We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and Hillstone CloudEdge based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Netgate, Fortinet, OPNsense and others in Firewalls."The most valuable features are the policies, filtering, and configuration."
"It is user friendly, and has all the features you need."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"The UTM feature is quite good. FortiAP is easy to deploy because both Fortigate and FortiAP are under the same brand. Otherwise, you need to do more work on the configuration."
"The FortiGate controls the user's activities and maximizes my bandwidth use overall."
"Anti-Spam web content filterinG."
"FortiGate is flexible and easy to use."
"We are a visual effects company, and there have been a number of high profile security issues in our industry. This has brought us to a higher standard of security, which our clients are very keen on these days."
"Overall, it's an excellent solution."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"It is highly scalable because it has a mesh architecture that allows consistent policies."
"The ROI is good since I get free support."
"Its interface is good. It comes with a lot of features, and its performance is also very good."
"The most valuable feature is the WAN optimization."
"Use of this product does not require daily interactions."
"This product is affordable and it's a good, high-performance appliance."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"It claims it does DLP, but the degree and level of controls are very basic."
"Some of the filtering is not robust, you can escape it with a VPN. Some of the users bypass some of the filters. It catches some but it also misses some, that area could be improved. It's functioning reasonably but there's room for improvement in that area."
"There is a lot of improvement needed with SSL-VPN."
"It is quite new for us, and we need to go more in-depth into the monitoring tools. It provides different features that we need to do what we want. So far, it is okay for us. In terms of improvement, in the future, they can provide a faster implementation of features. Some of the features are first available in other solutions. Fortinet sometimes takes a little bit longer than other solutions, such as Check Point, to implement new features."
"They should improve high CPU and memory usage that occurs."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve if it had a cloud-managed solution."
"WAN load-balancing could be a lot better at detecting when a link is poor or inconsistent, and not just flat out dead."
"Technical support could be better. You don't always get the level of help you need right away."
"We face some issues with the IPsec connection during replication."
"Deployment can be difficult and they could dispense with reliance on FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer."
"The tool does not have a good name in the market, consisting of enterprise-class businesses, making it an area where the product lacks and needs to improve."
"Price-wise, it could be slightly better, however, if you compared it to other makes and models of equal category, it is generally cheaper."
"The management tools should be more user-friendly."
"Now they do have the ability to pop up a command line, which is nice, however, the fact that you can't do everything within the GUI is probably a problem."
"The product needs to focus on cloud-nativeness and pricing."
"We have encountered certain issues with the bandwidth in respect of the security layer."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0. 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 Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Netgate pfSense, whereas Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with .
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