We performed a comparison between Barracuda SSL VPN and Citrix Gateway based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Citrix, Ivanti and others in SSL VPN."The solution has good performance."
"It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The most valuable feature would be that you can actually narrow down your session to one application on one server, which is really nice."
"The product is easy to connect."
"It's a stand alone system that functions well."
"The setup is straightforward and hassle-free."
"I didn't have any hiccups or issues with it."
"The initial setup is simple. Normally with all setups, it's not very complicated. It really depends on the customer."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the web app support and VPN."
"Just creating that gateway to the storefront for Citrix is the most valuable aspect of the solution for us."
"The product enables us to collect logs from the systems."
"The solution is scalable and can go from a very small deployment to handling 10,000 transactions a second."
"It's easy to use. Also, the deployment part is perfect."
"We have users in a remote environment that might require to access the service."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Since it's not going to be getting any more software updates as per the end of this year, we have to move off to a different product.."
"Reporting could be improved."
"There could be more security features included in the product."
"Barracuda should find other ways to stir up interest about this product."
"If the solution had a more advanced DNS, it would be an improvement."
"While connectivity is not something that is under Citrix's control, if the connectivity is spotty, it can be difficult."
"The initial connection could be faster. That handshake takes a few seconds sometimes. That could be better and improved upon."
"Sometimes the input-output has issues."
"I'd like to see support for reverse proxy and more security features."
"It's extremely complicated and it's not intuitive. The solution requires a lot of training to get going on it."
"We are currently looking at automation. It would be good if there is some way to automate it in a fast way. It should be easy to automate. It also has some security issues."
"Technical support could be improved."
Barracuda SSL VPN is ranked 9th in SSL VPN with 4 reviews while Citrix Gateway is ranked 2nd in SSL VPN with 33 reviews. Barracuda SSL VPN is rated 8.2, while Citrix Gateway is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda SSL VPN writes "Provides good scalability and has a simple setup process". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix Gateway writes "Provided the ability for remote work during the pandemic". Barracuda SSL VPN is most compared with OpenVPN Access Server, Fortinet FortiClient, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, Microsoft Azure VPN Gateway and Check Point Remote Access VPN, whereas Citrix Gateway is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client and Ivanti Connect Secure.
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