We performed a comparison between Microsoft System Center, NGINX Plus, and Windows Server AppFabric based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, F5, Apache and others in Application Infrastructure."The installation process is easy."
"System Center helps to create the basis for ITIL alignment."
"Managment Packs for Microsoft-specific products, help us implement the best practices for each product."
"I like the automated features of it that let you schedule those updates and the ability of the product to focus on the specific updates, specific platforms, and products that we're interested in keeping up to date."
"Good for managing and administering the infrastructure."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The solution is easily available. That's its most valuable aspect."
"The detail in the alarms is great."
"Its versatility and capabilities make it invaluable for implementing patches and fixes when necessary."
"Supports IMAP, POP and SMTP protocols for the reverse proxy."
"The best solution, by far, for web traffic control for things in production and just around the house."
"The most valuable features are the gateway and the ability to publish to sites."
"This solution has everything."
"NGINX Plus' most valuable feature is the ingress controller."
"Using NGINX Plus for web traffic distribution is fantastic. It offers performance similar to physical load balancers but with added flexibility."
"The robust software architecture allows for it to be scalable and very stable."
"The product's deployment phase was very easy."
"The most valuable feature is AppFabric's hosting solution, which is what we need for running workflows."
"It is very usable and easy to understand. Antivirus and VPN are the main features being used now. It allows my clients to access the network from home, which was very crucial because of the pandemic."
"The multi-tenancy support needs to be improved. We need to have the ability to manage several different environments from one central point of administration."
"Could be more user friendly."
"We have some bugs but it's stable. It doesn't break every day. It works. Like other applications, it has a lot of bugs but they're manageable."
"The platform performance and responsiveness need improvement. It still demands high computing resources."
"In Microsoft System Center, it is difficult to follow the steps to create dataflows at times."
"System Center hasn't updated to keep up with the industry. It needs improvements in the user interface, ease of use, and overall product functionality, particularly the cloud-monitoring features. It needs more capabilities to monitor AWS and Azure infrastructure."
"They should have some customized solutions or internal development, then maybe it could be easier to use different solutions or some self-developed solution."
"The platform's performance could be improved. Additionally, its UI needs to be well-upgraded and work faster."
"The solution needs to be easier to setup and deploy."
"I would suggest adding GUI-based configuration panels to NGINX Plus to simplify setup and management tasks."
"Lack of a feature to print data on the terminal for verification of network traffic during debugging and testing."
"The scaling should be built into the software rather than configured from an outside source."
"Our most challenging part was to run an older PHP website reverse-proxied through NGINX. That was not fun."
"The solution's GUI is an area with certain shortcomings that need improvement."
"The scalability could be improved."
"The solution must improve its performance."
"Microsoft will stop supporting the product next year, and we can't run unsupported programs in our systems."
"Its price and licensing policy can be improved. It could be a little cheaper. Licensing is sometimes confusing. There are so many different options. It is difficult to find out what to buy or what to choose for my necessity."
"The product is unable to connect with different cloud services."
