We performed a comparison between Meraki MX and Palo Alto Networks VM-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiGate are the rules and quality of service."
"Fortinet FortiGate's reliability is valuable."
"Security, SD-WAN, and Streetscape are valuable features."
"It does a lot for you for intrusion protection and as an antivirus. The threat management bundle is worth the money. You don't need another company to monitor your web traffic for you. You can do everything yourself on the firewall. You restrict your own black list for people on the firewall. You don't need to pay some other company for another product to do that for you. The firewall can do that for you. So, it's an easy-to-use product for people to be independent. They don't need to rely on other vendors to do what the firewall can do. They can do everything."
"Good performance, stability, and virtual domain ability."
"Fortinet FortiGate has many valuable features, such as IDS, and intrusion detection. It has security features that are in part with the technologies that are available in the market."
"The GUI is good."
"All of the features of Fortinet FortiGate are useful and the security protection is good."
"I think cloud management is key. The cloud management and support are the two things that make the product great."
"The simplicity of configuration is the most valuable feature of the solution."
"To me, the analytics feature is one of the most valuable in Meraki MX. I also find that it has good usability as it's cloud-based. Another valuable feature of Meraki MX is that it's simple to use and it's user-friendly."
"MX is easy to manage, configure and install."
"Dual WAN connections are greatly simplified and point-to-point VPNs automatically connect regardless of what WAN connection is active."
"The solution is easy to set up."
"Ease of management is the best thing about the solution."
"The most valuable feature of Meraki MX is I can manage the solution from anywhere remotely, I can throttle bandwidth, and create all rules. Additionally, it is secure for our customers."
"With the improved visibility we now have, the traffic is being properly monitored, which means that we are better able to manage it. These are improvements that we saw very quickly."
"We can monitor the traffic manually and detect threats. Additionally, we can block different IP addresses and URLs."
"The tool's cloud version makes application migration easy."
"The VM-Series reports how much bandwidth a particular IP is using. You don't need to regularly log into a website, like a Cisco command, to see what kind of ACL it's getting. There isn't an ACL use portal event. You can go there and see how much my ACL has been getting me."
"The most valuable feature is the CLI."
"The main advantage of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series stems from the fact that you can access it with the help of cloud services."
"I like the UI. Most things are accessible from the user interface and it is quite user-friendly. With respect to both VM-based firewalls and physical firewalls, it's easy to create updates."
"Centralized management is valuable because it allows us to configure settings in one location and apply them across all three locations."
"The support we receive when we need to upgrade is not satisfactory and has room for improvement."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve by adding enhancements to FortiMail, FortiSOAR, and FortiDeceptor."
"There can be more security in hybrid implementations. When a customer has a hybrid environment where some parts are in the cloud, we need a consistent security solution for such scenarios."
"In some cases, its initial setup could be hard for customers."
"I would like to see improvements in the product's application rules."
"Tunnel flapping was one of the major things I had seen wherein your internet link remains but your VPN tunnel is down. However, since I got a fix from the TAC team, I have not noticed it, but the customer complained a few times that they couldn't access the internet because of this problem."
"We had some issues in the beginning while setting it up, but after doing the firmware update, it is working fine."
"Lacks training for new features."
"We do not have account managers in our region for the solution. Some governments don't use the product since it is attached to the internet."
"The product could incorporate tools like ThousandEyes into the system so we can see things directly."
"The solution's pricing should be reduced."
"The product doesn't support route summarization and BGP dynamic routing protocol."
"MX can only be managed via a web interface, but I'm accustomed to using a CLI or a graphical interface. I would also like to see more reporting features. It doesn't provide enough information for me to know precisely about some clients."
"Could possibly use deeper configurations."
"It is very expensive."
"An area for improvement in Meraki MX is that it needs some provision, as supplying the unit through Cisco can be tedious at times, but as far as the product itself and its offerings, Meraki MX is five-star all the way."
"Palo Alto should update their documentation to make it more readable and provide easier-to-follow instructions through videos."
"We feel that the setup was complex. So, we asked the tech team about the setup process. They explained how to deploy it in the right way, which made it very simple."
"The product could be better in terms of performance than one of its competitors."
"There could be dynamic DNS features similar to Fortinet in the product."
"There are some delays that I have observed when my company communicates with Palo Alto's support engineers."
"There's room for improvement in terms of integration with the load balancer. It isn't like Fortinet, which has a load balancer built into its firewall. It is effortless to integrate within the load balancer-plus-firewall solution."
"The product's AIOps process needs improvement."
"The web interface is very slow, and it needs to be faster."
Meraki MX is ranked 3rd in Unified Threat Management (UTM) with 20 reviews while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 13 reviews. Meraki MX is rated 7.8, while Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Meraki MX writes "Great solution that can manage multiple devices (security, switches, APs, Cameras) with a single pane of glass". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series writes "Many features are optimized for troubleshooting real-time scenarios, saving a lot of time". Meraki MX is most compared with Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, Netgate pfSense and SonicWall NSa, whereas Palo Alto Networks VM-Series is most compared with Azure Firewall, Fortinet FortiGate-VM, Cisco Secure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls and Sophos UTM. See our Meraki MX vs. Palo Alto Networks VM-Series report.
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