Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform comparison

The compared Fortinet and Red Hat solutions aren't in the same category. Fortinet is ranked #4 in Firewall Security Management , with an average rating of 8.3, and holds a 5.4% mindshare in the category. Red Hat is ranked #1 in CM , with an average rating of 8.8, and holds a 16.6% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Fortinet users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Firewall Security Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

To learn more, read our detailed Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Report (Updated: May 2020).

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Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Firewall Security Management (4th)

Red Hat Ansible Automation ...

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Release Automation (3rd), Configuration Management (1st), Network Automation (1st)

Mindshare comparison

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is designed for Firewall Security Management and holds a mindshare of 5.4%, up 5.0% compared to last year.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Configuration Management, holds 16.6% mindshare, up 16.4% since last year.

Firewall Security Management

Configuration Management

Featured Reviews

OcheEluma

Vice President of Infrustructure at Core Technologies Limited

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…

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Muralitharan KS

Software Architect at OSELabs

Sep 13, 2024

Efficient server management and detailed reporting with flexible deployment capabilities

We are primarily using Ansible for automation purposes as it is a configuration management tool. It is utilized for various activities such as DNS activity, changes to web servers, virtual host settings, and other day-to-day tasks, all of which are templated in Ansible Ansible allows us to manage…

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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

"The VPN features are the most valuable."

"It's user-friendly."

"FortiGate Cloud's key features are the user interface and ease of access."

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

"FortiGate Cloud boosts productivity because one solution covers all the requirements, features, and management functions. Staff can operate it with less security knowledge, so it decreases the workload of our security specialists. Anyone with training on the console can manage access to users and devices based on standardized structural services."

"The most valuable features of the solution are the UTP feature, IPS antivirus, and web filtering."

"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has good pricing compared to other firewall and security products."

"The most valuable feature is the inspection. It inspects before we have any traffic stops intrusion."

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"There are no agents by default, so adding a new server is a matter of a couple lines of configuration (on a new server and the configuration master)."

"Installing it is a PIP command. So, it's pretty easy. It is a one liner."

"It was easy to read and learn. It is a YAML-based syntax, which makes it easily understand and pick up."

"The most valuable feature is that it is easy to build playbooks. The learning curve is not that steep."

"The user interface is well-built and very easy to navigate around."

"RBAC is great around Organizations and I can use that backend as our lab. Ingesting stuff into the JSON logs, into any sort of logging collector; it works with Splunk and there are other collectors as well. It supports Sumo and that helps, I can go create reports in Sumo Logic. Workflows are an interesting feature. I can collect a lot of templates and create a workflow out of them."

"We can manage all the configuration consistency between all our servers."

"The most useful features are the playbooks. We can develop our playbooks and simplify them doing something like a cross platform."

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Cons

"The platform's reporting and analysis capabilities need improvement."

"The improvements in pricing could make the product more accessible to a broader range of clients."

"Some configuration changes would be helpful."

"GUI access could be improved. It should be simpler to access everything from the portal. Once we log in to the portal, we should be able to access all the Fortinet Cloud options."

"In the email security modules they have in their UTM, maybe they can include more extended or expanded features for the email security where users can have their own portal login to release blocked emails, as an example."

"When we're upgrading, it's sometimes quite challenging, especially firmware. We usually don't upgrade unless we have a bug, and we still feel it's not safe to react instead of being proactive. We often have some delays when updating FortiGuard, too."

"We've not seen any areas for improvement."

"The console or demonstration tool could be more user friendly."

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"What I'm trying to figure out, personally, is, when doing mass updates, how I can parallelize that a little bit better. It seems right now - and maybe, it's a shortcoming on my end - that I run through one set of servers, and then another set of servers, ad then another set of servers, but it seems like I could throw a lot of these checks out. Different types of servers, like web servers and DB servers, if I could parallelize that a little bit to make everything run a little bit more efficiently, that would help."

"On the Dashboard, when you view a template run, it shows all the output. There is a search filter, but it would be nice to able to select one server in that run and then see all that output from just that one server, instead of having to do the search on that one server and find the results."

"The web GUI can be a little bit better. There should be a couple of more features."

"There should be consistency. I know that it is always changing, but when we are trying to get some users to do something in basic Ansible that they are not really interested in doing but their job requires them to do it, they start finding inconsistencies."

"The solution should add a nice self-service portal."

"The area which I feel can be improved is the custom modules. For example, there are something like 106 official modules available in the Ansible library. A year ago, that number was somewhere around 58. While Ansible is improving day by day, this can be improved more. For instance, when you need to configure in the cloud, you need to write up a module for that."

"The documentation for the installation step of deployment, OpenStack, etc., and these things have to be a bit more detailed."

"What we need is model-driven, declarative software infrastructure management. However, things tend to break with new versions, requiring a lot of work to fix…The focus should be on improving the support for Ansible in the area of AI coding."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"Unlike other firewalls, the cost of Fortinet FortiGate is low, and the functionality is nearly identical, which is why we chose it."

"The price of the product is approximately 10,000 Qatar Riyal ($2,750 USD), and another 10,000 Qatar Riyal for a three-year license."

"Fortinet has only an annual payment method. There is no monthly payment option. They have only one standard license without any additional features."

"The license does not include many of the features that are necessary, which means that you have to pay extra for them."

"We have a yearly license because we have a huge environment, so we need to upgrade regularly. We do it annually because quarterly updates would overwhelm the staff. Cisco was doing it at half-year intervals."

"The price of the solution is high compare to competitors."

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"It’s an open-source tool."

"I don't see the pricing or licensing features, but from what I understand, it is fairly reasonable."

"If you only need to use Ansible, it's free for any end-user, but when you require Ansible Tower, you need to pay per Ansible Tower server."

"It is a little pricey but it is affordable. It is not that bad."

"Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is an expensive solution. There may be additional fees to use advanced features."

"Like many Red Hat products, they have a no-cost version of the web application (AWX, formerly Ansible Tower), but you are on your own to install and it is a little more complicated than just installing Ansible."

"We went with product because we have a subscription for Red Hat."

"Ansible Tower is free. Until they lower the cost, we are holding off on purchasing the product."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

22%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Educational Organization

30%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

Company Size

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Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?

Fortinet FortiGate Cloud has valuable firewall, SSL VPN, and web filtering features.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?

The pricing is rated six or seven. It is not the cheapest.

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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud?

In terms of stability, it could be improved.

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What is the difference between Red Hat Satellite and Ansible?

Red Hat Satellite has proven to be a worthwhile investment for me. Both its patch management and license management have been outstanding. If you have a large environment, patching systems is much ...

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How does Ansible compare to Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM)?

Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager takes knowledge and research to properly configure. The length of time that the set up will take depends on the kind of technical architecture that your org...

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What do you like most about Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform?

The most valuable features of the solution are automation and patching.

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Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 14% of the time

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Compared 11% of the time

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Compared 10% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Also Known As

FortiCloud, FortiGate Cloud

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Overview

FortiCloud can help with your wireless and security challenges in a number of ways. Our solution addresses common IT difficulties including time-consuming provisioning, high investment costs, complex management, vulnerability to advanced threats, and the need to easily scale with growth.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a powerful network automation solution that allows organizations to handle every aspect of their application launch process within a single product. It enables users to share their automations so that teams within an organization can collaborate on various projects with ease. Ansible Automation Platform is designed to be used by all employees involved in the network automation process.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Benefits

Some of the ways that organizations can benefit by choosing to deploy Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform include:

Maximum benefit for reduced overhead. Ansible Automation Platform is an all-in-one solution that can enable users to do the jobs of multiple products with one. Users do not need to purchase multiple products to handle their network automation and application development needs. It is equipped with prefabricated content from more than one hundred companies that are partnered with it.

Scalable. Ansible Automation Platform is a highly scalable solution. It can easily be scaled up so that automations can be extended across the various devices that make up an organization’s network.

Flexibility. Ansible Automation Platform is highly flexible. It enables users to tackle any and all automation-related tasks.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Features

Automation analytics. Ansible Automation Platform comes equipped with an automation analytics feature. This feature enables organizations to measure the effects of their automations and plan how they are going to implement automations moving forward. It makes it easy for administrators to spot anomalies in their automations and resolve them before they can escalate and become major issues.

Integration suite. Ansible Automation Platform gives organizations access to a wide variety of integrations that enable them to connect to Ansible’s partners. Now users can augment their capabilities without needing to purchase additional solutions that will enable them to run features that are not normally a part of Ansible’s array of tools. The Ansible environment is built to handle the wide variety of integrations that their partners offer. In order to accomplish this it includes the APIs that users need in order to fully benefit from the integrations.

Centralized interface. Ansible Automation Platform comes with a centralized GUI interface that enables users to manage all of their network automation and application creation activities from a single location. Businesses can guarantee that their operations are going to be handled efficiently and according to a single standard. The management process is greatly simplified. All of the tools that users need are located in one place.

Reviews from Real Users

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform is a highly effective solution that stands out when compared to many of its competitors. Two major advantages it offers are its automation manager and its comprehensive centralized GUI-based management interface.

MD J., a solution architect at STBL, says, “The automation manager is very good and makes things easier for customers with multi-cloud platforms.”

Aankit G., a Consultant at Pi DATACENTERS, writes, “We like the GUI-based interface for the tower. Before, we only had a command-line interface to run all the Ansible tasks. Now, the Ansible tower provides the complete GUI functionality to run, manage, and create the templates and the Ansible jobs. This includes the code and YAML file we can create. The GUI interface is the added advantage of this solution, including some integration with the different plugins.”

Sample Customers

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

HootSuite Media, Inc., Cloud Physics, Narrative, BinckBank

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Fortinet FortiGate Cloud vs. Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

May 2020

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