We performed a comparison between Barracuda Load Balancer ADC and Fortinet FortiADC 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."
"Ease of use in deploying and having it up and running requires minimal knowledge."
"Fortinet FortiADC is a good product because each and every piece of content is monitored by it."
"Simple to use and easy to integrate."
"The most valuable feature is the SSL offloading capacity."
"The solution provides high-level services such as availability, redundancy, and load balancing between servers."
"The GSLB, the DR side, is the best part. Because we had our main side in one city, we created another, and we had a complete MPLS over the internet. We used the GSLB and data loss for our business applications."
"From a technical perspective, it is the most scalable device from Fortinet."
"The main feature that we use is GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). GSLB makes the customer's network more reliable by scaling applications across multiple datacenters. GSLB as a disaster recovery solution can direct traffic based on site availability."
"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."
"I think it would be helpful if Fortinet put more video examples on their cookbook site."
"Issues with SSL and encrypted traffic."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"The configuration is relatively complex."
"Setup could be easier. The company's homework is to redesign those menus to configure with the smallest number of steps."
"FortiADC is complex to configure so the interface should be improved."
"The product's stability for VMs could be better."
"The solution's WAF needs an upgrade because it is not as good as FortiWeb, VMware, F5, or Imperva."
Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is ranked 14th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 3 reviews while Fortinet FortiADC is ranked 8th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 19 reviews. Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is rated 7.4, while Fortinet FortiADC is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Barracuda Load Balancer ADC writes "Cost-effective but lacking features and integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiADC writes "High-level load balancing and routing protocols but scalability is limited to 200 gigabits". Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and HAProxy, whereas Fortinet FortiADC is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Fortinet FortiWeb, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and Imperva DDoS. See our Barracuda Load Balancer ADC vs. Fortinet FortiADC report.
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