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.
"The solution is scalable because they have models that allow it to be right sized."
"FortiGate Cloud's most valuable feature is that it's 100% managed."
"I have found centralized administration, cloud UI, and visibility and security on all networks valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the inspection. It inspects before we have any traffic stops intrusion."
"The template will save time from being wasted on load balancing."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the stability, it's actually tailored for that."
"We like the availability of the hardware and the service that we get from FortiGate, as well as the kind of reach that they have as a part of their sales folks."
"We have found the most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the firewall and the VPN connection manager. I am not worried about any cyber attacks, the solution is secure and I receive daily summary reports."
"The solution is very stable."
"The solution has the best stability for application control and inspections."
"Fortinet FortiManager allows you to manage multiple FortiGate devices from a single console, and this is a valuable product feature."
"I appreciate the ability to connect via SSH through Fortinet FortiManager to the FortiGates I manage. This feature allows me to gather information about the interfaces without having to physically connect to the device. This is a convenient aspect that I find valuable."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiManager are the overall management it provides and its ease of use."
"I pushed templates from FortiManager to our site, and they were deployed successfully."
"The most valuable feature is the central configuration for firewall policies."
"The setup is very simple."
"The robustness of the software could be improved."
"The Linux version currently lacks some of the latest features, notably in the IPv6 tool stack, which is available for Windows clients."
"We needed to do some training to be able to implement Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and after the training, we did the implementation in-house."
"The solution should allow users to keep the data for longer than the current periods. I can't get any historic data after more than a month. I would like to be able to, after a year, look for trends from the past 12 months. It would make things much easier."
"The only area that requires improvement is the login reports. We aim to integrate it with our local mobile service provider."
"The licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud could improve security. Some of my customers do not trust on-cloud solutions."
"Its price should be better."
"Fortinet is releasing quite a lot of new versions and I would say that most of the versions are not well tested before they're pushed out. Even the new versions sometimes are a bit buggy before it's all correct."
"It requires a lot of resources. This is the main challenge."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
"FortiManager could improve by making it easier to port larger policy packages to the FortiGate firewalls. Sometimes, there's an issue when we install a big package of policies. If you have a couple thousand policies for FortiGate firewalls, it can take a few minutes to receive a response from the remote devices. It's only an issue when you're dealing with thousands of policies and installing them on a large number of devices."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"Setting up FortiManager can be complex because it involves changes from other devices and a lot of configuration."
"The solution should be more open to other products."
"Wizards could be improved in pushing policies."
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 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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