We performed a comparison between Cisco DNA Center and Fortinet FortiGate Cloud based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Management Applications solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Cisco DNA Center is the AI (Artificial Intelligence) that provides us with valuable information."
"It enables monitoring of various components such as access points, switch cards, and other elements within the company's solutions."
"It gives us automation capabilities for pushing out the configuration to branch networks. It also provides visibility into the health of user network devices."
"People like to use the dashboards to get an overview of their network."
"It is simple to manage and it is all done from a single dashboard."
"Has a good processing feature with a high level of accuracy."
"The most valuable features were the monitoring, maintenance, and configuration."
"Cisco is a leading network company."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the stability, it's actually tailored for that."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate Cloud's simple UX and UI designs and the fact that it is also a VPN solution for our clients. The solution is user-friendly."
"FortiGate Cloud has many features that we like. For example, we're using it for security incident management, threat intelligence, and vulnerabilities check. It's integrated with several Fortinet tools like FortiAnalyzer and FortiSandbox controlled through FortiManager."
"It's easy to use."
"The solution is very easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the inspection. It inspects before we have any traffic stops intrusion."
"Everything is valuable, especially the SD-WAN tunneling, filtering of email, application, and browsing. Everything has value."
"This is a vast system that includes a lot of features."
"There is a limitation with the number of VRFs that you can have in your network, and this has caused us problems with some customers."
"Technical support could be better. The price could be better, and it could be more stable."
"From the recent DNA point of view, there are some stability challenges with Cisco, but very minor."
"The network, data center, and SD-WAN are all being treated as different services, but I would like to have only one solution to manage all of them."
"Cisco DNA Center should improve its configuration management. It is better to have a dev version before pushing it."
"I would like is to have a small information pointer available. It could be a plus feature that I want to implement. When I hover my mouse over the user interface, it should provide a brief explanation. It would be helpful to have it incorporated into the UI."
"The solution needs to improve the dashboard."
"Integration with analytic tools and API integrations would be ideal."
"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."
"The SSL visibility could be better."
"We do find we get a bit of a lag."
"We are seeking a solution that can monitor our network traffic running through 17 firewalls in Malaysia and Indonesia. We want a solution that can record and monitor all the logs from all the firewalls. We want to consolidate all our firewalls into one portal so we can monitor all the activities from all the firewalls."
"The product is not recommended on the basis of technical parameters. It is very tough to authenticate."
"We needed to do some training to be able to implement Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and after the training, we did the implementation in-house."
"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."
"FortiGate Cloud could be improved with increased granularity for our control."
Cisco DNA Center is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 37 reviews while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 reviews. Cisco DNA Center is rated 7.8, while Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Cisco DNA Center writes "Practical implementation of VXLAN is good and provides centralized control". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". Cisco DNA Center is most compared with Cisco Prime, Aruba Airwave, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager, Huawei eSight and Juniper Mist Wired Assurance, whereas Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) and Fortinet FortiPortal. See our Cisco DNA Center vs. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud report.
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