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."The price is very good, and it's not very expensive."
"Barracuda's technical support is good - whenever we have an issue, they immediately connect and resolve it."
"Initial setup was straightforward. We were up and running in three hours."
"It is the perfect solution when you have high workloads in your IT environment."
"The solution has good load balancing capabilities."
"F5's attack signatures and automation are the most valuable features. The disaster recovery capabilities are also excellent. You don't need to do anything. It has automatic failover from production."
"The solution is easy to install. It's a straightforward process."
"The tech support we got from F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager directly was pretty good."
"Currently, it's distributing the load perfectly, as per my understanding of our requirements."
"The setup is pretty easy."
"Load Balancer ADC is competitively priced, but it's not feature-rich, and its technology is not that advanced."
"The quality of the solution's performance could be improved."
"It's a very expensive solution."
"BIG-IP LTM is taking a long time to mature in cloud environments. They plan to improve cloud integration in the next version, but it isn't out yet. It's essential because more companies are moving to the cloud these days and using things like Kubernetes or microservices. F5 needs to improve in that direction, and they are."
"Needs to provide a visual interface to follow a customer's activity (from client to BIG-IP to SNAT IP to the chosen server, then back). Today, we are still performing packet captures."
"Certificate management needs improvement. I would like automated deployment of new certificates without manual intervention to be in the next release of this product."
"The SharePoint SSO part has some room for improvement."
"The solution's hardware quality needs improvement."
"The deployment could be simplified."
"I would like them to expand load balancing, being able to go across multiple regions to on-premise and into the cloud. This could use improvement, as it is sometimes a little cumbersome."
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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 "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". 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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