CloudFlare Inc

Cloudflare

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What is Cloudflare?

Cloudflare is a global network designed to make everything you connect to the Internet secure, private, fast, and reliable. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare have all traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with each new site added. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks.

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Awards & Recognition

Cloudflare won the following awards in the Secure Access Service Edge category

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2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

Latest Award, 2024

2 Top Rated Capabilities

3 Top Rated Features

Latest Award, 2024

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

2023

Service Experience
Contract Negotiation

2023

2 Top Rated Capabilities

5 Top Rated Features

2023

Cloudflare Ratings

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93 Likeliness to Recommend

3
Since last award

95 Plan to Renew

1
Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

4
Since last award

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Emotional Footprint Overview

+97 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Cloudflare?

5% Negative

2% Neutral

93% Positive

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Enables Productivity
Trustworthy

Feature Ratings

Average 81

Enablement for Security Teams

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)

Zero Trust

Network Sandboxes

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS)

Secure Web Gateway (SWG)

Remote Browser Isolation (RBI)

SD-WAN

Data Analytics / BI / AI

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB)

Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 79

Business Value Created

Usability and Intuitiveness

Ease of IT Administration

Quality of Features

Breadth of Features

Ease of Implementation

Ease of Data Integration

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

Vendor Support

Availability and Quality of Training

Ease of Customization

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Xavier V.

Role: C-Level
Industry: Entertainment
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Feb 2022

CloudFlare: The New Domain Name Registrar

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?

While we started using CloudFlare at the company to manage our DNS, we had the troubles of having to renew yearly each of our business domain at their respective registrars. This was a tedious tasks resulting regularly in overdue domains, disconnections and in some rare cases, domain loses. When they rolled out their great features to transfer and renew the domain at CloudFlare itself, that was a breakthrough and changing point for us. Today, we are even able to acquire new domains right away from CloudFlare, which is an amazing feat, which no other provider offers.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love their new email routing beta features: being able to create custom email addresses and reroute them is something which is going to be useful, especially for startups. I also like the speed overview, testing website loading time and critical loading times.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Their customer support: not only does it takes a lot of time, but now for their free users, they only provide community support instead of email support as previously. Even paid account support is queued. This is bad in general, I believe.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you are looking to manage multiple domain within a single dashboard, have fast DNS propagation and optimal web protection for your website, I recommend CloudFlare without hesitation.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

Trisha D.

Role: C-Level
Industry: Other
Involvement: End User of Application

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Submitted Feb 2022

Getting Dedicated CloudFlare SSL/TLS Certificate

Likeliness to Recommend

10 /10

What differentiates Cloudflare from other similar products?

I could be writing chapters on this, for the simple fact of how cool, powerful and useful this tools is. 1. The DDOS protection is so good that for the past 8 year, we have managed spikes in traffic, without it even affecting the uptime of our side. The fact that traffic could also be managed via Load Balancing is also a plus, for businesses whose websites are crucial for their operations. 2. The dedicated SSL/TLS certificate are very affordable, and apart from the aesthetic point of view, gives identity and credibility to the secured aspect of your online web presence. 3. The ability to manage multiple DNS is just perfect.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

I love the Argo features, which improved our website loading time, by redirecting traffic into premium routes. The proxy features, which we usually do not pay attention, adds an extra layer of protection towards our web servers.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Customer support takes too long to response, especially when it comes to website security. However, I do understand that they have millions of users, and that this is not an easy task to manage this amount of customers. Pricing is a little too high also for some components, that should either be provided for free or bundled within an offer.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

When it comes to performance and security, I personally find that there is no match to CloudFlare. You can sleep on both ears, CloudFlare will take care of your website security without you having the burden of spending hundreds of dollars for website security tools and technicians.

Pros

Helps Innovate
Continually Improving Product
Reliable
Performance Enhancing

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Awards & Recognition

2024 Data Quadrant Gold Medalist

2023 Emotional Footprint Champion

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93 Likeliness to Recommend

3 Since last award

95 Plan to Renew

1 Since last award

86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

4 Since last award

Emotional Footprint Overview

+97 Net Emotional Footprint

How much do users love Cloudflare?

Pros

Feature Ratings Average rating of all product features, some of which may not be shown below

Enablement for Security Teams Enablement for Security to know the layers of protection deployed and not just rely on the carrier to only provide the connection.

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP) Provides protective capabilities that leverage effective web request inspection prior to reaching the API such as Next-Gen WAF, RASP, DDoS etc.

Zero Trust Provides features that enable a zero trust architecture, including device authentication and user contextual risk based authentication.

Network Sandboxes Sandboxes are used to safely execute suspicious code without risking harm to the host device or network.

Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) Next-generation firewall capabilities that include web filtering, advanced threat protection, intrusion prevention system, and Domain Name System security.

Secure Web Gateway (SWG) Protects corporate users and networks from web-based malware, controls employee behavior on the Internet, and helps prevent data loss.

Remote Browser Isolation (RBI) Separate your users' web browsing activity from the local network and its infrastructure, preventing browser-based attacks on the network.

SD-WAN Separates the data and control plane from its hardware, virtualizing the network.

Data Analytics / BI / AI Integration of capability to mine data from incoming sources (SIEM, logs, vulnerability tools, threat databases, etc) in real-time and apply rules.

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) Intermediary between an organization's users and one or more cloud services, allowing the enforcement of certain types of security policies in the cloud.

Viable Alternative VS Traditional MPLS Organizations may want to migrate away from traditional MPLS and leverage a platform to provision convergence and flexibility regarding deployment of security.

Vendor Capability Ratings Average rating of all vendor capabilities, some of which may not be shown below

Business Value Created Software needs to create value for employees, customers, partners, and, ultimately, shareholders. This data expresses user satisfaction - or lack thereof - with the product's business value.

Usability and Intuitiveness End user learning curves cost the organization money. Pay attention to your end users' technical ability to determine how important UX is in your purchase.

Ease of IT Administration This data indicates whether IT personnel will be able to resolve issues and perform configurations efficiently and effectively.

Quality of Features Feature quality is just as important as quantity. Use this data to determine if this product will do what you're purchasing it to do, easily, intuitively, reliably, and effectively.

Breadth of Features Users prefer feature rich software that enables them to perform diverse series of tasks. This data expresses user satisfaction with the product's breadth of features.

Ease of Implementation Successfully implementing new software is necessary to realize its full value and promote end user adoption. This data indicates whether or not the product is easy to implement.

Ease of Data Integration Use this data to determine whether the product will cause headaches or make data integration easy.

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement Vendors who don't stay on top of emerging needs and trends won't enable you to meet your business goals. Use this data to separate innovators from imposters.

Vendor Support The importance of vendor support will vary for each organization depending on internal capabilities, but there will always be issues that only the vendor can resolve.

Availability and Quality of Training Effective and readily available training enables users to get the most out of the software you've chosen. Use this section to make sure your vendor's training programs and materials measure up.

Ease of Customization Don't get bogged down in a difficult customization; use this data to make sure you can easily achieve the functionality you need for your particular situation.

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Cloudflare Reviews

Xavier V.

CloudFlare: The New Domain Name Registrar

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

Trisha D.

Getting Dedicated CloudFlare SSL/TLS Certificate

Likeliness to Recommend

Pros

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