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Fortinent vs SKUDONET
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Fortinent
FortiADC is an advanced Application Delivery Controller (ADC) that ensures application availability, application security, and application optimization.
SKUDONET
SKUDONET® began its public release in October 2010, and we have not stopped refining security, scalability, and high availability technology ever since.
Strengths & Weaknesses: Fortinent & SKUDONET
See how SKUDONET and Coyote Point / FortiADC compare across some of the most critical ADC capabilities.
Fortinent’s Strengths
- Loyal customers upgrading directly from Coyote Point.
- They have good reviews on Gartner.com
- Many customers refer it is very user friendly and has good technical support.
SKUDONET’s Strengths
- Disruptive vision with a stable growth as challengers in the ADC market, with an agile team and engaged community.
- Innovation driven with Open Source technology with no vendor lock-in and broad platforms integration (hardware, virtual, bare metal and cloud).
- Very high cost-effective solutions without limitation products and services, suitable for both midsize organizations and large enterprises.
- Investment in R&D to deliver a technology driven by easiness, performance and security.
- Is a complete ADC (Application Delivery Controller) that could manage all kinds of network protocols (UDP, TCP, HTTP/S, SCTP, SIP, T/FTP, …) but also with a combination of all of them simultaneously and multiport capabilities; and it’s not oriented to licensed features.
- Its operating system is fully optimized for networking so it is capable to move in layer 7 more than 140 thousand concurrent users and in layer 4 more than 10 million concurrent users with only 2 dedicated cores.
- Ability to create configuration backups, easy cluster configuration, automatic replication from one node to another and stateful cluster with real time sessions replications that permits a failover between nodes without losing any connection.
- Provides an integrated IPDS security system with real time black hole lists, DoS protection, black/white listing and protection of the most common network attacks.
- Provides a very UX graphic interface for both operators and network engineers in Angular 2 technology.
- Automation capabilities thanks to it’s fully programmable REST+JSON API.
Fortinent’s Weaknesses
- They do not provide an open core version, only a Demo.
- Do not have a hardware deployable ISO.
- Many customers refer that their web application firewall is not completely functional and not ofently updated.
SKUDONET’s Weaknesses
- Young brand as an open source company and yet to develop a big influence than other more established vendors.
- Needs to develop a broader partnership network.
*Summarised from the latest Gartner ADC report.
BENEFITS
Proud to be open, Open for being easier
We do not believe in limitations per core, memory or throughput. Our ADC solution performs with the maximum resources available.
We research and develop open high technology to gather the best performance, scalability and high availability.
We design user experience and automated interfaces to make application reliability technology easy.
Our agile Team always available to make your life easier and your challenges made true.
Related Article
How to migrate ADC services from Fortinet to SKUDONET
FortiADC is an application delivery controller developed by Fortinet. It aims to provide application security, traffic management, and availability of applications running on servers. However, SKUDONET has an upper hand in cloud deployment and availability. One may create a cloud account through SVNcloud, or deploy a node directly from AWS or Microsoft Azure marketplace.
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