Both of our flagship products — Access Server and CloudConnexa — have just been recognized by two of the most respected peer-review platforms in enterprise software, PeerSpot and G2.
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Why does this matter? In both cases, the recognition comes from the people whose opinions matter most: the practitioners who actually deploy, manage, and live with these products every day.
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PeerSpot: Access Server named a 2026 Customer Choice Award winner
OpenVPN Access Server has been named a 2026 Customer Choice Award winner by PeerSpot, recognized as a Tech Leader in the Enterprise Infrastructure VPN category.
The PeerSpot Customer Choice Awards aren't based on analyst opinion, marketing spend, or vendor-submitted briefs. They're built on in-depth feedback from verified practitioners — engineers, admins, and architects who talk openly about real deployment experience, the tradeoffs they've navigated, and what it's actually like to run Access Server in production. That kind of grounded, peer-validated feedback is rare, and we don't take it for granted.
A few themes show up again and again across the reviews:
- Easy to stand up — reviewers consistently describe the initial setup as fast and straightforward, often measured in minutes rather than days.
- Stable and low-maintenance — once it's configured, it tends to stay out of the way.
- Flexible authentication — built-in support for SAML, LDAP, RADIUS, PAM, SSO, and 2FA gives teams options for integrating with Google Workspace, identity providers, and existing directory services.
- Cross-platform reach — clients across Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
- Fair, transparent pricing — practitioners repeatedly favorably compare Access Server's licensing model against heavier enterprise alternatives.
You can read the full set of reviews on our PeerSpot profile.
G2 Spring 2026: a strong showing across both products
Right alongside the PeerSpot recognition, the G2 Spring 2026 Reports just dropped, and both Access Server and CloudConnexa came out with armfuls of awards across multiple categories and regions.
Access Server: Self-hosted Business VPN
Access Server earned ten G2 Spring 2026 awards in the Business VPN category, including:
- Leader (overall Grid® Report)
- Leader — Mid-Market
- Leader — Small-Business
- EMEA Regional Leader
- Europe Leader — Small-Business
- High Performer — Enterprise
- Momentum Leader
- Best Relationship — Small-Business
- Most Implementable — Mid-Market
- Users Love Us
Being named both a Leader and the Most Implementable product in Mid-Market, and earning Best Relationship in Small-Business, reflects something we've worked hard for: a product that's powerful and lasts over time.
CloudConnexa: Cloud-hosted Business VPN, SDP, and Zero Trust Network Access
CloudConnexa, our cloud-delivered networking and zero-trust platform, picked up 11 G2 Spring 2026 awards spanning three categories:
Business VPN
- Leader (overall)
- Leader — Mid-Market
- Leader — Small-Business
- EMEA Regional Leader
- EMEA Regional Leader — Small-Business
- Europe High Performer — Small-Business
- Momentum Leader
- Users Love Us
Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP)
- Leader
- High Performer — Mid-Market
Zero Trust Network Access
- Best Estimated ROI — Mid-Market
The Zero Trust recognition is especially meaningful. Best Estimated ROI in Mid-Market is calculated from a combination of the estimated time to achieve ROI and the time to go live; in other words, customers report that CloudConnexa pays off quickly and is stood up quickly. That's exactly the promise we make.
A quick refresher on the products
If you're new to one or both, here's the short version.
Access Server is a self-hosted business VPN built on the open-source OpenVPN protocol. It gives organizations a secure, encrypted tunnel for remote workers, site-to-site connectivity, and hybrid-cloud access — without the complexity or lock-in of traditional enterprise VPN appliances. It handles certificate management, client configuration, user provisioning, and routing, with enterprise authentication via SAML SSO, MFA/2FA, LDAP, RADIUS, and PAM. It runs on-prem, in the cloud, or as a virtual appliance, and scales from a handful of users to thousands.
CloudConnexa is our fully cloud-delivered networking and security platform. It's designed for teams who want zero-trust network access, secure internet access, site connectivity, and application access without managing the underlying infrastructure themselves. CloudConnexa replaces the old "everything routes through one VPN concentrator" model with a global, multi-region network you can configure in minutes — making it a natural fit for distributed workforces, multi-cloud environments, and organizations modernizing toward zero trust.
Together, the two products cover the full spectrum: Access Server for teams who want full control over their own VPN infrastructure, CloudConnexa for teams who want a managed, cloud-native zero-trust platform.
To the teams behind both products: thank you
Recognition like this doesn't happen because of a single release or a clever campaign. It happens because of years of steady, careful engineering work, which often goes unseen.
To everyone working on Access Server and CloudConnexa — the engineers shipping improvements, the folks maintaining and hardening the codebase, QA running through edge cases, support engineers helping customers through tricky deployments, the documentation writers making all of this usable, and the product managers sweating the details — congratulations, and thank you. Every "easy setup" comment, every "it just worked" review, every Best Relationship and Most Implementable badge traces back to the craft you put into these products.
And to our customers…
To the practitioners who took the time to leave honest, detailed reviews on PeerSpot and G2: thank you. Your feedback shapes how we prioritize what comes next. Keep it coming.
Here's to what's ahead in 2026.
Read the full set of verified user reviews on our PeerSpot profile.
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