We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Citrix NetScaler based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about F5, Citrix, HAProxy and others in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)."Akamai is easy to use and very effective."
"The solution can scale."
"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."
"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."
"The load balancing feature of this solution is very good."
"The solution is easy to work with and manage."
"The maintenance of the solution is not complex."
"The web application firewalling component is a powerful feature."
"The GSLB feature allows us to move services between data centers. We can do this in either a planned or unplanned manner. We have experienced service provider outages at our primary data center and GSLB will kick in to automatically modify DNS records to point to a secondary data center (active/passive). We also make use of GeoIP information to point clients to the closest data center for accessing applications."
"The product must provide more flexibility."
"I feel that Citrix NetScaler's customer support needs to improve."
"This is an expensive solution."
"Its GUI should be improved. Its CLI is powerful, but GUI needs more features."
"The product provides some templates to integrate with applications like MS Exchange, MS SharePoint, SAP Enterprise Portal, and others. However, the last update for these templates was 2013 (lots of applications are running on versions newer then 2013)."
"Native integration needs to be improved. You cannot build ISE codes natively. For DevOps, integration would be very helpful because it would be a lot simpler from an operational standpoint."
"Overall the price of Citrix ADC could be more competitive."
"We would like the licensing model for this product to be improved, as it isn't currently very transparent. There isn't a standard package available, and each extra feature creates an additional cost."
"Finding relevant documentation for learning NetScaler can be challenging, especially for beginners who prefer a web interface over command-line interfaces."
Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Citrix NetScaler is ranked 2nd in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 85 reviews. Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Citrix NetScaler is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Akamai Ion writes "Helps optimize the content delivery network, but doesn’t provide much flexibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Citrix NetScaler writes "Simple implementation, reliable, and good dashboards". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus and HAProxy, whereas Citrix NetScaler is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Microsoft Azure Application Gateway, Fortinet FortiADC, HAProxy and Loadbalancer.org.
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