We performed a comparison between Chef and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Configuration Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It has improve our organization through the remote management of non-domain joined devices."
"A great solution for anyone wanting a modern endpoint device management solution."
"We are a remote company, and the product helps us manage the global endpoints. It helps us natively manage the endpoints in the cloud from anywhere."
"It has helped with compliance. It has helped to ensure that devices comply with the organization's policy. If they are not compliant and secure, they cannot access the resources."
"I would say the biggest benefit is the single-pane view. There's no jumping around multiple UI's to do your overall management."
"We already use a lot of Microsoft products in our company, and therefore, it made sense to also use this product."
"Intune's unified endpoint management platform is invaluable."
"I can reach devices or computers over the internet. I don't need to worry about the network connectivity between the offices. I can manage any device. That is the most important part."
"It has been very easy to tie it into our build and deploy automation for production release work, etc. All the Chef pieces more or less run themselves."
"You set it and forget it. You don't have to worry about the reliability or the deviations from any of the other configurations."
"If you're handy enough with DSL and you can present your own front-facing interface to your developers, then you can actually have a lot more granular control with Chef in operations over what developers can perform and what they can't."
"This solution has improved my organization in the way that deployment has become very quick and orchestration is easy. If we have thousands of servers we can easily deploy in a small amount of time. We can deploy the applications or any kind of announcements in much less time."
"Stable and scalable configuration management and automation tool. Installing it is easy. Its most valuable feature is its compliance, e.g. it's very good."
"Deployment has become quick and orchestration is now easy."
"It is a well thought out product which integrates well with what developers and customers are looking for."
"The scalability of the product is quite nice."
"We use the solution as a firewall."
"The most valuable feature is the inspection. It inspects before we have any traffic stops intrusion."
"The solution works well for remote or branch offices."
"The hardware is reliable, and their support is excellent."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is easy to use."
"It's easy to use."
"The ability to manage everything from the cloud is going to be the most valuable by far with this solution."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has valuable firewall, SSL VPN, and web filtering features."
"The installation is very easy. However, to be able to configure it you will need special knowledge, such as training or self-studies to have a proper level of security. There are many settings one has to understand before being able to implement Microsoft Intune."
"Microsoft Intune fails a lot when it comes to device compliance."
"They can improve their MAM policies a little bit more and make them more granular. They should include more granular group policies. They are there, but they need to be more granular. Its stability should also be improved. It is not very stable. Sometimes, it shows some inconsistencies across tenants."
"It would help if administrators could pinpoint the exact location of a stolen device to help law enforcement retrieve it and apprehend the suspect."
"There should be more support for macOS. Even though macOS is supported by Intune and Microsoft is working very hard to get more features into Intune to manage macOS, that's one thing they can give a lot more attention to."
"It would be helpful if there was proactive remediation."
"Cost is the biggest factor for us right now. Microsoft Intune and AD P1 together in a bundle is a good thing to have, but it is very costly compared to other products in the market. Otherwise, Microsoft Intune is the best."
"The main disadvantage seen today is regarding Linux clients. We have a lot of development resources that have Linux on their clients, and we can't manage them on the same platform, as we do with other clients such as macOS and Windows. So, it should have support for Linux clients. It should also have better support for macOS."
"I would like them to add database specific items, configuration items, and migration tools. Not necessarily on the builder side or the actual setup of the system, but more of a migration package for your different database sets, such as MongoDB, your extenders, etc. I want to see how that would function with a transition out to AWS for Aurora services and any of the RDBMS packages."
"Since we are heading to IoT, this product should consider anything related to this."
"It is an old technology."
"I would like to see more security features for Chef and more automation."
"Vertical scalability is still good but the horizontal, adding more technologies, platforms, tools, integrations, Chef should take a look into that."
"If only Chef were easier to use and code, it would be used much more widely by the community."
"Chef could get better by being more widely available, adapting to different needs, and providing better documentation."
"There is a slight barrier to entry if you are used to using Ansible, since it is Ruby-based."
"Some configuration changes would be helpful."
"FortiGate Cloud could be improved with increased granularity for our control."
"They're still trying to digest that Meru acquisition and need a plan."
"The interface and dashboards should improve in Fortinet FortiGate Cloud. Other solutions have better graphical interfaces."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud could improve security. Some of my customers do not trust on-cloud solutions."
"There are European and US clouds and sometimes we mix them up. The solution should make determining the clouds more clear, or make one cloud instead of having separate ones."
"Everything related to the graphical user interface should be improved."
"The platform's reporting and analysis capabilities need improvement."
Chef is ranked 16th in Configuration Management with 18 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 reviews. Chef is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Chef writes "Useful for large infrastructure, reliable, but steep learning cureve". 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 ". Chef is most compared with Jenkins, AWS Systems Manager, Microsoft Azure DevOps, Microsoft Configuration Manager and SaltStack, 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 Chef vs. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud report.
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