End of Sale for SG hardware and UTM licenses

Many of our customers and readers are unlikely to be surprised by this news. For us, the countdown for UTM has been running for quite some time and reached zero on April 2.

We deliberately chose April 2 to publish this post so that no one would take it for an April Fools’ joke. 😅

Back at the beginning of 2021, we announced the end of support for UTM and are now closing this chapter for good by removing all related products from our website.

I will spare you any words of nostalgia for UTM. I know there are still many hardcore fans who continue to adore the system, and I was once one of them. However, times and requirements have changed, and Sophos has actually had a different focus for years. For this reason, the UTM OS is no longer being further developed, only maintained.

For years now, we have been guiding our customers along Sophos’ new path and have migrated many SG firewalls to XG or, more recently, XGS.

Important: Of course we will not simply abandon our existing customers who are still using an SG firewall and have so far not wanted to migrate to an XGS firewall. On request, we will be happy to have licenses renewed with Sophos right up to the bitter end. 😝

To conclude, I would like to emphasize once again that only we at Avanet will no longer offer SG hardware or UTM licenses. Sophos itself continues to list these products; the product will certainly keep working until the end of 2025 and probably for a few years beyond that.