We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs Fortinet Fortimanager based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The solutions are similar. Users of both say deployment is easy, like that each products are highly stable and scalable, and have good experiences with technical support. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud users are happier with the pricing of the product than Fortinet Fortimanager users.
"It is a solid solution for business environments. Investing in this technology can yield significant cost and security enhancements."
"Our customers implement this solution so that they can be assured of security in their environment."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are ease of use and the simplicity of maintenance and configuration. Additionally, the modularity of the solution is very easy to handle, it is convenient."
"It's quite easy to use, and it's easy to find the necessary information from the web."
"This is a vast system that includes a lot of features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the protection of internal and remote systems."
"The solution is quite stable. I haven't had issues with it crashing on me. I don't recall running into any bugs or glitches. It's very reliable so far."
"The solution is very stable."
"The most valuable feature is the central configuration for firewall policies."
"FortiManager's best feature is the integration of administrator users."
"It can scale well."
"FortiManager's ability to scale is good."
"It's a scalable product."
"The product is a combination of management and monitoring from the same interface."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiManager is the ease of manageability and policy-pushing functionality."
"The SSL visibility could be better."
"There are European and US clouds and sometimes we mix them up. The solution should make determining the clouds more clear, or make one cloud instead of having separate ones."
"However, the absence of certain features like CLI is a drawback."
"It is currently durable, but they may be able to improve it further. They can adapt Cisco technology because of its durability."
"The licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."
"If you need to scale, you do need to trade up to a new Fortinet solution."
"GUI access could be improved. It should be simpler to access everything from the portal. Once we log in to the portal, we should be able to access all the Fortinet Cloud options."
"If more products convert their configuration to Fortinet configuration, it will be easy for migration."
"The CLI could be enhanced."
"The solution should be more open to other products."
"Wizards could be improved in pushing policies."
"The dashboard could use some improvement."
"The GUI could be updated. It's not as good as it could be and is something the solution should improve in an upcoming release."
"Issues arise when customers experience unstable electricity or poor grounding conditions."
"The areas that need improvement are implemenation and support. In terms of implementation, it mainly needs clear documentation."
"I would like to be able to manage other products such as Endpoint and FortiAnalyzer through FortiManager. That is, the integration with other solutions needs to be improved."
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 57 reviews while Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2, while Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF), Fortinet FortiPortal and ExtremeCloud IQ, whereas Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, Zabbix, AlgoSec and Fortinet FortiWeb. See our Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs. Fortinet FortiManager report.
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