We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I have found centralized administration, cloud UI, and visibility and security on all networks valuable features."
"It is a solid solution for business environments. Investing in this technology can yield significant cost and security enhancements."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate Cloud's simple UX and UI designs and the fact that it is also a VPN solution for our clients. The solution is user-friendly."
"The solution offers good network performance and efficiency."
"The tool's GUI is user-friendly."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has valuable firewall, SSL VPN, and web filtering features."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the protection of internal and remote systems."
"It's user-friendly."
"Automation tracking is the most valuable feature."
"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is quite stable. If you set it up correctly with the right configurations and there are no hiccups during installation and deployment, it will be stable. I'd give stability a rating of eight out of ten."
"One of the most valuable features is that Ansible is agentless. It does not have dependencies, other than Python, which is very generic in terms of dependencies for all systems and for any environment. Being agentless, Ansible is very convenient for everything."
"Ansible Galaxy is helpful for roles and Git Submodules: No dependency in managing playbooks. Also, fact caching in redis for host/role grp information speeds up execution. Finally, variable management is easy."
"It is very easy to use, and there is less room for error."
"I like being able to control multiple systems and push out updates quickly with just a couple of clicks of a button and commands. I like the automation because it is a time saver."
"The API for exposing all our infrastructure services is the most valuable feature."
"There are no agents by default, so adding a new server is a matter of a couple lines of configuration (on a new server and the configuration master)."
"Fortinet could improve FortiGate Cloud by providing better integration with third-party applications and features."
"The console or demonstration tool could be more user friendly."
"The licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."
"When we're upgrading, it's sometimes quite challenging, especially firmware. We usually don't upgrade unless we have a bug, and we still feel it's not safe to react instead of being proactive. We often have some delays when updating FortiGuard, too."
"It is currently durable, but they may be able to improve it further. They can adapt Cisco technology because of its durability."
"Fortinet should simplify the licensing model. It's too complex for decision-makers to choose from the range of options. Handling the pricing model is a nightmare, so it's difficult to sell the solution."
"The SSL visibility could be better."
"Its price should be better."
"Documentation could be improved. Many times, if I'm looking for something, I have to Google it in a lot of places, then figure out what the best approach will be. There are some best practices documents, but they don't give you the information."
"We are very satisfied with what we have. From a management point of view, whatever makes it easier for my team to help customers write their own playbooks would be something very beneficial. Everything is going as a service. Creating playbooks can become much more consumer-oriented so that customers do not need to contact us to write their own playbooks."
"The support could be better."
"The scalability of the solution has some shortcomings."
"The communication on it is not probably where it could be. We could use some real life examples where we could point customers to them and say, "This is what you are trying to do. If you follow these steps, it would at least get you started a bit quicker.""
"If we have a problem with some file and we need to get Red Hat to analyze the issue and the file is 100GBs, we'll have an issue since we need to provide a log file for them to analyze. If it is around 12GB or 13GB, we can easily upload it to the Red Hat portal. With more than 100GBs, it will fail. I heard it should cover up to 250GB for an upload, however, I find it fails. Therefore, Red Hat needs to provide a way to handle this."
"It can use some more credential types. I've found that when I go looking for a certain credential type, such as private keys, they're not really there."
"Some of the Cisco modules could be expanded, which would be great, along with not having to do so much coding in the background to make it work."
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Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 57 reviews while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is ranked 1st in Configuration Management with 62 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2, while Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is rated 8.6. 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 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform writes "Makes it easy to build playbooks and saves time and resources". Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama and FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF), whereas Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is most compared with Red Hat Satellite, Microsoft Configuration Manager, VMware Aria Automation, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Microsoft Intune. See our Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform report.
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