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."
"It helps with efficiency and reactivity, in case of assistance needs."
"The most valuable features are synchronizing email with mobile devices and synchronizing with Outlook."
"Exchange load balancing and reverse proxy for Skype for Business are key features."
"It is an easy-to-use, user-friendly interface, and you can set up a new VIP in a couple of minutes."
"There is a simplicity to the setup and configuration."
"Load-balancing is a great feature that is very easy to configure and it is always working fine."
"The most valuable feature that I found is the load balancing feature, it is the core function of the product."
"I like the way this solution handles multiple SSLs in different domains while still load balancing."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"They need to improve the UI environment. Currently, it's hard to navigate and use product."
"If there is anything that needs to be updated, the GUI can get a refresh to make it look more like 2020, although it is just a cosmetic change."
"There is room for improvement in the stability of the solution."
"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."
"The product is really good as-is out of the box. If there is one thing I would change is to have the license file not be coupled with the MAC address of the device. This is actually not really useful in a virtual environment where if you have a single VM with KEMP LoadMaster and you have not set up static MAC Address, if you, for example, recreate the VM and just load the disk file on a new VM it will get new MAC address and the NLB will not work as it will not see a proper license."
"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?"
"The only thing I have struggled with is setting up automatic backups."
"It would be nice if the historical metrics were easily exportable from the interface."
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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