We performed a comparison between F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) and Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."We always use technical support and the team helps us very well. They're able to effectively find and fix issues and they respond very quickly."
"F5 has many capabilities for load balancing and web application firewall features."
"The scalability of the solution depends on the sizing of the network. Generally, the scalability is quite good."
"We have multiple solutions we can deploy through the F5."
"LTM's most valuable features include application security, data collection, and parameter-level rules."
"Load balancing generally brings high availability and a bigger ability to scale out. In some cases, it brings security, depending on how it is configured."
"Routing and load balancing are its most valuable features."
"Good application firewall."
"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."
"The user interface of F5 BIG-IP LTM is old and could improve."
"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."
"If we decide to migrate to the cloud, I don't think that BIG-IP is a good solution and we probably won't use it."
"They need to develop the reporting tools further."
"Not everything is intuitive."
"My only point of contention would be that it is a little pricey."
"We would like to see load balancing between the cloud and the on-premise, a straightforward deployment feature."
"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."
"In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else."
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F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 117 reviews while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is ranked 18th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC). F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2, while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Reduces maintenance downtime and has a strong user community". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall writes "Good feature set and is simple to deploy ". F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, NGINX Plus and A10 Networks Thunder ADC, whereas Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, NGINX Plus and Microsoft Azure Application Gateway.
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