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 virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"Easy to implement, and it is also reliable."
"It is simple to manage, and there are a lot of functionalities in the same box."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are remote access, web filtering, and IPS."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the different types of profiling. It has been the most effective for me. The WAF and the antivirus profile are the most effective in network protection."
"It's great for capturing the traffic and troubleshooting it."
"Fortigate's most valuable feature is that it doesn't need a push policy when writing rules."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the analytics."
"Operations have been flawless."
"The customer care center of Fortinet is good. For all the requests that we have done, they work as fast as possible, so this is a good point for Fortinet."
"The ROI is good since I get free support."
"The most valuable features are network security, VLAN, network protection, and encryption are very valuable to us."
"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."
"The product is quite user-friendly so we didn't have a lot of issues that needed to be addressed."
"I really like that it's internationally deployable."
"The VM it's very quick for deployment. If we need to have a POC for a customer, if we don't have any hardware physically at our premises, at our store, in our office, we can download the VM from Fortinet and install all the VM to their environment in order to run it. If we have a customer that says "let's start tomorrow" we are able to do that in a way that's not possible with a hardware version."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"The search tool needs improvement. It's very difficult to search for policies right now."
"It should come integrated or have its own type of network monitor tool in a module. There should just be one package, and you are good to go."
"Reporting is limited to providing an external appliance for improving the reporting capabilities of the FortiAnalyzer. It does not offer a central management and is also sold separably as an appliance."
"The pricing could be reduced or include the first year warranty."
"The customization could be improved. Cisco, for example, is much better at this. They need to work to be at least as good as they are."
"There were quite a few problems with the stability of the system."
"I would like to see more advanced developments of a wireless controller in the future."
"There are SD-WAN network monitoring, SD-WAN features, Industrial Databases, Internet of Things, Detection, etc., however, we do have not licenses for those features. We thought that if you bought a product, you should have all of the features it offers. Why should you need to make so many extra purchases to enable features? They should have one price for the entire offering."
"Right now, we have two data centers that are a thousand kilometers apart. It would be nice to be able to string them together."
"We have had some stability issues."
"If I could add one feature, it would be free security profiles."
"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."
"The product is satisfactory. I haven't identified any features to improve, and based on the number of deployments I've handled with FortiGate-VM, there haven't been any complaints from the customer's side."
"The solution could use very well-defined support for resellers."
"The price model is not transparent by any means and should be made more clear. What's included in the packages is often not very obvious."
"There are certain GUI features that should be present but are not."
"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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