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Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiPortal

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

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Firewall Security Management (10th)

OpenNebula

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

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Cloud Management (6th)

Mindshare comparison

Fortinet FortiPortal and OpenNebula aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Fortinet FortiPortal is designed for Firewall Security Management and holds a mindshare of 1.0%, up 0.9% compared to last year.
OpenNebula, on the other hand, focuses on Cloud Management, holds 6.8% mindshare, up 6.8% since last year.

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Cloud Management

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Andriejus Artamonovas

IT Specialist at DataBank

Offers reliable log retention and monitoring with prompt customer support

Fortinet FortiPortal ( /products/fortinet-fortiportal-reviews )'s most valuable feature as a free service is the log retention for at least seven days. It is useful for our service-providing company as I manage many clients and need reminders for UTM license expiries. The service comes bundled when buying licenses, providing these features for free. Fortinet cloud also allows for basic management such as monitoring expiries and storing logs from devices for a week if configured correctly.

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FOURES Jean-Philippe

Products Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Reliable, simple to manage, and offers great technical support

The support of VXLAN fits with our network management. Thanks to this we can propose mixed solutions using virtual resources on OpenNebula and bare metal servers hosted in our facilities linked to each other on the sale network. This use case is very useful when some applications need bare metal power (Kubernetes workers, huge databases, AI models computations, et cetera). The cluster management is very useful for splitting our different clusters (mutual vs dedicated). We can manage deployments and capacity planning without pain. The API is also really simple and it helped us to develop the Terraform provider to manage OpenNebula like any other cloud infrastructure.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"I am very comfortable with it, including it's reporting on threats and through its activities."

"It does a little bit better than some of the other products health-wise and updates-wise. It is really clear that a firewall is getting the signature updates in this timeframe. In some of the other products, usually, you have to go a couple of screens in to see that, but not so much in this product."

"The customer likes it for the graphs, the dynamics and the reporting functionality it offers."

"I like the tool's controller facility."

"The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable."

"From a scalability perspective, I found the solution to be completely fine...The solution's technical support is absolutely fine."

"The role-based access controls give us granular control over what features to present to a customer, and the integration into FortiAnalyzer is the most valuable feature."

"Everything works perfectly, and stability has not been an issue."

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"OpenNebula is easy to deploy and manage compared to other solutions like OpenStack."

"It's easy to integrate OpenNebula with our IT systems."

"The most valuable feature of OpenNebula is that it scales very well."

"OpenNebula has very good integration with SAP Storage."

"The solution provides templates for configurations that can easily be exchanged to VMs."

"The ability to use it almost like a public cloud for an organization is a big asset, as it will create a value proposition and can control costs in a great way."

"What's best about OpenNebula that people like is that it's easy to deploy. It's also easy to manage. It's interesting because people choose OpenNebula over other solutions because of the ease of management."

"The service feature appeals most to us, thus it is the most valuable."

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Cons

"Fingerprint access security would improve this solution."

"The tool should provide a 10-15 days extension for customers when their license expires."

"There can be defects in Fortinet FortiPortal when functioning at high temperatures."

"I find their logging a little bit trickier to manage. The logging of events is broken up into a lot of different categories. Instead of breaking up my logs into several different places, I personally like to have all the events in one spot and then filter them down. In particular, I find that troubleshooting on Fortinet takes a little bit longer just because of those functional breakups in the logs."

"The only complaint about Fortinet FortiPortal is the need for frequent firmware upgrades, as it requires constant updating due to potential security vulnerabilities."

"It's useful for us but if it had more educational reporting, it would good. It's not necessarily lacking but it's an area that could get better."

"The solution is more expensive than other products."

"So if it's more than a thousand, there could be some scalability issues. It becomes more complex as you go."

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"An area for improvement in OpenNebula is the number of features it has. The solution doesn't have that many cloud features compared to other solutions. You'd say, "Okay, simplicity over a rich feature list?" Some say, "No, I need a big machine or a cloud interface for my customers to manage resources. I don't have to go and do it for them." Some people do it that way, and it works, but I'd like to improve the limited features in OpenNebula."

"The front-facing API can be improved to support lots of requests when the platform is huge with lots of virtual resources."

"There are small things that are hard. For example, making sure that it is going to be installable on public clouds."

"They should add more features like object storage."

"Most of the competitors are offering some sort of billing software to transform their installation to work as a small-sized public cloud, but those offerings from OpenNebula are still missing."

"The web interface could be better. It's not very difficult to use, but there's room for enhancement."

"The storage feature that they have is a bit confusing."

"There are no payment gateways in OpenNebula."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"On average, it tends to be cheaper than other enterprise solutions."

"I am satisfied with the pricing for this solution."

"The licensing costs attached to the solution make it an expensive product."

"Fortinet FortiPortal is relatively expensive, but being an industry-leading firewall, it does come with a cost."

"Fortinet FortiPortal is not expensive."

"The solution is quite expensive."

"Fortinet FortiPortal is expensive in Pakistan."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"OpenNebula gives good value for money."

"We use the Community Edition, rather than the Enterprise Edition."

"VRA is very expensive but OpenNebula is free."

"OpenNebuoa has recently come up with a new subscription model that is economical and a lot of new customers are choosing this as it is an easy subscription model."

"The licensing for OpenNebula used to be free, but now it's no longer free. A customer contacted me asking to move to another provider because of the changes in the licensing terms for OpenNebula. I have no information on how much the OpenNebula license is because the customer pays for it, and I only do the integration."

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Computer Software Company

14%

Media Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

20%

University

10%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Fortinet FortiPortal?

The firewall and site-blocking features are valuable.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiPortal?

The cost of Fortinet FortiPortal is affordable, particularly for our subscription. Compared to other solutions like Cisco, it's significantly cheaper. I would rate the price as a six out of ten.

What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiPortal?

The only complaint about Fortinet FortiPortal is the need for frequent firmware upgrades, as it requires constant updating due to potential security vulnerabilities. With a proper license, the abil...

What do you like most about OpenNebula?

The live migration feature has been great and is something we use very often.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenNebula?

OpenNebula gives good value for money.

What needs improvement with OpenNebula?

The web interface could be better. It's not very difficult to use, but there's room for enhancement. Another area for improvement is the integration with hardware to manage the lower layer of the n...

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Overview

FortiPortal gives MSPs a comprehensive set of hosted Wi-Fi and security management features for FortiGate, FortiWiFi, and FortiAP products. With multitenancy, you can securely manage your customers through a centralized management console. This lets you respond quickly to customer requests and easily monitor customer networks. Our virtual appliance can be deployed on a hosted services infrastructure, allowing you to build highly-customized private-cloud services for customers.

Fortinet

OpenNebula provides the most simple but feature-rich and flexible solution for the comprehensive management of virtualized data centers to enable private, public and hybrid IaaS clouds. OpenNebula interoperability makes cloud an evolution by leveraging existing IT assets, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in.

OpenNebula is a turnkey enterprise-ready solution that includes all the features needed to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, and to offer public cloud services.

Sample Customers

Black Gold Regional Schools, Amadeus Hospitality, Jefferson County, Chunghwa Telecom, City of Boroondara, Dimension Data

Akamai, BBC, Fermilab, Terradue, Surf Sara, Produban, Netways, ESA, China Mobile, BlackBerry, Deloitte, Fuze, Telefonica, Trivago, Nokia, Encore Tech, Beeks.