rebranding their platforms as “unified SASE” or “Zero Trust,” and Palo’s no exception. But in real-world deployments, all I keep hearing about are clunky integrations, opaque billing, and constant upcharges for basic features.
Is there something I’m missing here? Have any of you managed large Prisma rollouts that actually streamlined security operations, especially across hybrid or multi-cloud environments? Or is it just another “single pane of glass” marketing fantasy that falls apart once you move past the demo?
Let’s get some honest stories—what’s working, what’s not, and did you regret not going with a more specialized stack instead?