We performed a comparison between Barracuda CloudGen Firewall and Meraki SD-WAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"It is a good source for firewall protection."
"The initial installation is very straightforward."
"The GUI is good."
"We use the FortiGate Sandbox to detect zero-day vulnerabilities, such as anomalies or malware, that are unknown and have not yet been discovered."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"Its performance in fulfilling our requirements has been satisfactory."
"TINA (Transport Independent Network Architecture) VPN features - Allows automatic VPN configuration with little or no input from the tech. Drag and drop lines between Barracuda units and the VPN is built automatically."
"The product is foolproof. It has done everything that we have needed with the amount of email that we receive, and it handles it quite well."
"Most people are using enterprise applications remotely, and there is no license for SSL VPN, or in other words point-to-site. There is no limit on that. On other devices there is a specific limit and you have to pay per use for SSL VPN."
"The features I find most valuable is the VPN and the fact that we can apply our policies to the program."
"Single device, multiple functions - I do not need to purchase a web application firewall, a proxy server, a VPN device and so many others because these are all built in to this one device."
"Its ability to block incoming attacks is valuable. Its logging, traffic monitoring, and VPN capabilities are also valuable."
"One of the big benefits of the product is that it allows you to manage big environments with fewer resources."
"One of the most important parts is, there is auto-upgrade of the hardware every fourth year."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki SD-WAN is the Auto VPN."
"Meraki SD-WAN is stable and the performance is good."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki SD-WAN is its user-friendly interface."
"The solution has many features available."
"The solution is pretty reliable."
"The dashboard is user-friendly. It's very simple to use."
"The centralized console manageable from the cloud is one of the advantages."
"The seamless end-to-end setup is really what makes it beautiful; that's why Meraki is good."
"The initial setup and configuration are not intuitive and require training."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"While FortiGate is cheaper than most other solutions, we're seeing increased license renewal costs. Most of our clients are asking for more significant discounts because the price is going up."
"Fortinet already improved FortiGate, but in the current market, many brands of security devices have improved together. Fortinet still needs to catch up with market standards. Fortinet is lacking in features in comparison to competitors."
"Fortinet FortiGate is a stable solution. However, my issue is the performance only. When I use all the profiles, this affects the performance. From the beginning, I should have had a better sizing of the box."
"The reports are very basic."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"The setup is pretty complex and not easy to implement."
"While using Barracuda CloudGen Firewall, we encounter issues with VPN profiles for Windows."
"When you login from some sources, there is no feature in this box which can log you out after a certain timeout."
"The initial setup is a bit complex."
"The technical manuals, at times, have images that don't match the actual screens and are not always as clear as they could be on the configuration."
"To start working with spam, it takes a while because the product has to see that multiple emails are coming in with all the spam. If it could reduce that amount of time, then we would reduce the amount of users who are receiving spam."
"I would like to see the connection improved."
"The price could be better."
"Command line could be more user friendly."
"The granularity could be improved."
"The VPN client could be improved."
"There is still some work to do when it comes to AI."
"It's a matter of cost and expenses that we may take some issue with."
"We'd like features that provide more transparency when there are issues. Right now, it's hard to get clarity on problems. We need more visibility."
"Meraki SD-WAN could improve by adding wireless access time-scheduled and overall capabilities."
"When there is an issue, I find it difficult to figure out what is going wrong because the logs do not provide as much information as solutions from HP."
"Meraki SD-WAN had trouble prioritizing traffic for VoIP calls."
Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is ranked 26th in Firewalls with 35 reviews while Meraki SD-WAN is ranked 1st in Software Defined Networking (SDN) with 60 reviews. Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is rated 8.2, while Meraki SD-WAN is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda CloudGen Firewall writes "Feature-rich, robust, and easy to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Meraki SD-WAN writes "Very stable security, great service, and the best for VPN management". Barracuda CloudGen Firewall is most compared with Netgate pfSense, Sophos XG, OPNsense, Azure Firewall and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Meraki SD-WAN is most compared with Cisco SD-WAN, VMware SD-WAN, Omada Cloud SDN, Cradlepoint NetCloud and Prisma SD-WAN.
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