Fortinet FortiGate 50G FortiGate Cloud Management, 5-Year (FC-10-GT50G-131-02-60)

Bought alongside the firewall, a five-year cloud plan usually outlasts the planning horizon of the network it manages. The FortiGate 50G 5-Year FortiGate Cloud subscription (FC-10-GT50G-131-02-60) covers a single 50G with hosted management, monitoring, and log retention for the full five years, matching the device’s expected service life and carrying the lowest cost per year of the three terms. It is a subscription license only, with no hardware and electronic delivery to any country.

What this service covers

FortiGate Cloud moves day-to-day management of the 50G off the device and into a Fortinet-hosted portal:

• Remote management: configuration and monitoring run from a browser, which beats a console cable for a firewall sitting in a closet or a branch.
• Cloud log retention: the 50G’s logs are stored in the cloud across the term instead of rolling off the device’s small local storage in days.
• Reports and analytics: traffic, threat, and usage reports are generated from the retained logs, so a question weeks later still has data behind it.
• Single-pane access: the portal gives one place to reach the device, useful when the person managing it is not in the same building.

Who needs it

This fits an owner who manages the 50G remotely and wants more history than the appliance can hold on its own. A managed service provider standardizing on one portal, a branch with no local IT, or a small business that would rather log in from anywhere than drive to the site all get the most from it.

Activation and delivery

The subscription is issued electronically and registered to a specific FortiGate 50G by serial number. The five-year window starts at activation, and the device reports into the FortiGate Cloud portal once it is registered. Nothing ships.

Management, not the security subscription

FortiGate Cloud is about running and monitoring the 50G, not the FortiGuard intelligence that stops attacks. Intrusion prevention, antivirus, and web filtering come from the UTP or Enterprise bundle, and the two sit side by side: one keeps the device managed and visible, the other keeps it defended.

Choosing the five-year term

Five years is the commitment that makes sense when the cloud plan is bought with the firewall and meant to run for its whole deployment. It removes four renewal cycles from the calendar and prices the lowest per year. If you would rather keep the option to change course sooner, the one-year and three-year terms cover the same service over a shorter horizon.

Buying from DataCenter360.ca

DataCenter360.ca is an authorized Fortinet Select Partner and provisions FortiGate Cloud electronically for customers in any country. Tell us whether you are activating this on a new 50G or extending an existing portal and we will make sure the term lines up with the rest of the device’s coverage.