Citrix NetScaler Primary Use Case

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

Citrix ADC is deployed on our VMware cluster. We use Citrix ADC for Virtual Virtual Desktop Infrastructure(VDI), load balancing, and SSL offloading.

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

We use it for load balancing, creating a gateway to the Internet, and establishing a remote VPN connection.

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

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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March 2024
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RH
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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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it_user1295586 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Citrix Engineer at Troye

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

We're using NetScaler for compression and optimization features.

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Retief Zietsman - PeerSpot reviewer
Citricx solution achitecht at Troye

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.

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

We used it mainly for GSLB (Global Server Load Balancing). It was the intelligent DNS service.

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VivekKumar10 - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Founder at Virajo

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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RB
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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ZA
IT Account Manager at Dis Group

My clients use it for load balancing. 

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it_user1226787 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager at Vodafone

We deploy it for enterprise customers and some schools that are located in Denmark.

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FM
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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LD
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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PL
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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MH
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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PK
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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VA
IT Infrastructure Analyst at WEG

Our primary use case is the hosting and delivering of web applications.

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

I use the solution for its access gateway and endpoint management features to balance services.

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PL
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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KM
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.

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

We mostly use VPN and enroll the NetScaler.

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AM
System Engeneer at CROC

Citrix ADC is primarily used for load balancing exchange and other internal IT systems.

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

It is mainly used for virtual desktop delivery for remote access. We are also using it for load balancing and SSL VPN.

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

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.

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

We solely use this solution for Citrix remote access.

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UzochikwaEnunwa - PeerSpot reviewer
Enterprise architect at Kyndryl

We use it for our clients' the desktops for their virtual machines.

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CP
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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JL
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.

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Rajnish Niraj - PeerSpot reviewer
Founder at Fencesense

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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AC
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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EC
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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FZ
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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DD
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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MD
Founder at ASSISTA

We are using Citrix ADC for SSL offloads and security, secure remote access, loads balancing, and application firewall, web application firewall.

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

My primary use case is for disaster recovery.

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

We use it for load balancing.

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MB
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. 

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

We primarily use it for load balancers. 

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SB
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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CM
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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MR
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.

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

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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JB
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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OK
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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JC
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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BS
Solution consultant at Demsistem Bilgi ve Teknolojileri Ltd. Sti.

Internal Load Balancing and Content switching features are the main reasons for selecting this product.

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it_user848784 - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution Architect with 10,001+ employees

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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YU
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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JH
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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OA
Solution Architect at ReDoy Corporation

We primarily use the solution for network load balancing on the edge of the network. 

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MA
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. 

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it_user858369 - PeerSpot reviewer
Assistant Vice President at Nagarro

Our primary use case for the product is server load balancing, specifically the application level.

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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.

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

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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JH
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.

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

Provides secure remote access to, as well as intelligent load-balancing for, internal resources.

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it_user872688 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of IT Infrastructure at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
  • Load balancing
  • Application gateway
  • SSL offloading
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PM
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.

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it_user873411 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Consultant at a tech services company

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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TZ
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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KM
Technical Support Engineer at Greenware Technologies LLC

We are using this Citrix ADC with Windows Applications and desktop delivery.

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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.