Citrix NetScaler Valuable Features

Timur Gadjiev - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Head of Network Security at DOM.RF

The most valuable feature of Citrix ADC is its ease of use.

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Rohit Ghorpade - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud network engineer at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Co. Ltd.

One of its most valuable features is fundamental load balancing, supporting both basic load balancing and database teams.

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Mazhar Khan - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Spend and Alliances (RVP) at Faysal Bank Ltd

Citrix NetScaler has its capabilities and benefits. From a security standpoint, It is a comprehensive solution in a single box. We also have additional features such as gateway and global service load balancing. Furthermore, there's a provision for expanding data capacity.

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Citrix NetScaler
March 2024
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RH
Solutions Architect, Virtualization

As an architect, I have deployed it in so many areas. Some like to use the SSL portion of it, others, they use the load-balancing. It does a lot more than what people use it for. The one feature that works really well is the SSL VPN. It's very easy to set up and you can go very granular with it. You can define what user groups get what kind of access and the management overhead is very low.

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DEMİRHAN ÇAVUŞOĞLU - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Consultant at Migros Ticaret A.Ş.

One of the most beneficial features for application delivery is its integration with Citrix Storefront, facilitating user logins and ensuring continuity during data center outages.

 I can't speak much about NetScaler's security features as I'm not involved in managing them.

NetScaler's impact on operations has been significant, ensuring smooth traffic distribution and minimizing employee complaints about system performance.

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Shejoor Kulangara - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at Diyar United Company

The web application firewall is one feature I found valuable in the solution.

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Wissam Richani - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network , Cyber Security And Infrastructure Engineer at IFE

The load balancing feature of this solution is very good.

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it_user1295586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Citrix Engineer at Troye

The web application firewalling component is probably the most powerful feature as it can identify attacks on the network at an application level which is quite important. There is also good functionality where we use IP reputation and geofencing to mitigate threats from the outside world.

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JG
Junior System Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The reverse proxy for virtual apps and desktops, along with load balancing, stands out as the most valuable feature. The flexibility in configuration options is impressive.

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RM
CEO Iberia & Latam at a recruiting/HR firm with 10,001+ employees

The solution is very stable.

The product is scalable. 

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JF
Technical Manager at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

Citrix NetScaler offers robust security features, including SmartAccess and customizable policies, making it a reliable choice for safeguarding user data. The seamless integration with Citrix tools enhances both performance and security, creating a powerful combination for optimal IT environments.

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MO
Department manager at a media company with 10,001+ employees

Most of the functions are user-friendly and great. We also have mobile features that are simple but effective.

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Retief Zietsman - PeerSpot reviewer
Citricx solution achitecht at Troye

It's a well-rounded, well-featured product that is quite flexible in terms of covering quite a lot of use cases depending on the client's environment.

It's quite a competitive solution if you compare it to others. It's one of the market leaders in terms of functionality and features.

It's a stable product.

The solution can scale.  

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Anu Vijayarajah - PeerSpot reviewer
Cloud Network Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I found that the GUI was very easy to to navigate. If you were looking for something, it was fairly easy to find. There's a lot of third-party documentation and information available online as well.

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VivekKumar10 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at Virajo

For VDI, centralization, data protection, and data management are the most important features. As for NetScaler, its key features include a firewall, GSLB, load balancing, and an actual gateway. These are the four tiers of NetScalers.

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Nirav_Shah - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Solutions Architect at MindTree

Compared to other solutions, Citrix ADC is much more robust in terms of the native integration to cloud platforms. It is far more robust from an operational point of view as well.

Their support is also pretty good.

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RB
System Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Citrix Director has been great. It gives us one pane of glass to be able to monitor what's going on with the user sessions as well as to keep on top of the virtual desktops, any servers that may be offline or behaving suspiciously, or any troublesome spots like disconnections. 

We also use Citrix Studio for maintaining the actual servers that are hosting these applications. We use it for delivery groups in case we need to modify delivery groups in regards to which groups have access to which applications. It has been very helpful.

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it_user1226787 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Vodafone

The load balancing is one of the most valuable features. We have several load balancing solutions like F5 and Fortinet.

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FM
Works at a logistics company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I can turn on features without actually owning a license. I can test them out, I can use them for a while, and then I can be licensed up. That's awesome. I don't have to have a license immediately before I can start to deploy things rapidly, rapid deployment is a plus.

When I compare it to F5 from a hardware or software perspective, they both have their glitches. From a software perspective, either one is not without code bugs.

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LD
IT Project Management /Research & Development Team Leader at Ethiopian Roads Administration

Citrix Netscaler makes it easy to provide services to end users, offering better visibility into user sessions compared to VMware. However, instability in network or machine can cause headaches as it's hard to pinpoint issues. SSL offload feature enhances security posture by providing secure connectivity between end users and backend systems. We use additional Azure remote security solutions for comprehensive protection.

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PV
Senior Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Not many of our customers use the solution's web application firewall. We use the solution's IP Reputation and bot protection features. We use the solution mostly as Citrix and Gateway ICA proxy and load balancing. There are a lot of changes with the solution, but Citrix NetScaler has quite a comprehensive portfolio of training courses.

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PL
General Manager & founder at a engineering company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature for us is the application firewalling in Citrix NetScaler, ensuring only valid traffic enters our environment. Additionally, it provides insights into the origin and destination of traffic within our data center, giving us control and visibility over our network performance.

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MH
Manager - Cybersecurity & Cloud Solutions at Paramount Computer Systems

High availability, performance, scalability, and security are the main pillars. It enhances the security for accessing the applications.

It is very user-friendly, and it works fine. The management of the device is very easy from a technical perspective.

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PK
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is easy to use. It's very easy to configure. The solution is not very difficult.

Performance-wise it's okay. The solution is stable. 

The solution is easy to set up and the deployment process is quite fast.

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VA
IT Infrastructure Analyst at WEG

The most valuable feature is the management and application delivery for Layer 7 traffic.

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Aaron Finkelberg - PeerSpot reviewer
HCI & Citrix Senior Systems Engineer at Teleconsys

The solution's most valuable features are low latency, reverse proxy, content switching, and access gateway.

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PL
General Manager & founder at a engineering company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature is SSL offloading.

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VA
IT Infrastructure Analyst at WEG
  • Load Balancing: Why? Availability/Performance: Those are the core features of the product and the main reason for the purchase of an ADC in my company. These features bring a lot of resources that improve the experience of the users.
  • NetScaler Gateway: Why? Availability/Security: We delivered more than 200 applications thru Xenapp. This feature give us the possibility to deliver the applications anywhere. Currently, 30% of access is made through our NetScaler Gateway (Internet connections).
  • Global Server Load Balancing: Why? Availability: Bring us the possibility to load balance our ISPs links, delivering DNS responses thru available ISP providers.
  • Reverse Proxy/AAA Authentication: Why? Availability/Security: Many local websites/applications are now available through the internet, with NetScaler acting as reverse proxy, and through AAA authentication in order to authenticate only necessary users.
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KM
Technical Support Engineer at Greenware Technologies LLC

Citrix NetScaler is a complete solution that is customizable, easy to configure, and has the most features.

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Lakshminarayanan Raj - PeerSpot reviewer
Leader Information Security at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The most valuable feature is the SSL VPN.

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AM
System Engeneer at CROC

It is simple for both IT specialists and customers. With other products, we cannot leave the customer untrained. We can leave the customer during the early stages using Citrix ADC.

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Ramesh Boopathi - PeerSpot reviewer
Competency Leader - Virtualization at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The load balancing and VPN features are most valuable. AAA authentication is also valuable. 

They have specific integration with the product line for application virtualization and desktop virtualization.

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HU
Sr. Technical Architect at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I like app flows and custom flows. They integrate with multiple flows.

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it_user173682 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Network Systems Engineer at a manufacturing company with 51-200 employees

The features I find most useful are 

  • Load Balancing
  • GSLB
  • Unified Gateway.

I love being able to terminate connections to the boxes and look at all of the packet headers to determine which way I want to send the traffic next. GSLB provides amazing ability to do active/active or active/passive deployment of services. Unified Gateway allows me to provide secure external access to applications for suppliers and customers while requiring Multi-Factor Authentication.

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Djurre Woudstra - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a legal firm with 201-500 employees

We appreciate that this solution facilitates our access to Citrix internet.

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UzochikwaEnunwa - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise architect at Kyndryl

I like the ease of use. It's easy to manage. I also like it's ease of use with virtualization technologies with applications.

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CP
Workplace Virtualisation Senior Analyst at AXA

NetScaler MAS centralised management and analytics makes it is easy to support, manage, monitor, and maintain a NetScaler solution.

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JL
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Reducing the content searching to publishing your web application, the OTP for two-factor authentication is the most valuable feature of NetScaler.

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Rajnish Niraj - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Fencesense

The most valuable feature of  Citrix NetScaler was the seamless integration. Additionally, the UI is good.

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AC
Gerente Divisional at Tecnologia Especializada Asociada de México, S.A. De C.V

What I found most valuable from Citrix ADC were the Content Switching and Integrated Caching features which were the things we commonly installed for our customers.

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EC
Head, Network Design at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The load balancing on the solution is excellent.

The fact that you can do content switching is very useful.

The pricing is pretty good.

The solution is easy to work with and manage.

It's cloud-ready and we can manage it both on-premises and on the cloud if we need to.

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FZ
Senior Server Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I find all of it to be valuable, because of the flexibility that is built into this product.

If we need an on-premises load balancer, it's easy enough to spin those up here an there and the VPN seems to be pretty solid as well.

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DD
Programator at a computer software company with 11-50 employees

The most valuable feature of the solution is the two-factor authentication.

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MD
Founder at ASSISTA

The most valuable features of Citrix ADC are load balancing and application firewall.

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Rizwan Chishti - PeerSpot reviewer
Techinal Solution Manager/ Hybrid Cloud Enterprise Architect at Kyndryl

The best feature of Citrix is its track record of stability in its features.

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ME
Enterprise Server and Storage Administrator at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

Its flexibility, agility, and robustness are the most valuable. Its management and implementation are also quite easy.

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AB
Network Support Officer at Flour Mills of Nigeria Plc

The most valuable feature of this solution is that it is very light. Once you log in, you have your applications delivered. It is not heavy over the internet or the web.

My customers have told me that the performance of this solution is good.

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EC
Head, Network Design at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

The load balancing feature and the fact that you can do context switching in the WAF are the most valuable. We majorly use it for load balancing, but we also use it for context switching in the WAF. It is also robust and very easy to work with and manage.

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MB
Principal IT Consultant at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

Citrix is a complete solution for those looking for an all-in-one. It's all there, the NetScaler gateway, remote access, internet access, optimization, load balancing, you have Citrix desktop publishing and VDAs. You can create a complete solution with Citrix. That's a good thing. If you have to troubleshoot something there's no problem like you would have if you were working between different solutions. If you're dealing with different manufacturers, there's always a problem with troubleshooting - nobody wants to take responsibility.

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Shejoor Kulangara - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Solution Architect at Diyar United Company

There are multiple features that I have found to be valuable including load balancing, supply authentication, web for application firewall, and the reverse proxy.

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SB
IT Cyber Security / IT-DR / BC Specialist at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

Manageability and visibility are good.

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CM
Network & Security Lead at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

Content Switching since it provides flexibility for routing traffic as desired to designated real servers. It also provides good geo capabilities through its GSLB feature.

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MR
Customer Service Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature is load balancing. This solution will do both global and local load balancing.

The WAF features are very helpful.

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it_user824772 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature would be the Citrix permanent server.

It is cost-effective, if you consider the permanent server. Also, the management is easy with no downtimes. 

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it_user143286 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Consultant/Program Mgmt at Consultant

Load Balancer and Access Gateway

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JB
Senior Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The features I find most valuable are the gateway feature and the SQL load-balancing that you can do as well.

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OK
Total Solution System Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

It mobilizes everything in and out, leading over bandwidth and manages all of the applications. We use it for front-end crafting.

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it_user197484 - PeerSpot reviewer
System Administrator with 501-1,000 employees

There are a lot of them: 

  • Load balancing in communications 
  • Global load balancing between data centers 
  • The management 
  • Easy integration with other Citrix products. 

In the management topic, there are three levels: 

  1. 1st Level, most user-friendly, the GUI, in this level we can configures all the features and inclusive test the implementations. 
  2. 2nd Level Console, very helpful for easy access to all settings and troubleshooting problems, deep level in settings. 
  3. 3rd Level Shell, essential to troubleshooting. Direct access to all logging in the components.

Easy integration with Citrix Solution, NetScaler has wizards to help implementation of Citrix solutions, like XenApp/XenDesktop and Xenmobile.

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JC
System Administrator at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

HTTP analysis and action. We have a lot of custom web applications that sometimes require custom header insertions. Some of these custom apps are external and, via the Content Switching, we can use one IP and leverage various back-end web app servers.

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KM
Infrastructure Project Manager and Architect at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the content switching. 

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BS
Solution consultant at Demsistem Bilgi ve Teknolojileri Ltd. Sti.

It depends on your needs. 

  • If you need PCI-compliance and have high security requirements, WAF is the most valuable feature. 
  • If you need to monitor your load-balancing services with complex types of monitoring, make sure everything is alright, and load balancing is important, Content Switching and Monitoring features are the keys to your needs.
  • If you want to provide a lot of static images or data, the Caching feature works best for you.

We have used all the functions. I would say the rewriting and redirection functions are must-have's for us.

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it_user848784 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect with 10,001+ employees
  • Global servers
  • Load balancing

We need multi-site and DNS failover.

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it_user180294 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Specialist at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • Easy to configure the settings
  • Easy to operate
  • A lot of useful network and other great settings
  • A lot of official and unofficial documentations are available on the internet
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YU
Security Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The feature that I have found most valuable is its load balancing.

Citrix ADC is actually not the most preferable product from our perspective but for the virtual desktop use it is very efficient. It's very integrated with the virtual desktop. It has a seamless integration and that is the most valuable part.

Since it has a significant integration with its virtualization, that has improved the usability access of the virtual desktops.

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JH
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The most valuable feature is the securing of virtual apps and desktops.

This solution increases the backend network service performance, which is one of the things that we like the most.

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OA
Solution Architect at ReDoy Corporation

The solution's most valuable feature is the content.

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it_user516588 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Systems Administrator at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
  • Web Application Firewall
  • Content Switching Applications
  • SSL Handling
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MA
Business Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

With Citrix ADC, our clients can improve their security, performance, and they can escalate when they need it. It's a complete solution for application delivery and security.

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it_user858369 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Vice President at Nagarro

The most valuable feature is the capability of performing load balancing in a virtual environment.

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it_user845064 - PeerSpot reviewer
EUC Architect with 1,001-5,000 employees

The NetScaler Gateway has been extremely valuable for many reasons. We make use of the load balancing capabilities, including SSL offload and GSLB for high availability. The MAS integration for HDX Insight has provided teams with significant visibility into network performance of the user's connection.

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it_user4851 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Expert at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees
Does great job on most ADC functions: load balancing, SSL offload, responder policies, etc View full review »
JH
Technical Manager at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

What I like most about Citrix NetScaler is its stability, and I didn't see a lot of issues with it.

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it_user873417 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Virtualization Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

I like the monitoring ability as it enables me to identify when an internal (load-balanced) resource is having issues before it becomes a problem in production.

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MS
network specialist at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Load balancing, cache redirection, content switching, all connected with traffic management.

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it_user872688 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

Load Balancing and SSL offloading are key features.

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PM
Security Specialist at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature, absolutely, is its high-security. This product is based on Unix and there have been no problems since we started using it in 2015.

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it_user873411 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Consultant at a tech services company
  • Load balancing
  • Netscaler Gateway
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it_user88647 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
  • LB - Load balancing
  • SSL Offload
  • Content Switching
  • Responder
  • Re-write
  • App Firewall
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it_user3834 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Citrix main strong-point is its flexible deployment model, which can help customers save on acquisition costs at the onset. The TriScale architecture that the Citrix sales guys have been pushing provides a pay as you grow deployment model. It also allows us to consolidate devices with features such as multitenancy and clustering. Other features like SSL offload for 2048-bit and 4096-bit key lenghts and good traffic and application reporting capabilities makes our investment in this product worthwhile.They seem to have pretty competent and responsive technical support. View full review »
TZ
Business Consultant. at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

Authorization from mobile diverse for end-users to our infrastructure is a valuable feature. 

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KM
Technical Support Engineer at Greenware Technologies LLC

The most valuable features are the VDA Delivery, Gateway Fort, and the load balancing.

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it_user311946 - PeerSpot reviewer
Citrix / Virtualization Pre-Sales and Implementation Engg. at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

Content Redirection and SSO integration with Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop. The GUI was wonderful. Content Redirection based on application data is a wonderful feature which works absolutely fine with most of the web application, and it has good logics behind it to configure it, and secondly, Single sign-on with Citrix's own applications, like XenApp and XenDesktop.

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Buyer's Guide
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.