We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The best feature of Cisco DNA Center is the visibility page, where you can see everything on the dashboard, and you don't have to be a technical person to view the issues."
"Cisco DNA Center is a user-friendly solution."
"The most valuable features were the monitoring, maintenance, and configuration."
"The solution helps in user microsegmentation."
"The product gives a consolidated view."
"The monitoring features are very useful for network engineers."
"The most valuable features of Cisco DNA Center are wireless assurance and visibility."
"DNA Center is scalable."
"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 tool's GUI is user-friendly."
"FortiGate Cloud has many features that we like. For example, we're using it for security incident management, threat intelligence, and vulnerabilities check. It's integrated with several Fortinet tools like FortiAnalyzer and FortiSandbox controlled through FortiManager."
"We use the solution as a firewall."
"The functionality of the solution is excellent."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has good pricing compared to other firewall and security products."
"The solution is scalable because they have models that allow it to be right sized."
"We have found the most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud are the firewall and the VPN connection manager. I am not worried about any cyber attacks, the solution is secure and I receive daily summary reports."
"The tool's deployment is complex. It also needs to improve its GUI."
"There should be an option for automation of template deployment by using the stored data. It is not easy to save configuration information for lots of devices without using other tools. There should be a tighter, better repository of information that can be merged with the templates."
"Cisco could improve the security side of their solutions."
"The solution's technical support is an area with which my company's clients have a problem. Cisco doesn't provide good technical support unless a user has a big account that Cisco wants to retain."
"The task failure reporting or provisioning failure reporting could be a little bit better in the UI, with more information given to the user."
"We encountered issues with their response times, which had a big impact on our workflow."
"The solution’s security side could be improved."
"The features of Cisco DNA Center and Cisco Prime could have more parity."
"The capacity to execute the solution needs to be improved. I would like to see management and analytics included in the solution."
"The interface and dashboards should improve in Fortinet FortiGate Cloud. Other solutions have better graphical interfaces."
"The solution’s pricing and stability could be improved."
"If you need to scale, you do need to trade up to a new Fortinet solution."
"I recommend that Fortinet FortiGate Cloud improve their rules for configuration with each other."
"The command-line interface could definitely be improved in future iterations. It's lacking right now."
"Lacks some security against external attacks."
"I would like to see more reporting from the analysis improved in the future."
Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 36 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". 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 ". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, 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 Cisco DNA Center vs. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud report.
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