We performed a comparison between Hillstone CloudEdge and SonicWall TZ 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 of the solution are SD-WAN, filtering testing applications, web filtering, and the new VPN."
"It has improved our security capabilities."
"The solution is extremely reliable."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate is load balancing. It can provide central management and VPNA. Additionally, it has enhanced our security environment."
"The VPN is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the policy routing and application control."
"The most valuable feature is the VDOM, which allows the customer to have multiple firewalls in a single campus."
"Its stability is the most valuable."
"The solution is very easy to download and configure. The initial setup was very easy. The technical support is very good."
"No negative impression of the scalability."
"It protects against intrusion while allowing needed access."
"I've found the technical support to be helpful."
"The feature with SonicWall that I have found most valuable is that all the models have the same interface. We don't need to learn different interfaces in the smaller or bigger models."
"We like their interface very much. It's pretty easy to use."
"The most valuable features are security and technical support."
"The VPN is quite useful for us, as well as the ATP."
"It's a very cost-effective solution."
"The visibility of the network can be better. The GUI can be improved for better visibility of the network flow. Other solutions have better GUI in terms of network visibility."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"I could not configure sFlow from the FortiGate graphical user interface. I realized that the sFlow configuration is available only from the CLI, and discovered that sFlow is not supported on virtual interfaces, such as VDOM links, IPsec, or GRE."
"Web security solutions can be improved."
"One area for improvement is the performance on the bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The price of FortiGate should be reduced because there are some other leading products that are cheaper."
"I would like to see improvements with the antivirus and IPS as they are not working properly all the time."
"One area for improvement is the performance on bandwidth demands for smaller devices, as well as better web filtering."
"The solution needs more granular level reporting on system usage."
"I would like to see a SonicWall integration with the DLP tool, this would be interesting. Data Loss Prevention integration."
"Although the pricing is good, it could always be lower. If we get to pay less, we're happier."
"There can be an improvement in analysis and reporting. We need enhancement on the reporting side."
"The technology in this particular version is very old."
"The solution's cost needs improvement."
"The solution should provide some additional ports."
"In general, the company needs to think contingently and integrate more security options."
"I think content filtering is the area this product should improve. It's a little tricky to get put in correctly."
Hillstone CloudEdge is ranked 32nd in Firewalls with 1 review while SonicWall TZ is ranked 12th in Firewalls with 78 reviews. Hillstone CloudEdge is rated 10.0, while SonicWall TZ is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Hillstone CloudEdge writes "A stable solution that is easy to configure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall TZ writes "Has efficient user access control feature and good technical support services ". Hillstone CloudEdge is most compared with , whereas SonicWall TZ is most compared with Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense, Meraki MX, SonicWall NSa and Cisco Secure Firewall.
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