Citrix NetScaler Primary Use Case
Citrix ADC is deployed on our VMware cluster. We use Citrix ADC for Virtual Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI), load balancing, and SSL offloading.
View full review »We use it for load balancing, creating a gateway to the Internet, and establishing a remote VPN connection.
View full review »We used Citrix NetScaler for load balancing in our application, where our users connect via the portal. This portal is load-balanced via a ServiceNet NetScaler. Additionally, our core banking application also runs on this infrastructure.
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Citrix NetScaler
March 2024
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Richard Hussain
Solutions Architect, Virtualization
There have been several uses, but mostly in a data center where security is required and where they can utilize a lot of load-balancing services.
View full review »We utilize Citrix NetScaler primarily as a load balancer, gateway, and application delivery controller. Employees connect to NetScaler, which then distributes sessions to Citrix Studio Server.
In terms of network performance, NetScaler has consistently provided reliable load balancing, preventing session timeouts and queuing issues. It's proven to be a solid and versatile tool over the years.
View full review »Our organization uses Citrix NetScaler for application load balancing, global server load balancing, and web application firewall. We also use its gateway feature for remote connectivity.
View full review »We use this solution for Layer 7 load balancing for our clients, as well as single sign-on functionality, and uploading the data from their applications.
View full review »The solution is used primarily for load balancing and content switching, but we also use it for VPN, SSL VPN, and ICA Proxy. One of the bigger use cases that comes up often is web application firewalling and security. There's a lot of growth in our clients' environments at the moment. There's also significant regulatory compliance required and we deploy ADC with multifactor authentication to have a layer of protection for our customer information. We are partners of Citrix and resellers of this solution.
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reviewer2283573
Junior System Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We provide services to our customers related to Citrix ADC.
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Rodrigo Martin
CEO Iberia & Latam at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees
We have Citrix StoreFront to access everything from a remote desk. We use it with Office 365 so that we can access Teams.
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JoseFernandez
Technical Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
I use Citrix NetScaler as a gateway to provide secure access to virtualized desktops and applications.
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Murathan Ok
Department manager at a media company with 10,001+ employees
We're using NetScaler for compression and optimization features.
View full review »We use it for web applications, firewalling, EDOS protection, load balancing, and content switching. There are quite a lot of use cases that we use it for. It just depends on what the client requires. It's a multi-purpose software.
We used it mainly for GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). It was the intelligent DNS service.
View full review »There are two major verticals for Citrix: VDI and NetScaler. For NetScaler, our major use cases are database load balancing, PowerVPN VPN access gateway, WAF (Web Application Firewall), and content switching. But most of them are for load balancing, access gateway, and VPN for NetScaler.
And for VDI, the major use cases are definitely securing the data and centralizing the entire infrastructure to the data center. Another major use case is publishing in-house applications for end-users who are working from home or from remote locations.
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Reginald Bentley
System Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We are just publishing applications. We have some clients who need access to these. So, we're hosting the applications for clients. We're also publishing VDIs and using it for processing VDIs.
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Zhanat Azykeyev
IT Account Manager at Dis Group
My clients use it for load balancing.
View full review »We deploy it for enterprise customers and some schools that are located in Denmark.
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Flight9875
Works at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees
From a NetScaler perspective, in terms of LTM, not GSLB, NetScasler has performed very well. In comparison to F5, it holds its own.
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Letarik Terefe
IT Project Management /Research & Development Team Leader at Ethiopian Roads Administration
For our VDI setup, we have two types of Citrix Netscaler solutions: one for providing application and desktop services, and another for load balancing. We sometimes face challenges like virtual appliances becoming unregistered, but we usually resolve them through checklists. Overall, Netscaler works well for load balancing in our infrastructure.
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reviewer1987287
General Manager & founder at a engineering company with 11-50 employees
I use Citrix NetScaler to secure and reliable access to our back-end applications hosted in our data center. With its robust features like SSL security, content switching, load balancing, and application firewalling, it streamlines traffic management and enhances overall performance while keeping our data safe from threats.
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Mohammed Shamseldin Hassan
Manager - Cybersecurity & Cloud Solutions at Paramount Computer Systems
It has many use cases. It is used for the high availability of the service and for connecting local sites or geolocation sites called GSNP.
We are selling all of its models. Citrix ADC can be deployed on the cloud or on-premises.
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PradeepKumar11
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We have published our applications via Citrix and then given access to the business users to access those specific applications via Citrix. We have many applications where multiple users need access - whether it's an EVS or a CRM, all these have been published to Citrix. We also use the solution for the ADC. ADC is a front end, wherein I get queries, and we'll get all the requests from internal and external users as well.
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Vitor Arruda
IT Infrastructure Analyst at WEG
Our primary use case is the hosting and delivering of web applications.
View full review »I use the solution for its access gateway and endpoint management features to balance services.
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reviewer1987287
General Manager & founder at a engineering company with 11-50 employees
There's a very powerful content switching capability, load balancing capability, and SSL offloading, layer-to-firewall capabilities, routine capabilities, policies, and rewrite policy capabilities. So there are a lot of capabilities in this solution.
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Kumar Murugesan
Technical Support Engineer at Greenware Technologies LLC
Citrix NetScaler is an Application Delivery Controller which we use to manage our gateway load balancing and web solution.
We mostly use VPN and enroll the NetScaler.
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Artem Mikryukov
System Engeneer at CROC
Citrix ADC is primarily used for load balancing exchange and other internal IT systems.
View full review »It is mainly used for virtual desktop delivery for remote access. We are also using it for load balancing and SSL VPN.
View full review »We use the NetScaler ADC in three primary use cases. The first is to provide load balancing services for our internal applications. The second is for Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) to provide data center resiliency and failover of our externally accessible services, as well as proximity-based access. The third is for the Unified Gateway to securely provide external access to some of our key applications. We deploy VPX appliances running in our VMware environment.
View full review »We solely use this solution for Citrix remote access.
View full review »We use it for our clients' the desktops for their virtual machines.
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Craig Parker
Workplace Virtualisation Senior Analyst at AXA
- Load balancing business web applications
- Load balancing core infrastructure services e.g. App-V, Ivanti UWM, Citrix Storefront and Director
- Application firewall features WAF for more secure application access
- XenApp/XenDesktop application gateway with two factor authentication
- Use of MAS for analytics and centralised management
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reviewer1282383
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We use Citrix NetScaler for policy URLs for web applications and RDP for Windows servers.
View full review »The main use of Citrix NetScaler was for application integration. My clients wanted their applications to be managed through Citrix NetScaler.
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Abel Camarillo
Gerente Divisional at Tecnologia Especializada Asociada de México, S.A. De C.V
We used this mostly for disaster recovery plan (DRP), for global service load balancing, and Citrix Access Gateway.
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Eseoghene Charles-Adeoye
Head, Network Design at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We primarily use the solution for load balancing and SSL offloading. It's mostly for load balancing, however, occasionally we use it for the SSL offloading and content switching.
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reviewer1187169
Senior Server Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
We are using Citrix ADC as a VPN appliance, and use it as a load balancer for a few different services.
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reviewer2289105
Programator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
I use Citrix NetScaler in my company for mostly two-factor authentication.
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MURAT DEMIREL
Founder at ASSISTA
We are using Citrix ADC for SSL offloads and security, secure remote access, loads balancing, and application firewall, web application firewall.
View full review »My primary use case is for disaster recovery.
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Michael Ewhe
Enterprise Server and Storage Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees
We basically use it for money transactions, important call centers, and cash centers.
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AdedolapoBadaru
Network Support Officer at Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc
The primary use of this solution is application delivery. It provides access.
This solution is a gateway to the public cloud.
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Eseoghene Charles-Adeoye
Head, Network Design at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We use it for load balancing.
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reviewer1323054
Principal IT Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our primary use cases are for the different local LANs and for exchange, a local LAN SharePoint, a local LAN for web applications and for different RDP, remote desktop publishing solutions, a local LAN for intranet, web applications, internal web applications, etc. and for all command switching and full VPN gateway for Citrix and for apps and desktops. We deal with enterprise companies, so around 5,000 users. I'm the Senior Principal IT Consultant in our organization.
We primarily use it for load balancers.
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Syed Basha
IT Cyber Security / IT-DR / BC Specialist at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
We are a solution provider and when we need to implement application delivery control then Citrix ADC is one of the products that we suggest to our clients.
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ChiragMehta
Network & Security Lead at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees
We used it to manage a data center hosting environment and had more than 250 HA pairs of Citrix NetScalers (both physical and virtual) to maintain/manage customer environments. Each environment was different, each was a customer-dedicated environment.
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reviewer1220262
Customer Service Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
This solution acts as my web server, web application server, firewall, and load balancer. I also use it for IPSec 4 to IPSec 6 conversion.
View full review »The primary use for using it is the wholesale application and VDIs.
I have been working the cost factors, while the performance and application are good, the factory cost brought back to you is not. Therefore, we are currently comparing the product with Microsoft RemoteApp.
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JacquesBodenstein
Senior Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
The primary use case of this solution is to serve as gateway.
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OMKaewsaenchai
Total Solution System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
We are a Citrix solution adviser and one of the main Citrix partners in Bangkok, Thailand. We use Citrix NetScaler ADC to get user access to business applications on desktop devices.
With Citrix NetScaler ADC we can centralize desktop application management for everything.
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reviewer786540
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
SSL offloading, load balancing, HTTP analysis and manipulation (HTTP rewrites, inserts, redirects) for web applications. Load balancing other ERP applications and Exchange.
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Berk Sadik
Solution consultant at Demsistem Bilgi ve Teknolojileri Ltd. Sti.
Internal Load Balancing and Content switching features are the main reasons for selecting this product.
View full review »The primary use case is a low balancing geo failover. However, there are a lot of use cases that we use it for.
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reviewer1010148
Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We are only using it for load balancing and application firewalls.
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reviewer1263516
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We are using NetScaler VPX as a gateway for our virtual applications and desktops.
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Olayinka Adetijanwa
Solution Architect at ReDoy Corporation
We primarily use the solution for network load balancing on the edge of the network.
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reviewer1270815
Business Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Our company is based in Ecuador. I'm a key account manager and a business consultant.
View full review »Our primary use case for the product is server load balancing, specifically the application level.
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Андрей Шевченко
Software Engineer at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
This product helps with load balancing. As an engineer, I help implement this for our company.
View full review »The NetScaler is used for front-end enterprise applications as well as Citrix deployments. We generally see deployments for secure remote access. In some cases, global load balancing is used in multi-data center deployments.
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reviewer1263516
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We use Citrix NetScaler as an access gateway for many virtual apps and desktops. We're also using the solution for load-balancing and content-switching purposes.
View full review »Provides secure remote access to, as well as intelligent load-balancing for, internal resources.
View full review »- Load balancing
- Application gateway
- SSL offloading
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reviewer898881
Security Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
We are using it for two-factor authentication for our Citrix architecture, for secure access to our internal applications. It is mostly for admins who use it for remote access, as well as some users.
We do not use it as a web application firewall. We are running a virtual edition, not an appliance.
I implemented this solution for customers who were looking to achieve high-availability and resiliency of their business servers, through load balancing.
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reviewer1140936
Business Consultant. at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
We primarily use the solution as a device for connections from our mobile corporate devices to our infrastructure.
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Kumar Murugesan
Technical Support Engineer at Greenware Technologies LLC
We are using this Citrix ADC with Windows Applications and desktop delivery.
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Citrix NetScaler
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about Citrix NetScaler. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.