We performed a comparison between Citrix NetScaler and Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."For desktop application management, I recommend the NetScaler edition. This product is like a Swiss army knife. Citrix NetScaler ADC supports the education front-end."
"The web application firewall is one feature I found valuable in the solution."
"Content Redirection and SSO integration with Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop. The GUI was wonderful."
"It is a very stable solution."
"It has helped us to increase the resiliency of the application and the performance."
"The solution is extremely stable."
"The most valuable feature of Citrix ADC is its ease of use."
"It is a stable solution. It crashed only once, four years ago...There is a return on investment using the solution."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"We would like the licensing model for this product to be improved, as it isn't currently very transparent. There isn't a standard package available, and each extra feature creates an additional cost."
"Manageability and adaptability can also be challenging for end customers."
"There is room for improvement regarding the pricing policy for Citrix offices."
"The setup for Citrix NetScaler has room for improvement. It could be easier."
"I think there is always room for improvement in this type of solutions. For example, I think the GUI should be easy to understand."
"We have issues with the certificates. All authorization processes need certificates, however, every three months we needed to change certificates. This process iss complicated for us because Citrix does not have a not user-friendly interface and does not off user-friendly services. This needs a lot of improvement."
"I would like to see multifactor authentication added to this solution to improve the security."
"Should offer more flexible cost-effective licensing for small to medium sized organizations."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else."
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Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is ranked 18th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC). Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4, while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Simple implementation, reliable, and good dashboards". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall writes "Good feature set and is simple to deploy ". Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC and HAProxy, whereas Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), NGINX Plus, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Avi Networks Software Load Balancer and HAProxy.
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Hi,
If you are thinking about a combined solution for your ADC/WAF/LB and other security features you should check out Radware’s portfolio.
Radware a market leader in the ADC and DDOS protection industries and a Gartner leader in all of our product lines.
Our ADC solution has the most comprehensive capabilities and features limited only to Radware.
We were the first vendor to introduce a “ pay –as – you – grow” license and same goes with VA a separated virtual appliance on top of the Alteon platform.
In addition we also have the dynamic license model which unlike the competition works for both our physical platforms and the virtual once together.
We are the only vendor that allows single license for all form factors, A single GEL license can be used across all form factors: HW (vADCs) and VAs.
GEL’s license server can be deployed locally for enhanced security. Our HW platforms can be sold in a subscription model, while the completion will have to sell the platforms CAPEX model.
One of the key features for us is with GEL , when a platform is decommissioned, all of it’s capacity can be transitioned and used in VAs or in the cloud, with the competition you will loose its capacity forever.
With our offering you can also go for a throughput license that will be distributed between all of your Alteon physical appliance and virtual once no matter where they are.
Our “Secure” licensing model will allow you to spin up virtual instances to each one of your applications and enable security features on them like SSL inspection, WAF, Ip-reputation, URL-filtering and many more.
Let me know if I can assist further,
Vadim
You should consider A10 Networks' FlexPool.
https://www.a10networks.com/solutions/consumption-based-licensing?src=home&mdm=banner
FlexPool provides a centralized bandwidth pool for virtual ADC and Converged Firewall (ADC with added security features) platforms. Users can allocate the total capacity into instances of essentially any size. These instances can simultaneously reside on-premise, public, private or hybrid clouds. Only one license to manage.
My thought would be Barracuda Cloud WAF. This will work in 15 min. With lb and default templates. Go to demo.Barracuda.com
Select WAF for hardware or select cloud. Additional info ask if needed
As far as I know, Netscaler has special hardware solution SDX where you can run virtual appliance (VPX) so much as you need and license determines the total system performance. It's not a problem for scaling virtual appliance by each application. You can ask Citrix managers for details. I hope it will be helpful.