We performed a comparison between Barracuda Web Application Firewall, F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), and Loadbalancer.org based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, F5 and others in Web Application Firewall (WAF)."You don't need help from Barracuda to help with the deployment. The deployment is easy."
"The stability of the product is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is stable and the performance is good."
"We use Barracuda to protect the application. That's the main feature we use it for."
"Setup of this solution is straightforward. It's a stable and scalable solution, with good performance and fast technical support."
"Even when we were upgrading to a new OS, we didn't have any difficulties with the product. The stability is good."
"We only need one subscription to be protected against both active DDoS and offline DDoS attacks."
"The solution has been quite stable. It's reliable."
"The value and impact of using F5 BIG-IP LTM for application delivery control in our organization are significant."
"There is a lot of documentation available."
"Users can see a remarkable performance difference from a qualitative sense."
"It is a fast and available solution."
"The feature I find the most valuable is the support infrastructure."
"The product is very stable. We put a decent amount of stress on it given our load."
"It can determine if the system is going down, then route the traffic somewhere else."
"The most valuable feature of F5 BIG-IP LTM is brand image and recognition and the application delivery controller."
"The SSL Layer 7 load balancing is valuable."
"The features I find valuable in this solution are the ease of managing the logs on the WAFs, the ease to identify break-in attempts into the network, the front-end firewall, and a more specific firewall."
"It's pretty much a Swiss Army knife for managing all the load balancing techniques."
"We can more easily set up a test environment, because you can easily configure your forms. It makes it more flexible for us, to convert our test environment to a production environment, without having to change DNSs on the outside. You just configure the forms on the inside. So without changing the actual endpoint for the end user, we can create completely different networks in the background."
"I found scalability in Loadbalancer.org valuable."
"The user interface precludes need to be well versed with Linux IPVS command line. This make it easy for junior team members to participate in managing load balancing needs."
"The connection that this solution helps our servers maintain has been most useful."
"Existing customers are trying to migrate from the physical F5 load balancer to the AVI load balancer because it is scalable and easily managed."
"The platform's pricing needs improvement."
"The policy updates could be improved."
"It is not stable nor mature."
"While the UI is good, it can get a little bit complicated."
"If you know nothing about networks, then you can't set it up."
"Barracuda Web Application Firewall’s scalability needs improvement."
"Its interface can be better. It is not very friendly."
"The incident reporting needs to be improved."
"The pricing of the product is a bit too high."
"The UI could be improved."
"The synchronization does works fairly well. However, if I were to make changes, I would make it easier to start the sync process."
"Native support for containers should be added to future releases, as this is the future of load balancing."
"An expensive solution for the minimal features we use."
"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."
"Internet and cloud support could be improved."
"I would like there to be more device security. I would like the tool to support SSL links, along with SSL and TLS."
"It would be great if there was a way to gain access to the graphing data, to create custom reports. If we had a way to use the graphing data, we could use it to present certain information to our client, such as the uptime status for their service."
"We could enhance the security aspects of the load balancer."
"You can run into an issue when one engineer passes the case over to another engineer after their shift and they don't know what the first engineer worked on up to that point."
"The configuration is somewhat complicated. Someone who does not know the solution may find this challenging."
"The solution can be a bit pricey."
"It doesn't have the bonding capability feature."
"There are many features you can set in the backend of Loadbalancer. They should simplify the configuration. The administrator should be able to configure it more simply. How it is now, you can only configure it if you have a lot of experience."
"I'd like to see scalability improved; it can be costly."
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