We performed a comparison between Citrix Gateway and Hillstone E-Series based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two SSL VPN solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It's an ideal gateway solution for small and medium businesses, i.e., around 300 devices can be easily handled."
"The solution has good performance."
"The solution is scalable and can go from a very small deployment to handling 10,000 transactions a second."
"The solution is stable."
"The features that we have found most valuable are the web app support and VPN."
"The product enables us to collect logs from the systems."
"The technical support is very responsive and fast"
"What I find most valuable about this solution, is that it runs seamlessly."
"It is easy to set up and is stable. It is scalable as well, depending on the model."
"It's easy to use. Also, the deployment part is perfect."
"Working with the Hillstone E-Series has, from a remote perspective, allowed me to give my clients a secure connectivity."
"The initial setup was straightforward. It only took a few hours to deploy."
"This solution has two main features that we find very valuable; a threat-intelligence option, and a web/application filtering option. The technical support team are very good and very quick."
"The most valuable features of the Hillstone E-Series are its hardware capacity, innovation, and the throughput that the hardware can take."
"The most valuable feature of the Hillstone E-Series is its user-friendliness."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The installation is easy, we have not had any complaints from our customers."
"Five out of five ROI."
"There must be a more easy-to-use GUI."
"Technical support could be improved."
"As Citrix Gateway is a third party solution, we wish to have one which is more integrated and involves less administration."
"It would be nice if they offered easier setups and implementation wizards."
"I would like to see improved logging because it doesn't keep much information for the session monitoring or historical sessions."
"The product should be more secure."
"The major issue is price. I would also like them to make other aspects more accessible."
"Citrix Gateway could improve the speed of the VPN. I sometimes have to wait for 10 to 15 minutes to get connected and other times when I am connected I have to abort, and reconnect."
"The tool must provide better integration and connectivity."
"The current usage reporting is very basic."
"Having frequent live webinars on a monthly basis would really help."
"Support from Hillstone E-Series has a shortcoming that needs improvement."
"SSL VPN license cost is not cheap."
"The tool provides just a general report. It does not provide a granular report. Hence, the tool should work on its reporting feature."
"I am not sure if this solution offers active directory integration. Adding that feature will definitely be an advantage."
"The solution doesn't have a web proxy built into the system like Sophos. This is something they should work to change."
"The tool needs to improve its price."
Citrix Gateway is ranked 2nd in SSL VPN with 33 reviews while Hillstone E-Series is ranked 8th in SSL VPN with 9 reviews. Citrix Gateway is rated 8.2, while Hillstone E-Series is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Citrix Gateway writes "Provided the ability for remote work during the pandemic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Hillstone E-Series writes "A user-friendly and marketable solution with a virtual switching capability". Citrix Gateway is most compared with F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), Fortinet FortiClient, Prisma Access by Palo Alto Networks, Ivanti Connect Secure and Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, whereas Hillstone E-Series is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate, Palo Alto Networks NG Firewalls, Sophos XG, OpenVPN Access Server and Netgate pfSense. See our Citrix Gateway vs. Hillstone E-Series report.
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