We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two DX NetOps solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"It is easy to navigate."
"We were able to standardize the internal processes across all internal departments, resulting in almost an elimination of non-standard process flows through our organization."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"It creates transparency and makes everything work by being more transparent."
"Stability has been good. We really have not had any issues."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has valuable firewall, SSL VPN, and web filtering features."
"It's quite easy to use, and it's easy to find the necessary information from the web."
"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."
"One firewall box can contain various top-of-the-line services that are packaged together for easy administration."
"The intel we get from Fortinet is its most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable FortiGate Cloud feature is logging. It's there seven days a week, and there is no hard limit on logs or size restrictions. This much capacity will show up for that seven days. FortiGate Cloud offers many other valuable features like Fortinet Secure Gateway, SASE, and the Fortinet Security Fabric."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the IPS, SSL Wireless, and VPN. Additionally, packet inspection and point-to-point VPN application control are useful."
"The solution offers good network performance and efficiency."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"There's a little bit of complexity to the initial install because you're dealing with operating systems. You have to make sure all the prerequisites are done, anti-virus exceptions, etc. Then there's the bringing it up and then there's discovery of the network and setting that up. It takes time."
"OS monitoring needs to be better developed, as well as their services, e.g., cluster monitoring, URLs, etc."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"I would like to see better scalability, and maybe, a more intuitive user interface. "
"I would like to see more reporting from the analysis improved in the future."
"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."
"The licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."
"We are seeking a solution that can monitor our network traffic running through 17 firewalls in Malaysia and Indonesia. We want a solution that can record and monitor all the logs from all the firewalls. We want to consolidate all our firewalls into one portal so we can monitor all the activities from all the firewalls."
"The command-line interface could definitely be improved in future iterations. It's lacking right now."
"The robustness of the software could be improved."
"As with any IT vendor, there are software issues."
"The only area that requires improvement is the login reports. We aim to integrate it with our local mobile service provider."
DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps with 115 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 57 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and Nagios XI, whereas Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) and Fortinet FortiPortal. See our DX Spectrum vs. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud report.
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