Cisco Prime [EOL] vs Fortinet FortiGate Cloud comparison

"Cisco Prime is helpful as it provides us with real-time monitoring. This allows us to be proactive in our environment."

"The hardware Cisco provides is excellent. It's a well-made product."

"It gives you the ability to upgrade switches remotely, schedule the upgrade time, perform backups, and monitor the health of all networks."

"The solution's configuration management tool is amazing because it centralizes and pushes configurations which saves a lot of volume and effort."

"The most valuable feature of Cisco Prime is the heat maps."

"The solution provides data that allows us to time travel through logs and perform remote operations or troubleshooting."

"Enables oversight in order to tweak and tune."

"What I found most beneficial from Cisco Prime is that it gives you an insight into what your network does, even when you're not actively monitoring what's going on with your network."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use."

"The solution responds more quickly to attacks or issues in the field."

"The most valuable FortiGate Cloud feature is logging. It's there seven days a week, and there is no hard limit on logs or size restrictions. This much capacity will show up for that seven days. FortiGate Cloud offers many other valuable features like Fortinet Secure Gateway, SASE, and the Fortinet Security Fabric."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud provides effective threat protection by blocking unwanted IP addresses and websites, and it is a cost-reduction product."

"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is the logs are stored longer on this cloud version. If you have the on-premise version you will not be able to store the logs for more than one or two months."

"The security features, for example, URL filtering, AMP, and advanced threat protection, are very valuable."

"Fortinet products are just as good as any other competitor, with better management capabilities."

"We use the solution for routing and cloud security. We have multiple offices nationwide, all connected through the MPRS network, which is terminated at our FortiGate firewall. We consolidate our networks, filter packets, and segment our network through this firewall. My company has around three lakh firewalls."

"The solution has issues with real time monitoring of devices and NetFlow such as inadequate visualization for reports, sources, and destinations."

"The reporting feature of Cisco Prime should be improved."

"If you look at some of the wireless site-survey tools that are available in the commercial space, Cisco should include similar solutions, which would help our on-plant engineers when they're doing a site survey."

"If you think about a centralized monitoring system, Cisco Prime is not good because it does not support third-party vendors like Palo Alto or FortiGate."

"Cisco Prime could improve the notifications in the system. Having more details about what is happening would be useful, such as traffic numbers or who is connected. We can see them through the firewall controller, but it would be better if you can see them from one place."

"The overall management capabilities of Prime need to be improved."

"It should be able to monitor Palo Alto, Juniper, and Check Point products - not just Cisco solutions."

"The solution is not easy to configure."

"The licensing is a little bit confusing and needs to be improved."

"We need some integration or communication between the endpoint and the firewall."

"The initial setup is considered to be difficult."

"All Fortinet products have many security flaws, and new versions often have large security holes."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud should improve its pricing. Also, its support is slow in Vietnam."

"It would be much better if Fortinet FortiGate Cloud allowed third-party integrations like multi factor-authentication."

"When it comes to technical support, the problem we have found is that if an issue comes, it takes a day to get everything resolved. It could be faster. They can be better at optimizing how they answer tickets in terms of response times. There must be ways to make the process more streamlined. It would make it easier for their clients."

"Fortinet could improve FortiGate Cloud by providing better integration with third-party applications and features."

"The cost is quite high."

"We update the license every five years."

"You need to get special quotes from the company for each order."

"I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"The solution is not inexpensive but is worth it for large-scale environments."

"If we have a license for Cisco DNA, we can use the same license for Cisco Prime."

"Cisco Prime is an expensive solution."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is a cost-effective solution. I rate its pricing a six out of ten. Pricing depends on the firewall model. If the firewall model's pricing is high, the solution's pricing also increases."

"The pricing is competitive."

"The pricing is mid-ranged, it's not very expensive but it's not the cheapest or most affordable in the market."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is cheaper than VMware and Cisco in the Bangladeshi market. Its pricing is reasonable."

"If you purchase any Fortinet firewall, they will give you FortiCloud for 100 GB for free. You can access Fortinet FortiGate Cloud freely up to certain limits."

"We pay around $19,000 a year and do not pay for extra technical support."

"The solution is relatively cost-effective compared to alternatives."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is more inexpensive than other vendors."