Arista 7000 series vs FortiGate

Likelihood to Recommend

Core and data center applications are the strengths of Arista products. The distribution layer is also a good fit. For the access layer, it would be more of a niche product.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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Fortinet's Fortigate is a Firewall which can be suited to all the types of organizations starting from Small/ mid size to Large enterprises. Due to its cost effectiveness even a Small organizations can afford it. In the return Fortigate will give you the industry best technology to secure your organization infra.

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Binita Kharbanda

Shift Supervisor

MattsenKumar LLCInformation Technology & Services, 501-1000 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Arista 7000 series

FortiGate

Identification Technologies

Visualization Tools

Content Inspection

Policy-based Controls

Active Directory and LDAP

Firewall Management Console

Reporting and Logging

VPN

High Availability

Stateful Inspection

Proxy Server

Pros

The 7304's along side our core network design has provided 100% uptime during the 5 years of deployment.
The multi-chassis LAG has provided near 100% connectivity to the distribution and access switches.
Very low maintenance attention is needed.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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It is the most reliable NGFW that we have ever been touch with it.
You can easily upgrade the firewall cluster firmware without user attention!!!
User IDentity based feature is fantastic and intrusion prevention just works with least false-positive possible.
Very reachfull and intuitive GUI, just love it

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Amin Mirzakhani

Network Administrator

CalSpas - Lloyd's Material SupplyRecreational Facilities & Services, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

The 7304's lack a graceful non-intrusive upgrade method even though they are dual supervisor.
I would like to see more integration with Aruba's ClearPass and Airwave products.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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When we switched to Fortinet Fortigate, it took some time getting used to and become familiar with the new interface. Being used to strictly command-line interfaces, a full GUI-based firewall was something brand new. Careful planning had to be done when creating rules to ensure we didn't miss anything. However, once we got used to the new GUI interface, going from one Fortinet product to another was simple, as Fortinet used the same interface for all of its devices.

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Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 51-200 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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FortiGate 9.9

Based on 4 answers

Fortinet's products have kept improving with new software releases and they continue to deliver great value. Their support is also very good. I believe that as a small enterprise, their products have given us competitive advantage delivering features and functionality that enable us to innovate and do things better. They also continue to be a leader in the markets they serve.

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Adrian Cumberbatch

Manager, IT Operations

Cidel Bank & Trust IncFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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Usability

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FortiGate 9.8

Based on 6 answers

The user interface shared among many simultaneous users is very easy to get around. With shared favorites among users, most tasks are easily bookmarked and can quickly be found and edited. Their strategy for web filter integration is easy to understand and manage as well. With some general direction, setup and maintenance were easy to do and easy to teach others in the organization to do as well.

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Jeff Winter

IS Director

City of Hot SpringsGovernment Administration, 501-1000 employees

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Reliability and Availability

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FortiGate 10.0

Based on 2 answers

We had didn't any hardware failures at our two main office locations and upgraded our units last year after using them for about 5-6 years

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Adrian Cumberbatch

Manager, IT Operations

Cidel Bank & Trust IncFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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Performance

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FortiGate 10.0

Based on 1 answer

Good performance and really good integration. We have integration with Microsoft AD.

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Kewyn Medina

Supervisor IT Operations

Laureate International UniversitiesEducation Management, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

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FortiGate 8.9

Based on 32 answers

We live in Turkey. Fortinet's Turkey office [dealt] constantly with us in our every problem or our experience. In addition, global support teams also supported every ticket we opened in every problem we encountered. They support innovative approaches and evaluate and offer solutions. In this context, they were very supportive of the problems we encountered in previous versions.

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Tayfun Toka

Senior Security Supervisor

N11.comRetail, 201-500 employees

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In-Person Training

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FortiGate 10.0

Based on 1 answer

I received it a couple years afters use it and it was just to confirm my knowledge about the tool.

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Kewyn Medina

Supervisor IT Operations

Laureate International UniversitiesEducation Management, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation Rating

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FortiGate 8.0

Based on 4 answers

Make sure that you have the most current version of FortiOS. Make sure all Fortigates are on the same version

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Steve Jenovai

Systems Architect

Browns Hill Engineering and ControlsMechanical or Industrial Engineering, 51-200 employees

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Alternatives Considered

I have used the Catalyst 6500 series in the past. From my point of view, the Arista surpasses the Catalyst on just about every front. Originally we were planning on implementing the Nexus 7000/7700 series switches for our core. Though a little more feature rich, it did not provide features we needed that the Arista did. The Nexus also was a confusing and complex platform to work with. Also, the Nexus was a significantly more expensive solution. Although very happy with the Arista switches we may evaluate the Aruba HPE 8400 chassis-based switches along with Arista switches in the future.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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Fortinet was well placed on the Gartner report which lead to my initial investigation into the company. I quickly narrowed my selections down to Palo Alto and Fortinet, due to feature set, reputation and ease of use. Fortinet won out simply because Palo Alto did not offer a small branch style firewall at the time I was looking. I'm very glad they did. I have enjoyed working with their products from the moment they were first racked.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Hospitality Company, 501-1000 employees

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Scalability

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FortiGate 9.8

Based on 2 answers

My environments are pretty small (less than 100 users per location) so no issues here.

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Adrian Cumberbatch

Manager, IT Operations

Cidel Bank & Trust IncFinancial Services, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

The Arista 7000 series met or exceed our data center switching and routing needs.
It provided a more cost effective alternative to other products we were considering.
Implementation was quick and easy due to the simple standards-based configuration.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Hospital & Health Care Company, 501-1000 employees

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Fortigates have an interesting bundle model for support and subscription services that make it an attractive option to deploy Firewall, IDS, Ant-virus, anti-SPAM in a single device. The cost of the bundle is pretty much what you pay for the device, not requiring huge expenditures on it's time to renew the hardware.

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Artur Bittencourt

Information Technology Manager

Corporation of the Township of EsquimaltGovernment Administration, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Rating Summary

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Likelihood to Recommend