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DX Spectrum vs Fortinet FortiGate Cloud comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

DX Spectrum
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
116
Ranking in other categories
Network Management Applications (6th), Network Monitoring Software (20th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (19th), Network Troubleshooting (6th), DX NetOps (1st)
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
74
Ranking in other categories
Firewall Security Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

DX Spectrum and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. DX Spectrum is designed for DX NetOps and holds a mindshare of 30.4%, down 46.3% compared to last year.
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, on the other hand, focuses on Firewall Security Management, holds 5.4% mindshare, up 5.0% since last year.
DX NetOps
Firewall Security Management
 

Featured Reviews

DickBaker - PeerSpot reviewer
Jan 19, 2024
An all-inclusive monitoring solution that adapts to emerging technologies
The product helps to correlate events.  The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability. DX Spectrum needs better documentation on its complex features.  I have been using the product since 2005.  I rate DX Spectrum's stability an eight point five…
OcheEluma - PeerSpot reviewer
Aug 2, 2024
Cost-effective platform with valuable security management functionality
I use the product as a security and networking gateway. I have deployed instances in Azure and AWS as virtual appliances, and my main use cases are for connecting VPNs, routing, and securing connections between the outside and inside of the environment The platform's most helpful features for…

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"This product provides good visibility into applications at the backend."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"​The stability of the product is key. It never breaks, really. The stability and reliability of the Spectrum product have been top-notch.​"
"The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The most valuable feature is automatic discovery."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The tool is a mature product, ahead of brands like Sophos, though not quite at the Palo Alto or Checkpoint level. I'd rate it nine out of ten for being cost-effective and offering features similar to high-end options."
"The main feature of FortiGate Cloud is that you don't need open ports for remote administration or management of FortiGate."
"The template will save time from being wasted on load balancing."
"The solution is quite stable. I haven't had issues with it crashing on me. I don't recall running into any bugs or glitches. It's very reliable so far."
"It is a solid solution for business environments. Investing in this technology can yield significant cost and security enhancements."
"It's user-friendly."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its ease of use."
"The installation is very simple."
 

Cons

"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"DX Spectrum needs to incorporate faster support."
"From a functionality perspective, the product is not doing what it should. Also, there are some concerns about the accessibility. I would appreciate additional out-of-the-box troubleshooting scripts, like templates for addressing various issues. Currently, when troubleshooting online, I need to create my scripts. It would be beneficial if the platform could provide pre-built scripts or templates to help automate certain troubleshooting tasks."
"We have a lot of different monitoring tools in the background, so orchestration has been a little bit of a challenge."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"It takes some time to learn how to use this solution."
"Fortinet needs to improve the FortiGate Cloud dashboards that provide information about logs. This type of solution presents a lot of technical complexity from a management standpoint, making it somewhat difficult to understand."
"There are European and US clouds and sometimes we mix them up. The solution should make determining the clouds more clear, or make one cloud instead of having separate ones."
"I think the tool has some limitations when one tries to scale up, making it an area where improvements are required."
"All Fortinet products have many security flaws, and new versions often have large security holes."
"They could improve the product features for telemetry and interoperability with third-party monitoring tools."
"I recommend that Fortinet FortiGate Cloud improve their rules for configuration with each other."
"I would like to see a SIEM bundled together with this because customers are looking into better reporting and more proactive security solutions."
"Fortinet could improve FortiGate Cloud by providing better integration with third-party applications and features."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"The price is good enough to expect an ideal solution. It's expensive."
"Currently, a perpetual license but some services are moving to a subscription"
"DX Spectrum's pricing depends on the license number. It is affordable."
"The price is very high."
"The product, support, and maintenance are all expensive, which is another reason that we are switching to another solution."
"It is expensive compared to other tools in the market."
"DX Spectrum's pricing is neither expensive nor cheap."
"The product cost varies based on company budgets, but for us, it's reasonably priced considering the value it provides."
"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 mid-ranged, it's not very expensive but it's not the cheapest or most affordable in the market."
"The pricing is competitive."
"The price of FortiGate Cloud is generally cheaper than other similar products."
"The costs are reasonable."
"We need to pay a yearly licensing fee for Fortinet FortiGate Cloud."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is more inexpensive than other vendors."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
16%
Computer Software Company
14%
Government
7%
Computer Software Company
22%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Government
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about DX Spectrum?
The solution's most valuable features are its integration with Broadcom tools and scalability.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for DX Spectrum?
We are a customer of Broadcom, we use a group license that covers various CA products, including DX Spectrum. The company purchases the licenses they need from this group license, and we do not hav...
What needs improvement with DX Spectrum?
Support from Broadcom could be better. Sometimes we wait a very long time for a solution to level three problems. Challenges and Limitations The only other challenge is the price, which is the main...
What do you like most about Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has valuable firewall, SSL VPN, and web filtering features.
 

Also Known As

CA Spectrum
FortiCloud, FortiGate Cloud
 

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Sample Customers

National Informatics Centre India, Banese, Olympus, AlphaServe Technologies, Sicredi
Black Gold Regional Schools, Amadeus Hospitality, Jefferson County, Chunghwa Telecom, City of Boroondara, Dimension Data
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