We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP DNS and Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Domain Name System (DNS) Security solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"It's very stable."
"It is easy to administer."
"BIG-IP DNS's best features are DNS monitoring and global service load balancing."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"F5 provides us with a mechanism to accomplish complex product balancing."
"The management is very easy."
"For one of our clients, F5 improved global server load balancing with an active-active site configuration for Disaster Recovery."
"BIG-IP DNS's best feature is the Global Traffic Manager (GTM)."
"I like that Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is one hundred percent good, performance-wise."
"The most valuable features of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection are the services, DHCP, and debugging. Additionally, we can use APIs and ansible scripts."
"Grid high availability technology ensured network reliability, resilient network services, failover, recovery, and seamless maintenance."
"Infoblox offers granularity and advanced DNS protection to mitigate DNS attacks. It's a very secure solution."
"The solution helps to identify and mitigate DNS attacks."
"Centralized management of DNS, DHCP, and IPAM helped us a lot in simplifying and automating the management of network and services."
"DHCP is a basic service, and they've been doing it for years, so it's mature and stable."
"The main advantages with Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection are the dashboards, the reporting system, and they have the GUI interface."
"F5's technical support responds a little slowly."
"Scalability is a concern, it could be improved."
"I would like to see more marketing documentation, rather than technical documentation."
"The solution can improve by adding cloud integration through plugins or additional configurations so we can use F5 BIG-IP DNS to communicate with the cloud."
"In the product, one of the shortcomings is related to its configuration part...Though you can find some manuals or F5 documents, in real life, it's very hard to understand this product."
"The tool needs to improve its UI."
"The costs could always be a bit lower."
"There is room for improvement in pricing. It is very pricey."
"I think only the technical documentation and administration of box could be a little bit improved."
"They should release frequent updates for its on-premises version."
"They are not supporting high query logging. They have a very limited size for the syslog, so they are usually asking for external storage, external network, and integration in order to keep the syslog. If you are considering the high volume traffic of the carrier-grade, then the syslog will hold for around five to 10 minutes. This is not enough time and it is being rotated. This is the main issue and the main limitation that we face with them that they need to work on."
"There should be better alerts for when attacks are happening."
"The solution's logging could be improved."
"Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection could be more user-friendly because you need knowledge if you want to use it. To handle the solution, you need to be a subject matter expert, so this is one area for improvement."
"Infoblox lacks an extensive product portfolio."
"The solution is expensive."
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F5 BIG-IP DNS is ranked 4th in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 18 reviews while Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is ranked 2nd in Domain Name System (DNS) Security with 12 reviews. F5 BIG-IP DNS is rated 8.6, while Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP DNS writes "Reliable with good security and management". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection writes "Stable, with good performance, and has no issues, support-wise". F5 BIG-IP DNS is most compared with EfficientIP DNS Guardian, Cisco Umbrella, BlueCat Edge and Akamai Secure Internet Access Enterprise, whereas Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection is most compared with Cisco Umbrella, Zscaler Internet Access, Palo Alto Networks DNS Security, EfficientIP DNS Guardian and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. See our F5 BIG-IP DNS vs. Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection report.
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