Fortinet FortiSIEM vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

"The most valuable feature is auto-discovery. When you send logs from any device to port 514, it helps register those devices automatically."

"The most valuable features of the solution is its integration with other technologies, especially its ability to collect logs from Cisco and Aruba devices along with Fortinet products."

"It's very easy for anyone to work with."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is highly scalable. I would rate its scalability nine out of ten."

"It is used as an alerting platform."

"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiSIEM are the SD-WAN, Global LAN, and application controls."

"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the correlation of many events."

"FortiSIEM's best features are the dashboards and customization."

"The best feature of this application is its ability to capture everything within the same application, as well as capture all the traffic."

"The gradual way the Network Insight shows you all the relevant information about your networks. It's pretty good. You can really dig deep deep inside and see where the problem is, where it comes from, what you have inside, how did you configure it. Also, it has alerts so you can have pretty much quite a big overview about your network. This is really something good."

"It allows us to see how the network devices function as well as to see network glitches or fluctuations or dropping of packets."

"If we deploy NSX it shows us how the workflow will flow in the organization, what the roadblocks are, and what we need to do to overcome those hurdles. When we run this product, it gives us reports which describe problems with physical switches. We work with the network team to get them all resolved."

"A lot of time is saved when you use this type of software solution for the network. We have moved systems into the new data center and the servers and systems are much faster because of the very low latency between virtual machines."

"By doing dependency mapping, it makes migrations more efficient. There are less outages that require engineers to spend additional hours troubleshooting the migration failures."

"It is user-friendly. It's pretty simple to deploy and to run. It gives you pretty easy-to-understand reports, very graphically intense, so you can visualize what's going on in your network."

"It allowed us to set up NSX and to do microsegmentation, without all of the pain points of having to determine each port and each IP address that needed to have access, and which ones needed to be blocked."

"I would like to see easier implementation in the future."

"Its training can be improved. Its price also needs to be improved."

"We need to see incident reports about the event log, without events from the administrator or through human interaction."

"When an alert triggers in Fortinet FortiSIEM, the layout or format can feel limited"

"The policy editing should be easier. Right now, it's too hard."

"They should enhance the solution's AI capabilities, including XDR and EDR."

"Does not have load-sharing or high-availability, and these are important things to implement. I can do the same things in another way, but not naturally having these features makes it complicated."

"Patching is not great - we're not getting the support we'd expect."

"There's enough information there, especially in the visualizations, but I would love to see this in a kiosk mode, where I could have a dashboard for interested stakeholders to see and appreciate what's going on. Then, moving on to a more practical level for our Help Desk, our operations team could benefit by seeing, in real-time, a visual view of the network."

"The only issue we have is that the solution does not always capture the host names."

"I would like to see more reporting features, more dashboards."

"The IT infrastructure industry is expected to evolve towards a hybrid cloud model in the next five to ten years. In this model, most of the customer's resources reside on-premise within a private cloud setup, such as VMware. Another segment operates within public cloud environments like Azure and AWS, and a portion remains in traditional data centers. There should be seamless interoperability between public and private clouds. AWS and VMware need to work together to make it possible. Whether users interact with on-premise infrastructure or configure resources in the public cloud, the user experience must be seamless."

"The virtual appliance has rebooted."

"The solution is very much viewer centric and it would be nice if it would transcend just the virtual infrastructure."

"There is room for improvement when it comes to pricing because we pay here in Brazil, and all the costs are based on the dollar."

"I want to see more in terms of microsegmentation. As of now, I can see the rules, but they are not in a readable format that I can convert to microsegmentation and can fit into NSX Manager."

"We bought the perpetual license, so we own the product, but there is a three-year support renewal fee for that."

"Pricing is determined based on the customer's budget."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is cheaper compared to other products."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is not an expensive solution."

"The price of Fortinet FortiSIEM was reasonable compared to other solutions."

"There are additional features that cost more than the standard licensing fees."

"FortiSIEM's licensing is based on EPS, and its pricing is competitive in the market."

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive. I rate the tool's price as an eight out of ten. Compared with Splunk or Oracle, Fortinet is cheap."

"It's a little expensive, but for what you're getting out of the product, you often see the trade-off. It depends on the type of licensing you have. It might be a little too pricey for some."

"It reduces costs. It takes something that may be challenging and makes it more usable and visual by being able to bring in tools, seeing what their impact is, such as microsegmentation and application rationalization, and seeing it quickly."

"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."

"vRealize Network Insight is expensive."

"It has brought more money into our company."

"The solution has reduced the time that we spend on other products. For example, with NSX, we were able to quickly find things that we would normally spend days trying to figure out."

"I rate vRealize Network Insight's pricing a seven point five out of ten."

"The solution has helped us to reduce time, increase performance, reduce costs, and even easily manage networks. We are probably seeing 10 to 20 percent labor savings because we are able to be very specific and focused on what we want to do. It ends up saving the customer money and makes us be more efficient on our cost deliveries."