For example, in banking, you need 24/7 uptime. You need at least one engineer in a shift to manage the Fortinet devices.
How many people you need for maintenance depends on the nature of the business. That said, from an implementation aspect, Fortinet implementation is much easier as compared to Palo Alto. There may be some pools that need to get access from this to that. However, if you have multi-locations, there might be multiple dependencies or local issues and other stuff, and the configurations may be different. Generally, if there is a standalone infrastructure, and someone wants to configure Fortinet, then it shouldn't take more than one day. The deployment depends upon the requirements. Most of the SMB customers are on Fortinet. Most of the enterprise customers are on Palo Alto.
A majority of the other customers are on Sophos, and a few customers are on Palo Alto. That's why, while doing the sizing, I would suggest that any system engineer sizes a little bit on the higher side so that, even if the user count goes up, or if the customer plans for scaling, then that won't be a challenge for near future.įor us, the majority of the customers are on Fortinet. The CPU processing will get distributed among all the services, and then performance may be spread across as well. A 40F would likely be better, as, when we enable UTM, it will enable all the functionality and all the engines will get started, and it will get used. You need to ask: who is the system engineer who is sizing for the customer? For example, if you are the customer and you have a 50 user setup, and the system engineer is proposing a 30E, that may not be a good or an ideal model for 50 users. Which deployment model are you using for this solution? I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. There's some AI in it now that's starting to give you some real meaningful data points on security, which are nice to have. There are lots of different options here that give you the flexibility to deliver a security posture you feel comfortable with across on-prem and cloud-based management. You can do it on-prem, you can do it in the cloud. The breadth of the offering, meaning that you can do switching, you can do wireless, you can do the security cameras, you can do SD-WAN, you can do 5G. My advice to customers considering FortiGate is to look at the breadth of the offering rather than a specific product. In the bigger clients, what we see them doing is looking at mainly having the add-on of being able to manage the wireless through the same point of management.
And they've got a large portfolio now, so we're seeing more people, especially in the small and medium-size move to something like this. The solution has started to move into things like security cameras, having an all-in-one point of security contact they've got cameras and SD-WAN and next-generation firewalls.
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