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We performed a comparison between Akamai Ion and Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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"Akamai is easy to use and very effective."

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"The most valuable aspect of this solution is that it is simple to deploy. The deployment took us ten minutes."

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"The product must provide more flexibility."

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"In terms of what needs improvement, the price could be lowered. We've tried to deploy more of them but our purchasing department has said that they're way too expensive and they would prefer to use something else."

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Top Answer:Akamai is easy to use and very effective.
Top Answer:I rate the pricing a four out of ten. The tool is expensive. The pricing must be optimized.
Top Answer:The product must provide more flexibility. There are not too many permutations and combinations that we could do using Ion. The product used to provide Image Compression before. It is not a bundled… more »
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Pulse vWAF, Pulse Virtual Traffic Manager
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Overview

Ion, Akamai’s flagship performance solution, is a suite of intelligent performance optimizations and controls that helps deliver superior web, iOS, and Android app experiences. Built on the SLA-backed availability of the globally distributed Akamai Intelligent Edge Platform, Ion continuously monitors real user behavior — applying best-practice performance optimizations automatically — and adapting in real time to content, user behavior, and connectivity changes.

Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall delivers scalable application security for off-the-shelf and custom applications, including third-party frameworks. Apply business rules to online traffic, inspect and block attacks such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting (XSS), and filter outgoing traffic and data to mask credit card data. Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall helps achieve compliance with PCI-DSS requirements.

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Akamai Ion is ranked 15th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 1 review while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is ranked 18th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC). Akamai Ion is rated 7.0, while Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is rated 9.0. 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 Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall writes "Good feature set and is simple to deploy ". Akamai Ion is most compared with NGINX Plus, whereas Ivanti Virtual Web Application Firewall is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), NGINX Plus, Citrix NetScaler, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and HAProxy.

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