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."The main thing is obviously notifications about alerts, getting ahead of the curve to make sure that we do not have system going down, or if it is down we get to know it earlier."
"I can use it to detect whenever things go wrong on my network."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"Some of the most valuable features are it's highly scalable, the carrier is great, and if something has SNMP, it can monitor it. It's a great network fault management solution."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"It covers a lot of different types of hardware. It can do a lot and saves us time."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch."
"The intel we get from Fortinet is its most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the stability, it's actually tailored for that."
"It's user-friendly."
"One firewall box can contain various top-of-the-line services that are packaged together for easy administration."
"The ability to manage everything from the cloud is going to be the most valuable by far with this solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has security features like DDoS protection and UTM."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"It's easy to use."
"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."
"The visual is a little archaic."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"The interface is not nice and needs to be improved."
"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."
"It needs better integration with other CA products."
"Our consultant was four months on-site doing Spectrum setup and working through issues."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"ACL is an area with shortcomings that needs to be improved."
"Things are moving increasingly towards hardware agnostic appliances, an area in which I would like Fortinet to be more focused and fast moving with that product line."
"The solution could improve by having a Russian interface."
"The interface and dashboards should improve in Fortinet FortiGate Cloud. Other solutions have better graphical interfaces."
"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 licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."
"They're still trying to digest that Meru acquisition and need a plan."
"It would be better for us if Fortinet provided a private cloud, and they should provide more security on the public cloud. There are some minor issues with security with the public cloud. For example, anyone with a link can access the public cloud."
DX Spectrum is ranked 1st in DX NetOps with 115 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 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 ThousandEyes, 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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