We performed a comparison between Barracuda Load Balancer ADC and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."Barracuda's technical support is good - whenever we have an issue, they immediately connect and resolve it."
"The price is very good, and it's not very expensive."
"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."
"The most helpful thing is that it's open-source. It's very easy to program and customize."
"It has so many features. First of all, it has a full proxy architecture, it has multiple modules. The best feature is the WAF, the web application firewall module. It also has cashing type capabilities. It has all kinds of load-balancing algorithms based on your IT requirements."
"It can determine if the system is going down, then route the traffic somewhere else."
"It makes the publishing of applications to the Internet safer."
"It is stable."
"The detail that you have available when setting up iRules."
"Secure and scalable traffic management solution for applications. Good for bigger environments."
"The quality of the solution's performance could be improved."
"Load Balancer ADC is competitively priced, but it's not feature-rich, and its technology is not that advanced."
"The pricing model has caused some frustration. My clients implemented the solution and later wanted to upgrade the features but the pricing structure was complicated. There are other solutions with better pricing models."
"I think the logging could be improved."
"Native support for containers should be added to future releases, as this is the future of load balancing."
"If one virtual portion is unavailable, it can cause issues."
"F5 BIG-IP LTM can improve on the SSL loading which includes the authentication of certificates. Although, most of these issues have been solved there are still some issue that persists."
"There is room for improvement in the user interface."
"The deployment could be simplified."
"F5 could improve the rule-setting capabilities in the GUI, and they need to simplify web management. For example, the menus in the Citrix GUI are easier to navigate, with a clean structure and layout."
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Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is ranked 14th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 3 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is rated 7.4, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda Load Balancer ADC writes "Cost-effective but lacking features and integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is most compared with Fortinet FortiADC, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and HAProxy, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and OpenVPN Access Server. See our Barracuda Load Balancer ADC vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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