My company's clients who don't want to go for on-premises management or shift to the cloud to reduce the on-premises footprint prefer Quantum Smart-1 Cloud, which is a cheaper option.
Along with good reporting capabilities, the product offers ease of deployment and great scalability options
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The most valuable features of the solution are the reporting and the traffic view that the product provides its users.
What needs improvement?
VPN configuration can get clunky sometimes. VPN configuration can be considered for improvement.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Quantum Smart-1 Cloud for three years. My company has a partnership with the product company.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten. There have been minor incidents when using Quantum Smart-1 Cloud in our company, but they were resolved quickly.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten. You can manage hundreds of gateways with the solution. I have never run into any issues with the solution.
Around 50 percent of my company's clients use Quantum Smart-1 Cloud, while others still use the on-premises deployment.
Small and medium-sized businesses use Quantum Smart-1 Cloud, while enterprise-sized businesses use on-premises deployment.
How are customer service and support?
There are a couple of things you can do on the on-premises side that you can't do in the cloud, because of which you need to engage the product's technical support to have those areas managed for you. It typically takes a day or so to get certain things done by technical support.
I rate the technical support an eight out of ten.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
I rate the product's initial setup phase a ten on a scale of one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy. Everything is pre-provisioned in the solution, so not much effort is required to complete the initial setup phase.
The solution is deployed on the public cloud.
The deployment process of Quantum Smart-1 Cloud takes around five to ten minutes.
For deployment, there is a need to create an account in Check Point Infinity Portal, after which you can activate Quantum Smart-1 Cloud module and start with the provisioning process, which is something that gets done automatically in a while.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Compared to the on-premises solution, I rate Quantum Smart-1 Cloud's pricing a five on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive. It is more cost-effective than the on-premises solution.
If you want to increase or retain more logs, then Check Point includes default log retention capability for which there are additional licensing costs.
What other advice do I have?
I would tell those planning to use the solution to ensure the amount of logs you generate so that there are no hidden costs. Check Point provides a pre-evaluation period of around two weeks so that you can get hands-on experience with it and see if it works for you.
I rate the overall solution a nine out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
