Fortinet FortiGate Scalability
While I don't have a clear picture of scalability, we scale up in different regions based on the number of users and the amount of load. This is typically handled by architecture teams.
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Jenesty Alissoutin
Project Manager at Expertsys Technologies Inc.
The solution is scalable. If you need to expand it, you can. We have it at a variety of networks and sites with no problem.
We have 120 users that are connected to a minimum of 80 computers and a minimum of 15 servers, which is great. The solution is working and it is still stable even across all of these devices and servers. We have multiple networks inside as well, so we are not only on one network. We set them separately, which is why the initial setup for us was quite complex. We're through with that though.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is quite flexible and scalable, allowing us to scale up from sixty to a hundred units. However, there are limitations for extremely high production levels. I would rate its scalability an eight out of ten.
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I would rate the scalability of Fortinet FortiGate an eight out of ten.
View full review »I rate FortiGate nine out of 10 for scalability. Fortinet sells models that can accommodate more people. You can choose a cheaper model if you only have 20-30 users, but you will need to spend more money for a FortiGate solution that covers 5,000.
View full review »I have implemented FortiGate in approximately 200 projects, and it is a scalable solution.
It is primarily used by medium-sized and enterprise companies. Medium-sized companies normally have between 10 and 50 users whereas an enterprise will have more than 5,000.
View full review »The scalability for the FortiManger and the devices themselves is a nine out of ten but for the FortiAnalyzer it is a six out of ten.
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Will Alfaro
IT Consultant at Escuela de Comunicación Mónica Herrera
It's scalable. You can grow as you need. If you need more, you can use a model to upgrade to the next model.
We don't have users per se; I provide the service to clients.
View full review »It's scalable. We have 1,500 to 2,000 people across the world. We have multiple regions and multiple sites.
View full review »I'd rate Fortinet FortiGate's scalability an eight out of ten.
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Jim Morrill
Network admin at Penobscot Valley Hospital
In terms of its users, everybody uses the firewall because they're going out. That's our egress point. So, there are about 20 users for that. We have a dozen IPsec tunnels with which we connect to different companies. So, security is a big part of it. I also have a remote location with about 10 users who use a different firewall.
We probably won't be increasing its usage. Now that I got Authenticator, it nicely compliments the Fortinet firewall. The size of the company isn't going to grow any more than what it is. So, we're good.
View full review »The solution is used daily in our organization. I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten.
View full review »We have approximately two hundred users within our company.
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James-Jiang
IT Security Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
Fortinet FortiGate is scalable.
View full review »FortiGate is scalable.
View full review »This is a scalable product.
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Denis Orellana
Network Solutions Architect at Yazata Solutions
Scaling up only requires adding a router. Once you have your network in place and a basic template, you buy another router and add it to the mix. It's incredibly easy to add and configure devices.
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Eric-Smith
Solutions Engineer/Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
It is easy to scale as long as you start with the right firewall. Our clients are of different sizes. We have clients with the home office with two or three employees. One of the clients has about 26 locations in all four time zones and about 400 employees.
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Ian Manton
IT Manager at Daltons Limited
I would rate its scalability as a nine out of ten. They scale up really well from smaller models like the FortiGate 40 and 50 to bigger sites with the FortiGate 100 for more throughput - up to enterprise datacenters.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is a fixed configuration that depends on the number of nodes and devices.
View full review »The scalability is good. In 2016, we scaled our system to ensure that we would have enough capacity for the next five to seven years. We are currently only utilizing 25 percent of the hardware processing.
We have around 900 users on our networks per second with a total active directory of 7,000.
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AiméKouchade
Network & System Admin at Invoke Studios
It is scalable as we expand our usage of FortiGate as our company grows. We're currently using one, but we plan to use two as our network expands.
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For small and mid-level enterprises, it has been a very good solution, and that's why they captured that market. Our experience with it has been very good. It's easy to configure and deploy. In our country, their main market is small and big enterprises, but they are gradually focusing on the performance aspect. It's being used in large enterprises as well as a firewall solution.
It's scalable. There were some performance issues a few years ago, but they've fixed them for better performance, optimization, and high throughput. Performance-wise, it's very good.
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Prasanth P.
Global Chief Information Officer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
FortiGate could be more scalable.
View full review »I would say that the scalability possibilities of this solution are first-rate.
View full review »I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable. We have not had any problems.
We have approximately 150 people using Fortinet FortiGate in my organization. Everyone is using it.
View full review »It is scalable. It is quite straightforward. Moving from, for instance, legacy 200D to 100F has proved not to be an issue. It is quite straightforward.
View full review »While Fortinet FortiGate firewalls are scalable, upgrading to a new version or adding hardware requires purchasing a new license to migrate the old backup to the new firewall.
Fortinet FortiGate is scalable. If you are familiar with it, you can work from anywhere and do whatever you want. It is very easy to scale. We have about 500 users in our organization. It is not only engineering and not IT because we publish many websites from HQ to other branches. End-users use the Fortinet username and password to log in with two-factor authentication and the token.
I have no problem with scalability. When I need to add any device, I just find and add it to the network. I have no issue with the count of devices. I can buy a license and add whatever devices I need to add. Currently, I have no issue with the scalability of this firewall, but if I reach the maximum limit, I need to exchange the box or just add licenses. We currently have about 1,000 users.
View full review »Our customers are mainly small to medium businesses. I really didn't have a chance to scale it up. We have a customer with two subsidiaries on the same floor. They are changing from traditional features to SD-WAN features. Based on what I heard from my colleagues, migration work is quite smooth, and there are no big issues.
View full review »The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good.
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Andrew S. Baker (ASB)
Cybersecurity & IT Operations Professional (VirtualCxO) at BrainWave Consulting Company, LLC
No. Scalability is good, and performance increases are great as you move to higher products.
View full review »FortiGate's scalability is rated eight out of ten. We expect network expansion both over the cloud and on-premises, and we believe FortiGate will perform well in this scenario.
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OmerBaig
Solution Architect at AMBSAN TECHNOLOGIES
There are no scalability issues with Fortinet FortiGate. I haven't needed to scale it yet, but I have a relationship with the vendor, and they have a program to scale their hardware if required.
They also offer many solutions free of cost with the hardware, including advanced solutions. We have four branches of our organization, and they use these effectively.
View full review »I rate FortiGate a nine out of ten for scalability.
View full review »The solution is very scalable. The processor, the microprocessor and the security processors are very intelligent so they can scale significantly and manage that well.
View full review »We've been able to scale pretty well. It's not a problem of you need to expand.
End users will be passing through it. Most of the accounting passes through it to various other locations. We have about 1,500 people on the product, technically.
We do have plans to increase usage. We have not completed the entire County yet. We've done 80% and still need to action the last 20%.
View full review »The coverage and scalability of Fortinet FortiGate are good.
We use the solution for daily operations in the data center. There are hundreds of users that use the solution.
View full review »It's scalable. It's an SD-WAN application, so on every site we have a FortiGate firewall there.
View full review »We've found the scalability of the solution to be very good. If a company needs to expand on this solution, it can do so with ease.
We have between 2,000 and 3,000 users on the solution currently.
We do plan to continue to use the solution going forward. We have no plans to change anything.
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Philimon Kaitano
Network Manager at a tech company with 1-10 employees
The solution is highly scalable.
View full review »It is a scalable solution.
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Guy DEKESSUEDEM
HEST manager at ALTT CONTROL PLUS
The tool is scalable.
View full review »It is being implemented for everybody. It is our security layer.
View full review »We have not had the necessary size to experience extendability.
View full review »Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.
The challenges faced by our company related to the product are associated with the activation part. Whenever my company tries to activate the product, there are some challenges. Previously, my company had given a new product to our customer who had used Fortinet FortiGate in the past. When my company tried registering the product on the portal and activating the trial license, we saw that only 30 days of use remained in the tool. We installed the product's license after all the trial licenses were activated.
I have seven to ten customers running medium-sized businesses using Fortinet FortiGate.
After connecting to Fortinet Firewall, I have not faced any complaints related to large-scale traffic or attacks.
The solution offers the option of deploying VMs or virtual machines to any public cloud, such as AWS or Azure. It provides such flexibility. If you have any application hosted in the cloud space, you can have a VM spin of the FortiGate over there and have a site-to-site tunnel established, so the scalability is there. Otherwise, at the site level, it's mostly hardware-based work. If you size it properly, then you have the option to expand. You might have chosen a low-end model because of the tight budget. In that case, it's not scalable on a specific site. However, if you have a certain number of sites, for example, if you have 400 of them and you want to expand to 500 or 1,000, there is simply a license that goes at the FortiManager level to support additional devices. FortiManager provides a single pane of management.
I'd rate it a seven out of ten in terms of scalability.
View full review »The solution is very scalable. To scale our firewall we only need to add more hardware. We currently have over 2,000 users.
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Jans Lien
Senior Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable.
Our company is across many locations. For example, Europe, South America, America, China, Taiwan, and Asia. At this moment all of the sites are using Fortinet FortiGate. There are approximately 10,000 users that are using Fortinet FortiGate.
View full review »There are around 10,000 people in our company, and they are all using FortiGate because they all need to go through this cluster of firewalls.
The scalability of the product is great. If a company needs to expand it, it can do so.
Up to 100 people use it right now, and likely we will increase usage so that it covers 150 to 200 users.
If our other branch offices open in other cities or other countries, I will buy another firewall for them as well.
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SagarPatel
Senior ICT Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
There are some issues with the scalability of Fortinet FortiGate. Certain products and models need to be scalable, but they're not. For example, if you go with 400F, they only have two SFP+ ports, while the F5 has four ports.
When you're expanding the number of users for this solution, they'll ask you to replace the model, and this can be a big cost to customers, which could affect scalability.
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David Oparinde
Managing Director with 51-200 employees
The solution is scalable.
If the business expands into other geographical zones, we will need to expand the network and secure it. This is when we will expand the use of Fortinet FortiGate. However, because of this pandemic, businesses are slowly getting back to normal.
I don't think that expansion will come up in the next one or two years. Maybe in the next three years once they start to pick up their business, then there might be such an expansion or increase in hardware needed.
View full review »We have up to 100 users, and we are pretty satisfied. It's stable. We have never had to scale up because of the newest model. We go with C, E, then F, but at the same level, we never had to upgrade the hardware itself to a higher or a bigger model.
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Yazan Mashal
Presales Manager at Rayat Group
Its scalability is good.
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KrishnakumarNair
IT Manager at KSB MIL Controls Limited
The scalability of the solution seems to be pretty good. We haven't had any issues in that respect.
Currently, our organization has about 125 users on the product.
View full review »I rate the scalability of FortiGate a ten out of ten.
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Ashleigh Gilson
Senior Director Information Technology at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We haven't had a need to scale it, so it provides directly what we need it for.
There are approximately 2,800 users in my organization. The solution doesn't require a lot of staff for maintenance.
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IrfanShaikh
CEO at Acme Technologies
It is scalable. We have more than a thousand users.
View full review »I will tell a client not to go with Fortinet if they have no firewall or they have a very, very old firewall. If this is from scratch, I'd say let's not go with Fortinet, let's go with Meraki if you have the money. I always say create the budget for it if you have a lot of sites, as Cisco does a better job if you have a lot of sites. If you have two sites, then it's fine to go with Fortinet. It'll scale to that scale. However, if you want to go over a couple of sites, it's not the best option.
View full review »The tool is very scalable. It connects to its own wireless access points. The firewall is supported by other technologies. We can add more products and extend the features and the network.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate can easily scale using the cloud firewall option.
View full review »Its scalability is good. It's generally used in only one place as a standalone, but sometimes, it's used at multiple locations.
View full review »There are limitations to scalability.
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RajM2
Deputy Manager Of Information Technology at Nitco Limited
We have not tried to scale FortiGate.
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JackTrantham
Technical Account Manager at DSM Technology Consultants, LLC
Our clients are small to medium-sized businesses.
View full review »Small-scale companies sometimes use the whole UTM solution, which includes antivirus and URL protection. However, enterprise clients usually use additional solutions for those kinds of things.
I rate the scalability a ten.
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Thendo Ndzimeni
Network Administrator at Automated Outsourcing services
Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable product.
View full review »It is very scalable.
View full review »I haven't really pushed this product from a scalability perspective. Certainly, if you look at the performance metrics, the F series appears to have really expanded the capacity and capabilities beyond past models. If you look at 40E versus 40F, there's a fairly substantial difference. For a small office, it's going to be just fine.
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Chingiz Abdukarimov
Director at a integrator with 11-50 employees
For large scale deployment I would suggest to look at FortiManager, a central management point for large amount of FortiGates. I have tested the solution and found it quite useful. I could download configuration from any device and install edited list of policies to several devices simultaneously through a couple of clicks. Also I liked functionality of clearing out Address objects list from unused entries. It can be configured to be a central repository of firmware and updates, and a local rating server (url and antispam rating services) which can improve rating lookup latency value.
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Amgad Soliman
Senior System & Security Administrator at a legal firm with 51-200 employees
FortiGate is a very scalable tool. They have an app to manage the access points, switches, and other solutions.
For our project, now we're over a hundred users at the headquarters. The other branch supports about 20 persons.
View full review »We used the limit of our FotiGate firewall which was around 150 users and we never noticed any performance issues.
I would rate the scalability of FortiGate eight out of ten.
View full review »The scalability is good. You can merge other Fortinet products well with this solution.
View full review »The solution is scalable for enterprise companies.
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Benison Shroffe
Assistant Manager - Network & Security at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
For scalability, you must define your needs before implementing Fortinet FortiGate. You must know specifications, such as throughput, the number of sessions, and the SSL. Overall it is not scalable.
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Shaik Sayeed
Information Technology Solutions Manager at UBG
The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is very good.
We have customers with 1,000 users using this solution and others with 100.
Engineers use this solution and all the end-users are connected to it. The whole organization is using the solution.
View full review »We have more than 10,000 people o the solution. The scalability capabilities are enough. We haven't had a problem at all.
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Daniel Gorham
Senior Network Architect at Combat Networks
In terms of scalability, it scales very well.
They have different models for different sizes. Obviously, if you buy too small and you have to upgrade, then it's a box swap. Some other vendors can just add another unit and you cluster them together. In their case it's more of just switching the box out for more performance boxes if you go too low.
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UzairBaig
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
The scalability depends on the design and how it was done. You have to think about the next five years. We get lots of new updates on the older versions and if the product is still in support then the new features will be included.
View full review »There is a specific way of deploying a Fortigate product, and the scalability is related to the new unit deployment so there are no problems here. If you need more power/space, you just have to add a new box.
View full review »Our clients are quite sizable. One of them is one of the biggest telecoms in our country. We also have smaller customers that deal with smaller FortiGate models. We have a variety of customers of different sizes from around the country.
It's a scalable solution. I'd rate it nine out of ten.
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Shewraj Anoop
IT Manager at SICOM LTD
We are implementing it phase by phase. Initially, we had one VLAN, and then we added more. So, it is quite scalable, and we haven't had issues with it so far. It has been recommended by the vendor that the model that we have would meet our requirements for the time being. In two or three years, depending on how we expand and how many more resources are required, we might have to look at another version of the device.
Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable product.
View full review »FortiGate covers everything we need. Our company has looked into changing our firewall, but I recommended this solution because it meets all our requirements. Currently, we have between 150 to 200 users covered by the platform.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate has good scalability. You can deploy it in multiple areas and in multiple deployment modes such as firewall, inter-firewall, or core firewall. Fortinet FortiGate has appliances on multiple series that have different performances. You can choose multiple areas or multiple sites.
I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable.
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Gilles Mousnier
Manager GIS at epfam
We just have one firewall, and we are too small to have redundancy or something like that. In the future, we would like to have a second unit. We have lots of problems locally with the internet fiber. It is not very good, and ADSL is bad. So, first, we have to stabilize and upgrade our connection, and later, we will try to have redundancy, but it is not necessary at this time.
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Mohsinoddin Mohammed
Information Security Principal at Alkhorayef
With respect to scalability, it's an excellent product.
View full review »It should have been scalable. But, it is not quite so. There are limitations, I need to change the box or I have 1500 D. That means I can make 1000 connections, but some kind of vestibules are going on and the advances are going on. Then, I find it very difficult to give a connectivity simultaneously and upon current connections. As a result, I have to deprive my faculties, my staff, or my students of certain functions.
View full review »It is a scalable solution.
View full review »It is a scalable product.
View full review »When we cluster the two Fortinet FortiGate boxes together we have some issues.
When one of the boxes is active, we can't see the HA box in the same console.
Its scalability is very good. There are 100 to 3,000 users, and they are knowledge workers with different roles, such as engineers, lawyers, accountants, etc.
View full review »I can't really speak to the scalability of the solution, as it isn't as aspect I handle. I've never tried to do it, so I'm not sure how it works.
We have about 50 users on the solution. About one third have access to it.
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Md Mohiuddin
Assistant Manager IT at Urmi Garments Ltd
Currently, we have more than 600 employees using this product. Our users range from IT staff, management, and senior executives. We are all using it. And we plan on increasing the number of users to more than what we are currently at.
View full review »We are happy with its scalability. Its users are administrators. Our administrator team has about six people. The environment is set up as a multi-tenant, so each tenant has its own administrator for configuration.
It has been used every day since 2015. It is a core appliance for us.
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UmerSiddique
Sr. Network Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Scalability of this solution is good, we can add devices whenever we like.
View full review »The solution can scale well. If a company needs to expand it, they can.
I have various clients that use the solution and they have a user base that can range anywhere from five users to over 10,000.
I do plan to continue to use the solution in the future, however, I can't speak as to if my clients will expand their services or not.
View full review »In terms of usage, I have a main branch and then we have smaller branches throughout the country. Connecting to each site through FortiGate is much easier.
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Mike Kajubi
ICT/Presales Manager at Balton Uganda
The scalability has met our requirements. We have around 40 users.
View full review »It is also a scalable solution. However, as integrators, the scalability depends on us. There are many options available, and we can choose the size of the box based on our requirements.
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Nicholas Chan
Sales Director at Visualize Technology (M) Sdn. Bhd.
The product is not scalable.
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MahmoudSaleh
Quality Trainer at MOH
Fortinet FortiGate has limited scalability capabilities. You can't expand these devices. For example, if I was to go from 150 users to approximately 5,000, the CBU capability of the device would not suffice.
View full review »FortiGate is scalable.
View full review »I have found Fortinet FortiGate to be scalable.
Fortinet FortiGate is good for medium to large-sized enterprises.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable product.
In our company, it is the main gateway for the internet, and we have less than 100 users.
Deployment is faster per user. Each one has a laptop or a PC, as well as a mobile phone, so we have less than 100 devices per user, but with mobile phones and Internet access, that number can rise to more than 100.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is scalable.
View full review »The solution isn't scalable per se as it is hardware. However, you can always buy more hardware to expand it if you need to.
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Amar Patil
Security Engineer at Hitachi Systems, Ltd.
I haven't worked on the scalability side because most of the time, the pre-sales tools are relatively bigger devices. So right now, I haven't faced any issues with scalability. They have some larger devices for the data center. So if we talk about their hardware, I think they're capable of handling around 10,000 to 15,000 people on a single device. But if you go with the virtual environment, I don't think there is a problem. Fortinet has a single OS that we can deploy on whatever hardware capacity we want to configure over there or through virtualization.
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Naseema Ap
Manager systems at HOCL
Fortinet FortiGate is scalable for our users. Right now, we have almost 70 users. We do not have any plan to increase our usage of FortiGate. For maintaining the firewall solution, one staff member is enough.
View full review »I have not encountered any scalability issues.
View full review »It is scalable.
View full review »It is scalable.
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Raghunath Venkatesh
Business Development Manager - Security at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
The product can be scalable. However, it could be better. You are limited by the hardware.
We have more than 100 clients using this solution.
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Mushtaq Ahmad
Manager IT at Riphah
I do not foresee the product being easy to scale. We find it so hard. It does not seem to be possible.
Currently, we have around 15 users and there are five to ten people handling the management aspect of the product.
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Kshitij Singhai
Owner at Computech Associates
It is a scalable solution, and you can also upgrade. They come up with a new feature every time. Whenever you're updating your firewall firmware, it is ready to mitigate threats available in the fiber scenario.
Our clients are small, medium, and large businesses. We have deployed it for small offices or retail stores as well as for big manufacturing units. We also have clients from Education and Healthcare. Some of the large companies have between 800 to 1,000-plus devices protected through this firewall.
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Jeroen Hein
Engineer at The Learning Network
For the traffic we have all five firewalls. The log is minimal with the traffic, which is going over the firewall and we don't require a lot of scalability.
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SitaramPatro
Enterprise Service Manager at Technology Associates Limited
We have 400 users covered under the firewall and 50 employees. We've never had issues with scaling. It shouldn't be a problem. However, it's not something we actively measure.
We plan to increase usage and to continue to use the product for another three years. After that we may upgrade to a new Fortinet product or seek out a new solution, depending on the landscape at that time.
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NipontChartkul
Director, CFO at IT Green Public Company Ltd.
Our experience with Fortinet FortiGate depends more on the sizing of the customer. Fortigate is very scalable to serve our customers' needs.
We have scaled from fifty to more than a hundred instances of Fortinet FortiGate. Around 20 staff are required for deployment and maintenance, mostly engineers.
We are not a distributor for Fortinet, so we will not actively promote it as a solution.
View full review »Scalability is excellent. Across three locations we have 120 users.
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Diana Nongera
I.T. Manager at Pacific Cigarette Company
It has the capacity to change in size. It comes in different sizes. E.g., for a smaller organization, you buy smaller package, then for bigger entities, you buy the bigger one. If you have fewer users in a certain entity, they would get a package of 50 each. If it's a head office, then you'd get something like 201. So, it accommodates for all sizes.
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Anand Navik
Technical Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
It's scalable. We have plans to increase its usage.
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Mina Aziz
Senior System Engineer at Effvision
Fortinet FortiGate is scalable.
We have approximately 25 people that are using this solution. We do not plan to increase usage.
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MichaelZhang
IT Director at Guangdong Technion Institute of Technology
Fortinet FortiGate is a very scalable product.
It is managed by the IT department, so only they use it.
View full review »The solution is pretty scalable. It's flexible. It works with the organization and allows you to expand it as necessary.
In my company, we use FortiGate across several locations. The location with the most number of users has maybe 400 to 500 employees. That said, there is another FortiGate that manages the traffic that goes to the internet for all of the users across locations. We must have around 900 users.
We do plan to continue to use it going forward.
View full review »You can have the availability features. All the traffic goes through this firewall for access to the outside world.
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Sagy Haham
CEO at SAYCOM
It fits for small and medium-sized companies. Regarding the very big ones, I don't know, I'm not in the enterprise market. But for our clients that are offices or companies that are sized between 20 users and 300 users, it's okay. It's good for them.
View full review »We have been in no position to upgrade our number of users. So, I cannot judge this aspect of the product.
View full review »No issues encountered.
View full review »It is quite scalable.
View full review »It's quite scalable. The scalability and the migration are okay as well. Licensing model is also stright forword and certain features such as basic SSL VPN requires no to min additional cost per user.
The scalability is good. You can expand it as needed and add on extra apps to add in extra functionality if you want to.
We mostly deal with mid-range companies.
View full review »The scalability is fine. If a company needs to expand it, they should be able to do so without any issues.
We only have about 40 users on the product currently. It's not a big company.
For now, the product is good as it is and we don't have plans to increase usage in the future.
View full review »Their scalability is pretty good. We have upgraded and changed them, and we have been running them for 20 years. They run for a long time. We are not replacing them every couple of years, and we have scaled up a lot. We have over 10,000 users behind it. We have three people for maintenance and deployment.
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Jan Christiaan
Network Security Engineer at Social Security Commission
We have a cluster and we have configured it with high availability. What we have done is we have put one primary and one secondary in case it breaks or it gets damaged. We have a third one at our DR site as well, which works in conjunction with Plateau. We have employed the same rules and some stricter rules on the DR site, just to allow traffic between these machines.
We allow certain times for updates on the infrastructure we have at the DR. We are planning some more, however, we don't enjoy all the features yet. We want to bring in an SD-WAN. Maybe that can also help us with scaling our network at different angles and from the cloud or being from an LD device or so forth. We're still working on that.
I know that it's scalable, but I don't actually have any experience regarding scalability. It's probably not as scalable as pfSense because pfSense is based on open hardware platforms. I definitely know that proprietary platforms usually tend to be less scalable because they're more constrained with licensing. The scalability in my opinion would be decent, satisfactory, but I believe pfSense is probably more scalable. I know that there are a lot of big corporations like Google and others that use pfSense. I don't know the details. I'm just giving my educated guess.
View full review »I currently have about 36 to 40 devices that are being used. We use a certain number of devices from business to business.
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VeerSharma
Branch Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The scalability is good, although I see that some brands are now coming up with an important advancement. Currently, when you want to do HE (High-end), you have to have the same model or a similar model. Some competing solutions are now able to do HE between mixed models.
View full review »We have not encountered any scalability issues; proven that you properly sized the FortiGate model that fits your environment.
I rate the scalability of Fortinet FortiGate a five out of five.
All sizes of organizations can use this solution. All levels of a company are using this solution.
View full review »We have approximately 80 employees that are protected by FortiGate. We have approximately 20 that work in the office, with a total of about 50 PCs.
It has not been necessary to scale beyond that.
View full review »So far our biggest client is only FortiGate 400, a small-medium business.
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Arkadiusz Świerczek
IT Specialist at Divante
Currently, everyone who is connected with the company is using this solution. We have up to 240 people.
View full review »In terms of scalability, our biggest customer using it has 500 people.
View full review »This product is scalable and as a service provider, we extend our usage to external customers. There are many users on the platform.
View full review »We have more than 7.000 users on the solution right now.
We do plan to continue to use the solution going forward.
View full review »The scalability of the device is limited.
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Ted De Vos
President at simnet
With respect to scalability, it's good.
We have 15 people using this solution in our organization.
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Fernando Neto
Network Analyst at Aloo Telecom
I found this product to be good for scalability. It offers several features, among them I can mention Application Control, Antispam, QoS and others.
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Vineeth Babu P
IT System Administrator at emirates hospital
If we implement Fortinet to Fortinet connections, then the solution works fine and there are no issues. If we connect with any other vendor like Cisco, Palo Alto, or these kinds of devices, I can see sometimes that the connectivity issue is there.
From IIS, the I/O packet works and connectivity is ideal. Connectivity is fine, but the title clock unnecessarily comes in and sometimes it doesn't reach the destination.
We use Fortinet FortiGate in twenty to twenty-five locations at the time, although we are basically focused on healthcare industry requirements.
For the deployment and maintenance, we have two people we are using right now. Regarding maintenance and deployment, we employ experts in network and security support.
We don't have any plans to increase usage of Fortinet FortiGate. We only use it in 25 locations.
View full review »Scalability is the one area where there is room for some improvement. Currently, customers need to purchase more powerful units as their network traffic and requirements grow. Fortinet will occasionally offer trade-in credits in such situations, but this is not always the case. Their product line allows customers to scale from SoHo through enterprise-level requirements, which is what I like about them so much.
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Simon Chaba
ICT Manager at a aerospace/defense firm
They are easily scalable with multiple built-in interfaces. It supports a minimum of 10 VDOMs. VDOM supports all dynamic routing protocols like RIP, OSPF, BGP, and IS-IS. You do not need to reboot after enabling the VDOMs.
Area for improvement - there is one big configuration file with no separations for the unique VDOMs. Maybe they could separate individual VDOM configuration files with the root VDOM configuration file referencing the individual VDOM config files.
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Issam-Kawash
Sales project manager at Saraha
The solution is scalable. We have 11 clients using this solution.
View full review »We find Fortinet FortiGate scalable, because currently, we have 150 users of it, and it could handle up to 1,000 users. It's good for growth.
View full review »They provide different products and features and can be added if you needed
View full review »This solution is very scalable.
View full review »We don't have scalability requirements so I can't comment.
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Effort Moyo
Technical Services Manager at ProComm technologies
It is highly scalable. A customer had about 500 users.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is very scalable.
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Iz
Assistant Manager (Infrastructure) at SISTIC
No issues.
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Waseem Khan
Network/Systems Administrator at TRSP
The scalability is good in Fortinet FortiGate.
We have approximately 2,000 users using Fortinet FortiGate.
View full review »This is a scalable solution. We have about six thousand users and have plans to increase.
View full review »There are times Fortinet FortiGate can not be scalable.
We have 20 people using the solution.
View full review »The solution's scalability is a problem because when you use a LAN, you use hardware and hardware wastes resources. However, it is more scalable than some of its competitors, such as Check Point. We have 620 users using the product.
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Adriana Ymeri
IT Infrastructure Engineer at Communication Progress
This solution is scalable. They have now built hyperscale firewalls and it's very easy. Also VMs, for example, is very easy to scale, you just need to adjust the licensing.
Scalability-wise, I haven't had any problems. Because of the price, I would say that this product is better for large enterprises.
View full review »I can't speak to the scalability. I've never attempted to scale and therefore don't have a sense of how well the solution would take to it.
We have about 30 engineers that work with the solution currently. I'm not sure, however, if there are any plans to increase usage in the future.
View full review »This is a scalable solution. We are able to integrate new products and different payment options. As new projects come in, we are looking for a hybrid setup that will incorporate the cloud.
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Simon Coombs
System Administrator at a media company with 11-50 employees
Fortigate has more than adequate capability to cope with everything we require for the foreseeable future.
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Directcust4564
Directorate at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
Regarding scalability, we have bought a very large box, so it meets all of our requirements.
We have a big company, with fifteen hundred end points.
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DaleYeh
Principal Mining Consultant at senhwabio
Fortinet FortiGate is scalable, but it is not a requirement for us. We only have 25 users. They are general users, not engineers. I am the only engineer needed to maintain FortiGate.
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MnG32
Manager and General Attorney with 51-200 employees
The scalability is fine. The problem is the licensing. To do more you have to pay for it. In this market, where you can find a lot of devices to do the same things, to charge for them in the license is very difficult. Also, sometimes Fortinet changes their products, they drop devices from the market very quickly.
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Matthew Titcombe
CEO & Sr. Information Security Consultant at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
There were no issues with scalability.
View full review »Scalability's not been an issue for my org. We only utilize it for certain applications.
View full review »With design and dimensioning parts well achieved I never encountered scalability issue. However it happened I had to troubleshoot some slowness and latency issues on existing projects already running live. Most of the time they were due to some design issues and non-optimized configurations like for instance “in” and “out” ports not handled by the same NP, policy rules non-optimized and non-used features enabled.
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EranjayaKumarasiri
Security Engineer at Eguardian lanka
The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good.
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Phil Horst
President at Integral Design Software
With only two people in the company, we haven't needed to scale. Our roles include software development and providing technical support for various clients.
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MaheshPatel
Sr. Corporate Marketing Executive at Amity Infosoft Pvt. Ltd.
Scalability is Fine.
The solution is scalable.
View full review »We have not had any issues with scalability.
View full review »I believe that it is a little complex adding new firewalls in an existing cluster.
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Krzysztof Morański
Systems Engineer at Vernity
Some clients may increase usage in the future. FortiGate is fast becoming a very popular solution and its use will likely grow in general.
View full review »I haven't run into any issues when it comes to scaling. If a company needs to scale it should be able to do so without much of a problem.
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Kofi Osei-Appaw
Consultant at WorldNet ICT Solutions Limited
The scalability of this solution is fantastic.
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Kevin Stephens
ICT Administrator at a mining and metals company with 11-50 employees
It is very scalable. We have around 200 users.
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Ahmed Konsowa
Senior Security Consultant at SEE "Systems Engineering of Egypt"
It is amazing, but sometimes there are issues with Fortinet Integrations. But, I know they are now trying to rectify the problem.
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Yousef Altaj
Tech Manager at Global tec
Sometimes the solution is not scalable.
View full review »I have not encounter any scalability issues.
View full review »It is scalable. We have 10 clients who are using this solution.
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Madalena Carvalho
System ADM at a recreational facilities/services company with 501-1,000 employees
This is not an area fully explored. It has been sufficient for what we need.
We have 700 users in our organization who are using this solution. We don't have plans to increase our usage at this time.
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Leo_Wong
Consultant at Resolve Technology Limited
The solution isn't exactly scalable, especially when it comes to the public cloud environment. We'll need to scale up, so we will have to figure out how to do it effectively.
We primarily work with medium and large enterprises.
View full review »We have approximately 40,000 employees and the product is very scalable. The different hardware units are quite good and are an appropriate size for enterprise-sized businesses.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate appears to be scalable.
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Alberto E. Luna Rodriguez
Network Security Coordinator at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have personally found that Fortinet advertising can be misleading. The devices will usually fail way before reaching the capacity advertised in the data sheets, especially when you activate several of the features the device can handle. This is not a dealbreaker for me, especially because of the cost. But I would advise care when dimensioning the devices you’ll need.
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Anderson Guedes
Specialist of IT Solutions at InterNexa
Fortinet FortiGate is scalable.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is very scalable.
We have implemented it for 13 or 14 customers.
View full review »The scalability is very good. If you need to scale it as an organization, you can do so.
We have 100 users. They are largely network engineers, however, we have technicians and active users.
We do plan to increase usage in the near future. We have more projects coming up.
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Emmanuel Salamat
Solutions Architect at Universal Access and Systems Solutions
Scalability is one of the disadvantages. When it comes to scalability, you have to actually change the box. If you want to upgrade it, you need to actually change the existing box and probably you take the system off to other sites.
With FortiGate, if you want to upgrade, it is physical and you have to buy a bigger box. You have to replace it with a bigger one. The boxes of Fortinet are not modular, so you have to replace the entire box. That's one of the bad sides of Fortinet.
When it comes to security, it's not really possible if the other solution is actually plausible.
View full review »The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is sufficient. What we bought was sufficient for what we need. I don't know if we're going to need to upgrade it or not, it depends on if we need to increase or lessen it.
Since we built Fortinet FortiGate we didn't need to do anything more for it. Over 200 users are currently using this solution and only one staff is required for maintaining it.
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Randy Obanon
IT Manager at Soporte Antivirus Ltda
It's scalable. We have 22 users.
View full review »We have the ability to expand our units and there have been no issues so far.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution.
View full review »I think the scalability could be improved.
You can scale the solution if you need to. It's not a difficult thing to do.
We do plan to continue using this solution.
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Avantha Malalage
Chief Information Officer at teamddt
Scalability can be improved. Compared to Cisco, Fortinet FortiGate's scalability is in a good position.
View full review »It is scalable. There are no issues. In terms of the number of users who use FortiGate, we have only about ten users for remote working. Only selected users utilize this remote capability.
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Vandy Va
Head Of IT Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution is scalable but when you do scale, it limits the performance. We have over 1,000 users in our company and four people who deal with the maintenance of all our solutions.
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NomanSaleem
IT & PPN Coordinator at a manufacturing company
The solution can scale if you need it to. That's not a problem at all.
We do plan on continuing to use the service going forward.
View full review »Since we are integrators, this product gets sold to people who have a minimum 25 and up to 600 users.
At the moment, we don't plan to increase usage.
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Derrick Slaton
IT Specialist 3 at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
I would rate the scalability an eight out of ten. We have just over 100 users using this solution.
View full review »Scalability is fine as of now. Compared to other firewall products, it's a little cheaper in terms of pricing. So scalability is good.
But right now, due to a greater focus on security, I think FortiGate needs to improve on the security features, and they need to do so for their small and medium business products, in order to compete.
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Eric TOURE
System & Network Administrator at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The scalability of Fortinet FortiGate is good.
View full review »We have not tried to expand the product much, but it is currently used as the main security perimeter for about 2000 people which is already quite a large number. We don't predict that we will be increasing usage much more than that.
We plan to keep using FortiGate as much as we can for our security solution as we casually move more of our systems to the cloud.
There are other products on the market that are a little better than FortiGate in terms of scalability, but in general it's a good solution. We have about 200 users in the company.
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Gamal Al-Hamzah
Network Engineer at LinkTech
We have knowledge of other firewall products but FortiGate is the best.
View full review »There was a hardware limitation, affecting scalability.
View full review »It has not been a problem to scale it.
View full review »For massive logs & reports (over a month) we have to go for a separate logging & reporting device i.e. FortiAnalyzer/FortiCloud, as this is not available in Fortigate itself.
View full review »No issues encountered.
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None so far, well it depends with license of the vpn. You need to purchase it and discuss it with the vendor.
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It's a scalable product. We have 600 users in our organization.
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Lenos Jacob
Head of Customer Success at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It's a scalable product.
View full review »Scalability is very good. We just did a quote for a university here that has about 25,000 students, and all the solutions that we put in the RFP, they were accepted. The only thing is the cost. As far wanting more scalability or things in the network diagram, it's going to cost you.
View full review »No scalability issues, but communications is severely limited in our case by design.
View full review »This solution is scalable.
View full review »The scalability is good. We have approximately 50 employees using this product in our company.
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Matteo ZAMOLO
Program director at a tech consulting company with 201-500 employees
We have over 5000 users using the solution at my company.
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Consultant76
Security Engineer at a real estate/law firm with 1,001-5,000 employees
It is scalable. We are making a cost savings on the scalability.
View full review »Since we are not virtual, it is a physical box. It scales well if you know what to buy from a physical box standpoint. They seem to offer something for every level.
View full review »There were no scalability issues.
View full review »It's a scalable solution. I would rate it a seven out of ten.
We have 2,500 users in our organization.
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Mauricio Lazaro
Director/Owner at Miodesk
Scalability is good, we have about 5,000 users.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is both scalable and stable.
View full review »It is scalable. We use it at five sites, and all in all, we have around 300 users.
View full review »We find the solution to be quite scalable. If your organization needs to expand this solution out, you shouldn't have any problems doing so.
We have two or three different locations and have between 50 to 200 users amongst those locations.
View full review »It keeps improving the features and I am very impressed with the effort.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is scalable. We don't have any constraints that create a problem for us except the support.
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Rodolfo Bento Matos
CEO e confundador at Infinity Learning
It is good enough for us. We have about 15 employees who use this solution.
View full review »The solution is highly scalable because they have devices that can handle a large amount of traffic. The VM version with the hardware appliances is widely scalable. It can handle small businesses to large scale enterprises. In terms of mode of deployment, you have VM, hardware appliance, and cloud. There is cloud management as well that is scalable. It can suit a number of deployment scenarios.
We currently have 50 employees using the solution, some of our clients that have deployed it has 1000 users and it has not given a problem.
View full review »FortiGate is a scalable product and our customer has approximately 2,000 users.
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Anderson Clivati
Specialist of IT Solutions at INTERNEXA
The solution is scalable.
View full review »Yes, somewhat.
View full review »My colleagues have easily switched licenses and features for the device. There was not any complication, it was really intuitive.
View full review »No issues.
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Alan Chavira
Engineering Manager at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees
No issues encountered.
View full review »Fortinet FortiGate is a scalable solution.
View full review »It is a very secure, easily managed product. It keeps up-to-date with all the variabilities.
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Manjil Bhetwal
Presales Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
This product is definitely scalable. Our clients range from small to medium-sized businesses.
View full review »The scalability is good.
View full review »I did not encounter any scalability issues.
View full review »We have had no trouble scaling the solutions.
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December 2024
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