We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Juniper vSRX 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 SD-WAN feature is the most valuable. This feature evolved from link load balancing. It has helped us in terms of our uptime and privatizing applications whenever we experience an outage. The SD-WAN feature has been a plus for us. Two-factor authentication has allowed us to add more users in terms of remote working. We have two-factor authentication for remote workers to authenticate them before they get on the network."
"It's very fast and easy to configure."
"It's an easy solution to set up."
"The user interface is relatively easy. The devices are easy to deploy and figure out when you have experience with other security appliances."
"The email protection and VPN features are the most valuable."
"Their reliability and their policy of pre-shipping replacements when a unit has failed."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"Virtual Domains (VDOMs) are a feature that we found valuable."
"I've found the UTM features and the SD-WAN to be most valuable."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"Primarily, the VPN solution is most valuable. It allows you to have more flexibility in terms of what is there on the end-user device, and what is not there. You can check and make sure that they're current. It has more flexibility than just a straight VPN solution. It works really well. It has the features that 99% of people need."
"Its interface is good. It comes with a lot of features, and its performance is also very good."
"It's a relatively simple product that is easy to use. It's not overly complex."
"The thing that I like the most is that they're very willing to work with us to resolve issues that they haven't taken care of before in their product."
"While the stability maybe isn't quite to the level of Cisco, it is a very cost-effective solution. It's cheap compared to Cisco."
"The most valuable features are the web proxy for protection and web gateway for deployment."
"The dashboard, customization, API, and pricing are good."
"The authentication part is seamless and easy for people."
"It's basic functionality is probably the most valuable feature."
"It is easy for me to go in and update settings, make changes, or add/remove rules or security."
"It is deployed on the customer site, and we manage the firewalls on this side."
"The product's scalability is good, and my company has 150 users."
"The technical support has been good."
"It's a very powerful solution and the firewalls offer high performance"
"In the balance between links feature normally you can just choose one option to balance. It would be better for the solution to have more than one option, preferably three."
"The solution's framework needs to be frequently updated in order to have a stable solution."
"FortiGate should have a better way of detecting and managing the system memory because otherwise if the memory is too low, a system restart is required."
"For the migration, everyone has a firewall in use and I am selling Fortinet. Typically, I am replacing another firewall. Previously, there was a tool available to convert configurations from one firewall, such as Palo Alto, to Fortinet, but this tool is no longer free. If it could be made free again, it would be very beneficial."
"The solution can have more features in a single box that can be multi-applied to integrate everything."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding FortiAnalyzer to its solution, we should not have to use another solution. FortiAnalyzer can provide more detailed information."
"The command line is complicated, and the interface could be better."
"FortiOS is not simple."
"Support could be improved a little."
"Sizing can be challenging for customers interested in using Fortinet FortiGate-VM."
"I have worked on some of the largest and smallest solutions that Fortinet sells and they all scale really well."
"The reporting is not as good as it is with other firewalls and it should be improved."
"In the first two releases of FortiOS 5.6, we had some trouble with the SSL VPN service. Sometimes it stopped working, and the IPS daemon too."
"FortiGate's application load balancing has to be improved. They need to improve a lot on the load balancing and RAF side. They are far behind Citrix in that regard."
"They could provide more integration options with different platforms."
"The pricing is expensive."
"he stability could be improved."
"In the next release, I would like to see improvements made to the GUI because it isn't very good."
"The solution's GUI needs improvement."
"They could provide support for cloud deployments."
"The biggest downside of Juniper vSRX is its pricing, which may be too high for smaller organizations. While it's a decent solution, the cost may limit its accessibility to smaller customers."
"We experienced some technical issues during implementation"
"We worked with Cisco's support and Juniper's support and there are some differences, to be honest, Cisco is more available and is more competent at addressing our cases."
"The security feature must be improved."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Juniper vSRX is ranked 27th in Firewalls with 33 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Juniper vSRX is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Juniper vSRX writes "Fast with good usability and fairly scalable". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas Juniper vSRX is most compared with Juniper SRX Series Firewall, Azure Firewall, Meraki MX, Cisco Secure Firewall and Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. Juniper vSRX report.
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