We performed a comparison between Barracuda Load Balancer ADC and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The price is very good, and it's not very expensive."
"Barracuda's technical support is good - whenever we have an issue, they immediately connect and resolve it."
"F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is very easy to use, from SSL Management to enabling, disabling loads, applications, systems, and monitoring. Overall the solution keeps our application functional from a client's perspective 24 hours a day, seven days a week."
"We use F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager to balance traffic."
"We like is how they integrate nicely with the Oracle PeopleSoft application."
"You can create multiple virtual servers on F5 BIG-IP technology, and within multiple virtual servers you can have multiple nodes, where a node equals two application servers."
"It has made it a single entry point for all users, verging across all the VPCs. It is more of an SSO solution versus multitier user loggin."
"It helps us recognize sessions from certain IPs that are authorized to manage the application. This is a function we haven't found anywhere else."
"Secure and scalable traffic management solution for applications. Good for bigger environments."
"The F5 interface is easy to use."
"Load Balancer ADC is competitively priced, but it's not feature-rich, and its technology is not that advanced."
"The quality of the solution's performance could be improved."
"Technical support is somewhat slow and could be improved."
"The user interface could be improved in F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager."
"The UI could be improved."
"For a future release, I would like to see more features in the cloud."
"The product is expensive."
"It would possibly help to get more training, even better in local languages."
"F5 could improve the rule-setting capabilities in the GUI, and they need to simplify web management. For example, the menus in the Citrix GUI are easier to navigate, with a clean structure and layout."
"One area for improvement with F5 BIG-IP LTM could be its pricing, which some may find on the higher side."
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Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is ranked 14th in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 3 reviews while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is ranked 1st in Application Delivery Controllers (ADC) with 116 reviews. Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is rated 7.4, while F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Barracuda Load Balancer ADC writes "Cost-effective but lacking features and integration". On the other hand, the top reviewer of F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) writes "Helps deliver applications to users in a reliable, secure, and optimized way". Barracuda Load Balancer ADC is most compared with Fortinet FortiADC, Citrix NetScaler, Kemp LoadMaster and HAProxy, whereas F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) is most compared with Citrix NetScaler, Fortinet FortiADC, Microsoft Azure Application Gateway and NGINX Plus. See our Barracuda Load Balancer ADC vs. F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) report.
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