We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Kemp LoadMaster based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"Managing and maintaining multiple servers is done in a single place."
"It has greatly fortified the performance and uptime of our front-door email ingress, simplified and segmented mail routing, and reduced admin overhead for mail issue resolution and troubleshooting."
"Using Kemp as a front-facing service appliance, it allows me to have the flexibility of swapping out real servers behind the scenes without any intervention from my network team."
"The feature I find most valuable is load balancing with different algorithms."
"The most beneficial function of using the ADC is to ensure this resiliency."
"The old process of manually having to redirect Outlook Web Access traffic and Email traffic to a second server is a thing of the past."
"The base feature of Kemp LoadMaster load balancing ticks all the boxes but the most valuable features would be the security features Intrusion Prevention (IPS) and Web Application Firewall (WAF)."
"We really like the performance of this solution."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"Several elements of the GUI need work. For example, if you have many content switches, it’s difficult to find the ones you need. And where is the search feature?"
"Although Kemp is very user-friendly, it lacks a more custom configuration."
"SNMP and/or RESTCONF management, in order to collect many counters, for plotting in a central application need to be improved."
"Hardware version needs a dual power solution."
"It would be very helpful to get all the http/https session logs by default in the log monitor without activating debugging mode like an apache web sever natively does"
"In the next release, Kemp should include the ability for LoadMaster to create different DNS record types."
"The cost of the GEO upgrade is not cost-prohibitive but it's something that would be a nice add-in, out of the box."
"I definitely think that the WAF can be improved."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Kemp LoadMaster is ranked 7th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 48 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Kemp LoadMaster is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Kemp LoadMaster writes "Reliable, easy to set up, and can increase your security score". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas Kemp LoadMaster is most compared with HAProxy, NGINX Plus, Fortinet FortiADC, Citrix NetScaler and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM).
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