We performed a comparison between Palo Alto Networks VM-Series and SonicWall TZ based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The solution can scale well."
"The most valuable feature is the bundled subscription, which is IPS, TV and web filtering."
"Fortinet FortiGate's ease of management is the most valuable feature."
"The SD-WAN is the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet has a very good solution for Secure SD-WAN. One very good feature is that they have robust and simple FortiOS through which they provide all solutions. That's their strength. There's not much complexity involved with the Secure SD-WAN solution of Fortinet as compared to Cisco's solution, which has a lot of flexibility but complexity also comes with that flexibility."
"It's very good and very stable for businesses. It works very well."
"FortiGate improved our security. It's one of the best hardware firewalls."
"A strong point of FortiGate is that the graphical interface is complete and easy to use, especially if we think there is a list of operations that we are able to perform inside."
"A solid operating system with all the necessary data center security features."
"The interface with Panorama makes it very easy to use."
"It has excellent scalability."
"The solution enables organizations to enforce policies."
"Palo Alto’s Panorama centralized management system simplifies our security posture based on our requirements. Instead of manually pulling logs, then generating them into readable formats, it gives us the console in a readable format to view."
"It allows us to see all our traffic to properly secure it and only allow what is needed through the firewall."
"In the newer version, there are 3850s, all of them are scalable. They fit better into the medium or small businesses."
"App-ID and User-ID have repeatedly shown value in securing business critical systems."
"The solution is stable."
"SonicWall TZ is a very cost-effective solution that provides good security."
"It's been very easy to implement and deploy."
"It's a very cost-effective solution."
"The best thing about the product is the very good threat prevention output."
"It lets me monitor in live time if someone is 'hogging' bandwidth."
"Good site categorization and application controls."
"The most valuable feature is the protection available, and then ease of use and flexibility."
"Fortinet could improve the windows opener or the virtual IP solutions for opening windows. The virtual IP settings need improvement as firewalls are trending in new development directions."
"The sniffing packets or packet captures, can be simplified and improved because it's a little confusing."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"Price, of course, can always be more competitive or better."
"Its reporting capabilities can be improved. It should have some out-of-the-box reporting capabilities and some degree of customization. The basic reporting that it currently has is not sufficient to create more usable reports. It needs some sort of out-of-the-box reporting. They try to make customers purchase FortiAnalyzer for this kind of reporting, which is an additional cost. Other firewall vendors, such as SonicWall and Sophos, provide this sort of reporting without any additional cost."
"Some features of Fortinet FortiGate are actually fee enabled that are inconvenient for deploying in production. Other issues relate to isolation with Cisco products and your server."
"There are problems with the custom reporting of the unique traffic. The data is there, but it is too difficult for us to extract."
"We don't know how it will scale once we start putting more load on it."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
"The solution must improve Zero Trust integration and use cases."
"It has to be more scalable for the deployment of VMs on the cloud."
"Its web interface is a bit outdated, and it needs to be updated. They can also improve the NAT functionality. We have had issues with the NAT setup."
"We have run into some issues with scaling and limitations associated with some of the configurations."
"It is not very easy to scale up the solution."
"The lack of support is having me look into other solutions to replace SonicWALL."
"The price could be better for us in Bolivia."
"User interface could be improved."
"The dashboard needs to be improved."
"We would like to improve the rules configuration in SonicWall TZ. Sometimes the rules don't work."
"The technology in this particular version is very old."
"It could probably be more user-friendly, and it could be more scalable with releases and subscriptions."
"The market seems to be going to a cloud-supported, new generation of firewall products. I think that's probably going to be important to us, the next time around."
Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 10th in Firewalls with 53 reviews while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Juniper SRX Series Firewall, whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and WatchGuard Firebox. See our Palo Alto Networks VM-Series vs. SonicWall TZ report.
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